Morte nell'era nucleare. Il realismo politico di fronte alla bomba atomica

This volume addresses one of the most profound and complex challenges of the contemporary era: the impact of nuclear technology on international politics and human life. The writings of Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans J. Morgenthau—some of which were composed shortly after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and are translated into Italian for the first time—highlight the need for a new ethic in international relations, one that reconciles national interests with global balance. They examine the nature of power in a nuclear world and the difficulty of creating an effective world order, hindered by mutual distrust and cultural divergences. From an existential perspective as well, nuclear destruction represents an unprecedented development in human history, overturning the very meaning of life and death and rendering both society and history impossible. Today, in a condition of international (dis)order in which the possibility of resorting to nuclear weapons is increasingly invoked, these pages remind us that technological advancement does not necessarily equate to moral progress. In the face of the risk of self-destruction, the need for a responsible and pragmatic approach to international relations becomes ever more urgent.