ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union can charge immorality if the US population is a casualty of a second strike because there is popular complicity in allowing the first strike to take place. Ideological considerations enter where the issue should be a scientific matter—for example, govemmental discussions about whether the United States could survive a first strike. Often the moral dilemma is raised in terms of a US response to a first strike, on the assumption that the Soviet Union already has struck. The book shows clearly that issues of foreign policy cannot be insulated within purely political considerations but are entangled with moral considerations throughout. Pacifist theory has made a great deal of the likelihood of emerging moral forces.
