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Forbidden
Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation
of Nuclear Weapons
Drew Christiansen, SJ, and Carole Sargent, Editors
Georgetown University Press / Washington, DC
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Title: Forbidden : receiving Pope Francis’s condemnation of nuclear weapons /
Drew Christiansen, SJ and Carole Sargent, editors.
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Dedicated to the Holy Father, Pope Francis
Rev. Drew Christiansen, SJ, 1945–2022,
in memoriam
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Drew Christiansen, SJ
PART I. How We Got Here
1 From Deterrence to Abolition: The Evolution
of Roman Catholic Nuclear Ethics 31
William Werpehowski
2 Just War Lessons We Should Remember 37
Tobias Winright
3 Philosophical Debate on Nuclear Deterrence 47
Gregory M. Reichberg
4 The Moral Ecology of Deterrence and Abolition 59
William Barbieri
PART II. Witnesses
5 Nuclear Realists 69
David Cortright
6 The Testimony of Witnesses 76
Daniel Hall
7 Swords into Plowshares 90
Carole Sargent
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PART III. Toward a World without Nuclear Weapons
8 National Attitudes toward Nuclear Deterrence 105
James E. Goodby
9 6 + 6 = 9: Law and Nuclear Weapons 119
David A. Koplow
10 Abolition in the Context of General Disarmament 128
Pierce S. Corden
11 New Models: Building Capacities for Nuclear Cooperation 136
Richard A. Love
12 Nuclear Abolition and Global Human Needs 146
Lawrence J. Korb
PART IV. Evolution of Just War
13 Nuclear Disarmament: Ethical Challenges at or Near Zero 153
Gerard F. Powers
14 Just Peace and Nuclear Disarmament 172
Maryann Cusimano Love
15 Peacebuilding and Nuclear Deterrence 180
Daniel Philpott
16 Prophetic Indictment or Deliberative Discussion? 193
Bernard G. Prusak
PART V. Conscience Formation
17 Formation of Conscience Regarding the Development,
Possession, and Use of Nuclear Weapons 205
Margaret R. Pfeil
18 Catholic Conscience and Nuclear Weapons 220
Joseph J. Fahey
19 The Conundrum of Deterrence: A Practical
Christian Response 229
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Contents ix
20 Pastoral Accompaniment: Pope Francis’s Approach
to the Human Vocation 238
Drew Christiansen, SJ
PART VI. Moral Education
21 Reviving Disarmament Education 251
Kelsey Davenport
22 The Nuclear History Boot Camp 263
David Holloway
23 Propaganda for Peace: Memes, Mass Moralizing,
and a World Free of Nuclear Weapons 269
Theodore G. Dedon
24 A World without Nuclear Weapons: Imagine It One Step
at a Time 278
John Paul Lederach
PART VII. Responsible Actors
25 The Ethics of Nuclear Stewards 287
Maryann Cusimano Love
26 In the Chain of Command 297
Drew Christiansen, SJ
27 Profiting from the Bomb 314
Susi Snyder
28 The Condemnation of the Possession, Threat of Use,
and Use of Nuclear Weapons: Reflections for Scientists
and Technologists 318
Pierce S. Corden
29 Morality Matters: A Parliamentarian Reflects
on Nuclear Disarmament 328
David Lammy
30 The Ethics of Manufacturing Nuclear Weapons 334
Ramón Luzárraga
