The Center for Global Security Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has just published a new volume of  essays discussing the morality and ethics of nuclear weapons and deterrence: Morality and Nuclear Weapons: Practitioner Perspectives, edited by Brad Roberts.  Dr. Ford's contribution to that volume – a chapter entitled “Nuclear Weapons Ethics and a Critique of the ‘Strong Case’ for Disarmament” – appears on pages 64-83.  You can find the entire book on CGSR's website here, or by using the button below to download a PDF of Dr. Ford's chapter.

From page 65:

“As my contribution to this volume, I will ... offer an outline of the most emphatic possible case that I believe can be made for the abolition of nuclear weapons. I will then examine the assumptions upon which the elements of that argument are premised—assessing their relative strengths and weaknesses—before offering my own thoughts about how to approach these ethical debates and to think morally about nuclear weaponry.”