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Full Idea
Nuclear weapons are not designed for war at all. …They explode the idea of a just war. They are the first technological innovations that are simply not encompassable within the familiar moral world.
Gist of Idea
Nuclear bombs are not for normal war; they undermine the 'just war', with a new morality
Source
Michael Walzer (Just and Unjust Wars [1977], 17)
Book Ref
Walzer,Michael: 'Just and Unjust Wars' [Penguin 1984], p.281
A Reaction
A nuclear war can hardly lead to normal victory, if it destroys the thing you are trying to conquer. It is like bringing a machine gun to a boxing match.