Total nuclear disarmament: ethical and moral issues

Moral and ethical issues in geriatric surgery.

After preliminary definitions, the ethical questions arising particularly in the field of geriatric surgery are examined. The author finds no ethical justification for bias against the elderly patient as such in the allocation of scarce medical resources, nor for ignoring or overriding his wishes in respect of treatment; solutions must be based on the circumstances of the individual case. Crite...

Verifying Nuclear Disarmament

Commentators differ on whether nuclear disarmament would be desirable, but many argue that disarmament is impractical because it could not be verified. Three reasons are often offered for such pessimism. First, nuclear weapons are small and difficult to detect, and one could not be sure that a few weapons had not been hidden away. Second, nuclear weapons are so destructive that a mere handful w...

The Non-Aligned Movement and Nuclear Disarmament: Stance and Actions

The emergence of nuclear weapons as a new actor in international relations has introduced a new area in the international security arena. Since the appearance of these weapons, there have been increasing efforts to limit and destroy them in order to achieve global peace in the framework of disarmament and centered around the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Along with the eme...

Ethical, moral, and legal issues in speech and language pathology.

The Prospects for Global Nuclear Disarmament

Predicting the future can be a risky business, but predicting the future of nuclear disarmament is especially difficult, linked as it is to the core security concerns of very powerful countries. Not only is the subject imperfectly defined but it is constantly evolving under the influence of forces that are too numerous and too complex to allow for any confident projections. Yet because the issu...