Jeff McMahan

Jeff McMahan a research student at St John’s College, Cambridge, is the author of British Nuclear Weapons: For and Against.

Letter

Big enough to deter

15 April 1982

SIR: Lord Zuckerman’s reply to my review (Letters, 6 May) unfortunately shares the faults of his book: his comments are both confused and inconsistent. He first criticises me for suggesting that his notion of minimal deterrence implies ‘an “absolute" measure of the size of a nuclear arsenal’ – meaning, I suppose, an absolute measure of what size a nuclear arsenal ought to be. He then suggests...

Pieces about Jeff McMahan in the LRB

Fearful Thoughts: Morality by Numbers

Stephen Mulhall, 22 August 2002

Two-thirds of the way through this dense, involved and exhausting book, its author acknowledges that his views about the nature of persons have the following implication. Suppose that a woman,...

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Nuclear Argument

Keith Kyle, 18 April 1985

‘It’s not that Ronald Reagan hasn’t got any ideas of his own,’ an American who held high office in the Pentagon under Jimmy Carter remarked recently. ‘The trouble is...

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