Total War and Limited Government: The German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
The chapter recovers the debate among German Catholics over North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO’s) introduction of tactical nuclear weapons into the new West German army (Bundeswehr). Young Catholic scholars Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and Robert Spaemann forcefully opposed nuclear weaponry in d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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| In: |
Theology and World Politics
Year: 2020, Pages: 237-263 |
| Further subjects: | B
Apocalypse
B Papacy B Just-war doctrine B Nuclear Weapons B Eschatology |
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