Objections to Nuclear Defence: Philosophers on Deterrence by Nigel Blake & Kay Pole

Author:Nigel Blake & Kay Pole [Blake, Nigel & Pole, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780710202499
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Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Published: 1984-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 See, for example, the report issued by the medical group at the 30th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (1981), or that of the first Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (reported in the Lancet, 4 April 1981). See also bibliography given in note 6.

2 Apocalyptic warnings from (among others), Dwight Eisenhower, Henry Kissinger and officials of the Kremlin are cited in Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, Picador, London, 1982, p. 6.

3 This was postponed because of lack of support from local authorities.

4 Prepared under the last Labour government, this was first made available to the public in 1980.

5 For example in Philip Bolsover, Civil Defence – the cruellest confidence trick (London, CND, 1980) and in Facts Against the Bomb (Nottingham CND). More detailed assessment of the value of government recommendations is to be found in: Peter Goodwin, Nuclear War, The Facts, Macmillan, London, 1981, Chs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and in Drs P. Rogers, M. Dando and F. Van den Dungen, As Lambs to the Slaughter, Arrow, London, 1981, Chs. 6, 7, 8. See also A. Tucker and J. Gleisner, Crucible of Despair, the Effects of Nuclear War, Menard Press, London, 1981.

6 See Peter Goodwin, op. cit.; cf. Drs P. Rogers, M. Dando and F. Van den Dungen, op. cit., ch. 6. The official US studies are to be found in: The Effects of Nuclear War, 1979, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States (published by Croom Helm, London, 1980). More information is to be had in S. Glasstone and PJ. Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, US Dept of Defense and Dept of Energy (published by Castle House, Tunbridge Wells, 1979).

7 This is in contrast to the rather more Rousseauesque conception encouraged by certain elements in the private shelter business – who would cast survivors in the role of noble savages who had lost their civilization only to discover their true resources as natural men and women.

8 These are circulars distributed by the Home Office over the last decade. They instruct officials on what to expect in the event of nuclear attack on Britain, and on the plans they should make for such an eventuality. They have recently been publicized in the press and the information they contain has become more generally available.

9 See Home Office circulars ES 3/1973 and ES 10/1974 – cited in Dr P. Rogers et al., op. cit., pp. 160–1.

10 For a fuller account see A. Tucker and J. Gleisner, op. cit., pp. 24–5.

11 See Dr P. Rogers et al., op. cit., p. 175.

12 Ibid., p. 171.

13 In following C.B. MacPherson here (see The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Hobbes to Locke, Oxford University Press, 1962) I do of course recognize that I am adopting a controversial interpretation of the work of Hobbes and Locke.

14 Lucien S&ve, Man in Marxist Theory, Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1979, p. 234, cf. p. 171 ff.

15 I draw my information here from a report in the Guardian (29 March 1982) of material that had been classified for 23 years and was made public in 1982.

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