ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to develop the global nuclear balance is characterized by strategic parity or essential equivalence, rather than meaningful superiority by either side. The most troubling dimension to the human conscience is obviously the difficulty of moral justification. There are several strands in the more fabric. First, nuclear deterrence openly contemplates - indeed must be directly based on - the deliberate killing of people in the millions. Second, most of the people killed would be innocent noncombatants. Third, the only goal of nuclear retaliation when deterrence has failed would be revenge. The Catholic Bishops in 1983 similarly qualified acceptance of nuclear deterrence as a necessary evil with significant conditions. The value of arms control agreements can be measured against three criteria of stability: deterrence stability; crisis stability; and arms race stability. Arms control measures can contribute to peace and security in many different ways.
