Moral and morale benefits of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Student report

Technical Report · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5192548

Poston, J R

This writer finds strategic defense a moral advance over the present nuclear deterrence policy as well as a probable boost to national and military morale because of the broad-based popular support attendant to the inherent moral suasion. Popular support is nearly inevitable because of the moral superiority of strategic defense over nuclear retaliation, as well as the sheer compulsion of common sense about a protective defense. Criticism of the SDI abounds, but not without adequate answers from proponents. One of the best morale-building supports for those experiencing mixed moral feelings about nuclear deterrence is that strategic defense avoids or points to a way out of the moral problems facing nuclear deterrence and its grim companion--nuclear retaliation.

• Research Organization: Air Command and Staff Coll., Maxwell AFB, AL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5192548
• Report Number(s): AD-A-169298/7/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290600 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Nuclear Energy
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990100* -- Management
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
ETHICAL ASPECTS
MILITARY STRATEGY
NATIONAL DEFENSE
NUCLEAR DETERRENCE
PUBLIC OPINION