Ethics and weapons of mass destruction : religious and secular perspectives / edited by Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Weapons of mass destruction : a brief overview / Susan B. Martin -- The international law concerning weapons of mass destruction / Paul C. Szasz -- Realist perspectives on ethical norms and weapons of mass destruction / Scott D. Sagan -- Realism and weapons of mass destruction : a consequentialist analysis / Susan B. Martin -- Natural law and weapons of mass destruction / C.A.J. Coady -- War and indeterminancy in natural law thinking / John Langan -- Liberalism : the impossibility of justifying weapons of mass destruction / Henry Shue -- A liberal perspective on deterrence and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction / Michael Walzer -- Christianity and weapons of mass destruction / Nigel Biggar -- Christian apocalypticism and weapons of mass destruction / Martin L. Cook -- Buddhist perspectives on weapons of mass destruction / David W. Chappell -- Buddhism and weapons of mass destruction : an oxymoron? / Donald K. Swearer -- Confucianism and weapons of mass destruction / Julia Ching -- "Heaven's mandate" and the concept of war in early Confucianism / Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Hinduism and the ethics of weapons of mass destruction / Katherine K. Young -- Hinduism and weapons of mass destruction : pacifist, prudential, and political / Kanti Bajpai -- Islamic ethics and weapons of mass destruction : an argument for nonproliferation / Sohail H. Hashmi -- "Do not violate the limit" : three issues in Islamic thinking on weapons of mass destruction / John Kelsay -- Judaism, war, and weapons of mass destruction / Reuven Kimelman -- Between the Bible and the Holocaust : three sources for Jewish perspectives on mass destruction / Joseph E. David -- A feminist ethical perspective on weapons of mass destruction / Carol Cohn, Sara Ruddick -- A pragmatist feminist approach to the ethics of weapons of mass destruction / Lucinda Joy Peach -- Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction / Robert L. Holmes -- Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction : the challenge of peace / Duane L. Cady -- Weapons of mass destruction and the limits of moral understanding : a comparative essay / Steven P. Lee.