Will Inboden on Nukes & Christian Ethics

By Mark Tooley on June 1, 2020

William Inboden directs the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas in Austin and served on the National Security Council staff under President George W. Bush. He’s co-authored an upcoming article for Providence in which he defends nuclear deterrence against a growing chorus of Christian critics demanding a nuclear free world. Here I interview him about the Christian Just War tradition, nuclear weapons, trends towards pacifism, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Ramsey and other weighty topics. Inboden is a sharp strategic thinker with theological heft. Enjoy our talk!

Nuclear Weapons

Mark Tooley is IRD’s president and editor of IRD’s foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining the IRD in 1994, Mark worked eight years for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and is a native of Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of Taking Back The United Methodist Church, published in 2008; Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century, published in 2012; and The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War, published in 2015.

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