Dealing with the Nuclear Threat

The response of Jean L. Cohen and Erazim Kohák are, for the most part, polemical. I have no wish to defend my views against polemical attack, or to answer an attack with an attack. Cohen’s response does, however, raise some serious questions, and I would like to comment briefly on two of them.

Cohen says, “it may not be obvious,” but it is an inevitable and only thinly disguised trend of Kateb’s argument that he is advocating unilateral disarmament.” I do...