Nuclear weapons are extremely dangerous, not just for the people being targeted but for all mankind. If I had my way they'd never be used. And I want to respect

Nuclear weapons are extremely dangerous, not just for the people being targeted but for all mankind. If I had my way they'd never be used. And I want to respect this author's opinion -- after all, they wrote a book about it, and they've been kind enough to write an article. Having said that, this article reminds me of somebody trying hard to work a problem, giving up, then saying the problem is stupid. That is, trying to work out moral agency in a world where one person can kill hundreds of millions of others, the author (and those like him), give up and pronounce the question wrong -- that is, we should not live in such a world. Well, that's fine and dandy, but that's the world we live in. So I think we can take "no person should be able to order a nuclear counterstrike" off the table right away. The author doesn't have much to say except running out of gas from waving their arms around so much. This is unfortunate, because we live in a world where more and more individuals have the capability to kill huge numbers of people. Trying to limit the discussion to nuclear weapons does the entire topic a severe injustice. (Though it might sell some more books. Hard to say.) And then effectively giving up and saying that the world we live in shouldn't be like it is does the entire topic disservice.