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Reexamining the Ethics of Nuclear Technology

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2014
This article analyzes the present status, development trends, and problems in the ethics of nuclear technology in light of a possible revision of its conceptual foundations. First, to better recognize the current state of nuclear technology ethics and related problems, this article focuses on presenting a picture of the evolution of the concepts and ...
Andrei, Andrianov, Victor, Kanke, Ilya, Kuptsov, Viktor, Murogov   +3 more
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Ethics of nuclear decommissioning

Energy Policy, 1992
Abstract What to do with the numerous reactors that reach the end of their operating lives over the next 30 years involves ethical issues of an intergenerational kind. This essay examines various nuclear decommissioning options in the light of the ethical issues. Prompt dismantlement seems preferable to other options involving postponed dismantlement,
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Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy

International Journal, 1988
There is no shortage of questions about nuclear weapons and nuclear war-or of responses and answers from strategists, politicians, philosophers, and concerned citizens. There is a noticeable lack of consensus among these groups-especially between strategists and philosophers.
Roger Hutchinson, Russell Hardin, John L. Mearsheimer, Gerald Dworkin, Robert E. Goodin   +4 more
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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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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 Using literary and historical references, the writers argue for greater participation by civil engineers in the social issues of our time.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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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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Nuclear Weapons and Christian Ethics

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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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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The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

2015
Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international
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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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