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Security
How can we provide security?
Challenge: War is inevitable..
Nuclear Strategies
Deterrence - The attempt to prevent a nuclear attack by threatening the other side with destruction which would result in mutual assured destruction if a nuclear war begins.
Counter-value (or counter-population) weapons are weapons that can destroy population centers and other targets of value.
Strategic Defense Initiative - As first presented by Ronald Reagan, this is an attempt to have a shield that could stop all missiles launched against the United States. Now advocates of this program only claim that it would stop most missiles.
Counter-force weapons are weapons that can destroy the other side's weapons such as missiles.
Just War Theory says that a war is just if and only if the war is waged using proportional force so that no more force is applied than is needed to achieve the objective, and also that force is applied against combatants with non-combatants left free from harm.
The moral dimension Proponents of the Strategic Defense initiative believe that mutual assured destruction is wrong and that SDI is superior according to just war theory.
Cost Effectiveness as a test for SDI means that if an enemy can counteract SDI (with cheap decoy missiles, etc.) more cheaply than we can enhance SDI, then SDI is not cost effective.
Affordability of SDI means that the cost of developing and installing the SDI system cannot be prohibitive.
World Federalism argues that the problem of security can only be resolved by replacing the war system with a system of enforced international law that is limited to settling conflicts between nations.
How can we protect the environment? Challenge: We cannot protect the environment.
World Order Issues
1. How can we convene a world constitutional convention?
2. What should the world constitution state?
3. What human rights should be recognized and protected?
4. When can nations intervene in affairs of other nations?
5. When can one state justify force against another state?
6. Is there an international authority?
7. What are the limits of an international authority?
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