ABSTRACT
In 1973 the strategist and by now estranged member of the ‘nuclear priesthood’ Bernard Brodie wrote in his War and Politics:
the morality or immorality of acts of war is not a popular subject among the military and their civilian associates, nor for that matter among writers on strategy. It makes the military uneasy and defensive, ready to dismiss the troubling issue whenever it arises, either by asserting its irrelevancy or by falling back on some convenient sophistry.
