Word: conceptions
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...paradoxes of modern thought that all of the advances that have made internal states more describable...have at the same time cast doubt on the concept of an essential self, and even on its usefulness as a legal fiction...
Dyson carefully reviews the possible ways to avoid nuclear war, all the time stressing that we must identify a workable concept to guide our efforts and stay with it. American military wavering since World War II between the doctrines of Mutual Assured Destruction and of Limited Nuclear War has produced a policy which is at once both unreliable and dangerously unstable. After noting the advantages and problems of each possibility, such as Counterforce (the current Soviet policy) and Non-violent Resistance, Dyson advocates a concept known technically as Parity Plus Damage-Limiting. This doctrine, which Dyson prefers to call "Live...
There has been widespread endorsement of "no-first-use", "non-use" and the analogous concept of nuclear free zones, most particularly by the non-nuclear nations. India's Indira Gandhi and Canada's Pierre Trudcau have made impassioned pleas for declarations of restraint by the nuclear powers. Pope John Paul II has echoed these sentiments...
...policy. As recently as March 1984 Moscow has reiterated this pledge and hinted broadly that a similar declaration by the US would bring it back to the negotiating table. To date, both the US and us fellow Western nuclear powers, the UK and France have declined to endorse the concept even in principle or as a declared objective...
...commitment to NATO for example--the principle, which has been advocated by a series of distinguished Americans, is deserving of greater attention by Washington. As a first step, it would make eminent sense for the US to confer with the PRC on ways in which its "no first use" concept to the security of ourselves or other nations...