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P.D. 59: New Issue in an Old Argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

J. Bryan Hehir
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My task is to comment on the political, strategic, and moral implications of P.D. 59, the presidential directive on U.S. nuclear strategy and targeting policy revealed in the media in August. The commentary is of necessity preliminary and tentative, since no document or position paper has been made available to the public to spell out the contents of P.D. 59. The most authoritative text we have is a major speech by Secretary of Defense Harold Brown on August 20 explaining the rationale of the new directive.

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Worldview , Volume 23 , Issue 11 , November 1980 , pp. 10 - 12
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1980

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