The moral point of view of humanity and nuclear risk

The purpose of this paper is to interpret and further articulate the nature of a mode of moral thought articulated in the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in response to the existential risk of nuclear conflict, a risk that has been exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine justified by its underlying thinking in the form of the Putin Doctrine, and to suggest the need for and the method of educating global citizens as a way to minimize that risk. The above perspective-taking from the moral point of view of humanity is one of impartiality. As discussed below, impartiality presupposes in turn the recognition of all parties to any moral claim as moral equals and that any claim must be reciprocal in two senses: (1) one party cannot rightly claim for itself what it denies others and (2) all parties affected by the claim have a right of reasonable rejectability.