The Nuclear Dilemma: The Greatest Moral Problem of All Time
Eighth Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture
Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture Series (1981-2006)
May 12, 1988
| Theodore J. Hesburgh |
| The Nuclear Dilemma: The Greatest Moral Problem of All Time |
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Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of Notre Dame University, argues that because nuclear weapons negate the key just-war principles of discrimination (not killing innocent civilians) and proportionality (not using force of greater magnitude than the good to be achieved in justifiable defense), they remain “the greatest moral challenge of all time.”
Lamenting the nuclear weapons race between the United States and the Soviet Union, he proposes practical steps towards reducing the nuclear arsenal.
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