David Attwood

David Attwood is a retired Church of England clergyman, living in Hastings. From 1977-1985 and 1997-2012 he worked in parishes. Between 1985 and 1997 he lectured in Christian Ethics at Trinity College Bristol. He studied for a PhD on the ethics of Paul Ramsey, when he had to engage carefully with the moral conundrums of nuclear deterrence. He now enjoys retired life by the seaside, where he fits his concerns for moral issues into an easy life of gardening, modest social and church involvement, reading, TV and family life.

  Five fresh questions about nuclear deterrence

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I recently came across this joke about the nuclear deterrence debate: “it’s like a prehistoric bug trapped in amber: it had obviously been alive once, but it hadn’t moved in millions of years”. This characterisation was offered in 1987 (by Philip Bobbitt in Democracy and Deterrence). Nearly thirty years later, little appears to have changed. … Continue Reading