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Engineers, Ethics, and Nuclear Weapons

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering, 1987
For years, engineers have had the reputation of social myopia, of being competent with technical problems but relatively blind to social concerns. Using literary and historical references, the writers argue for greater participation by civil engineers in the social issues of our time.
Roger J. Evans, Thomas E. Munsey
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Nuclear Weapons and Christian Ethics [PDF]

Security Index: A Russian Journal on International Security, 2007
(2007). Nuclear Weapons and Christian Ethics. Security Index: A Russian Journal on International Security: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 87-110.
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Is Nuclear Deterrence Ethical?

Philosophy, 1986
We are morally perplexed about nuclear weapons. Popular debate oscillates tediously between an apparently impractical idealism which would have nothing to do with the things, and a military and political realism which insists that we have to use such means to attain our legitimate ends. The choice, it too often seems, is between laying down our nuclear
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The Ethics of Nuclear Strategy

2020
The attention that focused on the resumption of strategic arms talks between the United States and the Soviet Union dramatizes the importance to the world community of improved relations between the superpowers. Douglas Lackey’s most endorsement of unilateral nuclear disarmament is based in part upon a comparison of the expected consequences of ...
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Ethical Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence

International Security, 1984
For the first time in the nuclear era, normative and practical issues have become explicitly intertwined in widespread public discussion of deterrence. Previously, “main-stream” strategic analysts typically avoided overt attention to normative questions, preferring to concentrate on the alleged psychological or military foundations of deterrence theory.
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Ethical Choices After a Nuclear Attack

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1989
To the Editor. — In wondering whether our report entitled Selection of Casualties for Treatment After Nuclear Attack was a spoof or a serious exercise in planning, Dr Cassel 1 neglects a third and correct possibility. The report's intention was to stimulate debate by presenting an accurate but provocative account of the ethical choices that would face
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Ontological and Ethical Implications of Direct Nuclear Reprogramming

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2009
Scientific breakthroughs rarely yield the potential to engage a foundational ethical question. Recent studies on direct reprogramming of human skin cells reported by the Yamanaka lab in Japan and the Thomson lab in Wisconsin suggest that scientists may have crossed both a scientific and an ethical threshold.
Gerard Magill, William B. Neaves
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The Ethical Imperatives and Means to Nuclear Peace

Peace Review, 2016
Nuclear weapons were invented to pre-empt Germany, used to defeat Japan, and deployed most extensively against the former Soviet Union.
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An Uncomfortable Responsibility: Ethics and Nuclear Waste

The European Legacy, 2012
This article discusses the ethics of nuclear waste management in terms of the concept of responsibility for the harmful effects of modern technology. At present, the principle that every country and new generation should assume responsibility for the nuclear waste they produce is challenged by a globalised industry and the repositories of nuclear waste
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Mortgaging the future: Dumping ethics with nuclear waste

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2005
On August 22, 2005 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued proposed new regulations for radiation releases from the planned permanent U.S. nuclear-waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The goal of the new standards is to provide public-health protection for the next million years - even though everyone admits that the radioactive wastes ...
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