nuclear weapons
Mainliners’ wrongheaded push for American disarmament
By Mark Tooley — February 13, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Now, as during the Cold War, church groups pushing American disarmament as key to world peace rely on assumptions and proposals that are utopian and dangerous.
Faith bodies must affirm opposition to nuclear war
By Chuck Currie — January 31, 2018
(RNS) — God’s creation is at stake.
We must save ourselves from the abyss
By Martin E. Marty — June 14, 2017
Many religious leaders, groups, institutions, and forces-for-good observe all this, and often speak out, but can usually produce only barely noticed whispers of criticism. Lewis warns that, meanwhile, we are confronted by weapons that offer us the ability to destroy ourselves, a shared hazard for which our social mechanisms for managing large-scale violence are dangerously ill suited.
Pope backs nuclear weapons ban treaty
By Josephine McKenna — March 28, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pontiff spoke as talks on a proposed global nuclear arms ban at the United Nations seem doomed to fail with the U.S., France, Britain and South Korea among nearly 40 countries boycotting the talks.
Religious Americans should take up Obama’s call for a moral awakening
By Jacob Lupfer — May 27, 2016
(RNS) The first visit of an American president to Hiroshima occasions a broader and ongoing debate about the ethics and strategic value of nuclear weapons.
EXCLUSIVE: 340 US rabbis: ‘We support this historic nuclear accord’ (COMMENTARY)
By Rabbi Steven Bob — August 17, 2015
(RNS) We, along with many other Jewish leaders, support this historic nuclear accord by the world’s most powerful nations and believe it is our best hope of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran.
Pope Francis on the anniversary of the bomb: ‘A lasting warning to humanity’
By Rosie Scammell — August 9, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Francis recalled the “horror and repulsion” aroused by the twin bombings of Nagasaki on Aug. 9 1945, and Hiroshima, three days earlier.
I heard about the Iran deal while visiting a Nazi death camp (COMMENTARY)
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 20, 2015
(RNS) Why should the Jews, of all minority groups in our culture, be begrudged the emotional space in the public arena to speak of their legitimate fears?
Children of Holocaust survivors more anxious about Iran nuclear threat
By Michele Chabin — April 14, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) Second-generation survivors “exhibit greater preoccupation with the Iranian nuclear threat” than others in their peer group.
Americans of faith must reconsider stands on nuclear weapons (COMMENTARY)
By Jacob Lupfer — March 16, 2015
(RNS) The global concern about the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons invites Americans of faith to engage a vital issue after years of complacency.
84-year-old nun gets 35 months for breaking into nuclear facility
By Amanda Murphy — February 18, 2014
(RNS) An 84-year-old nun gets nearly three years in prison for breaking into a federal nuclear facility as the judge explains that no one is above the law.
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