To base a country's national security on the threat to kill millions of people with nuclear weapons is both a moral and an ethical issue. Browse this section to explore these issues.

Political Perspectives

• Pugwash and the Nuclear Issue, Joseph Rotblat, March 25-27, 2001
• Peace and Security, by Jonathan Granoff, July 2004
• Nuclear Weapons, Ethics, Morals, and Law, by Jonathan Granoff, December 9, 2000
• Statement by Senator Mark O. Hatfield
• The Nuclear Crucible: The Moral and International Law Implications of Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Terrence Edward Paupp
• Toward a Nuclear Weapon Free World: The Need for a New Agenda
• Letter of Protect from Mayor of Hiroshima, March 6, 1998

Military Perspectives

• Joint Statement on Reduction of Nuclear Weapons Arsenals: Declining Utility, Continuing Risks, Generals Lee Butler & Andrew J. Goodpaster
• National Press Club Newsmakers Luncheon Question and Answer Session, General Lee Butler USAF, (ret.) February 2, 1998
• Remarks to the State of the World Forum General Lee Butler, USAF (Ret.), October 3, 1996
• The Risks of Nuclear Deterrence: From Superpowers to Rogue Leaders by General Lee Butler National Press Club, February 2, 1998
• Economic Aspects of Conversion
• Military Leaders on Nuclear Weapons Abolition
• Prepared Remarks to the Olof Palme International Center for Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan, USN (Ret.) Director, Center for Defense Information Stockholm Sweden, 6 March 1997
• Statement on Nuclear Weapons by International Generals and Admirals, December 5, 1996

Religious Perspectives

• Moral/Ethical Considerations: Nuclear Weapons- At What Price?
• A Crime Against God and Humanity, by Douglas Roche, March 2008
• Public Acceptance of Nuclear Power- Some Ethical Issues, The Energy Advisory Group of the Working Committee on Church and Society, World Council of Churches
• 75 US Catholic Bishops Condemn Policy of Nuclear Deterrence June 1998
• William P. Clark to Archbishop Joseph L. Bernadin November 16, 1982
• US Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace May 3, 1983

Scientific Perspectives

• Nuclear Waste and Nuclear Ethics, by Herman Damveld and Robert Jan van den Berg, January 2000
• Ethics of Research on Health Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Activities in the United States, October 27, 2007
• A Model of Thermonuclear Extinction on Planet Mars by Dr. W. Sumner Davis
• The Franck Report June 11, 1945
• Petition to the President of the United States by Scientists at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory July 17, 1945
• The Ethical Dimensions of Deterrence by Sir Joseph Rotblat
• The Russell-Einstein Manifesto July 9, 1955
• Only A Question of Time: Science, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Jennifer Allen Simons
• Open Letter to the UC Community by Armin Tenner, June 18, 2002
• Why I quit my job at LLNL: the truth about the Stockpile Stewardship Program Issac Trotts March 14, 2001
• Broken Moratorium, Editorial in The Hindu, July 5, 1997
• Human Nuclear Experiments, Compiled by Carah Ong