Nuclear deterrence and future generations

Jeff McMahan

In Avner Cohen and Steven Lee (eds.) Nuclear weapons and the future of humanity: The fundamental questions, Totowa, New Jersey, 1986, pp. 319–339

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The excellent quality and depth of the various essays make [the book] an invaluable resource….It is likely to become essential reading in its field.–CHOICE.

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The main reason for thinking that nuclear war would be worse than Soviet domination where future generations are concerned is that nuclear war could lead to the extinction of the human race, and it is considerably more important to ensure that future generations will exist than to ensure that, if they exist, they will not exist under Soviet domination.

Soviet Union · human extinction · nuclear war
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