Nuclear Weapons

Rose Marie Berger 3-19-2008

The genetically hip Bianca Jagger addressed the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's global summit in London last month-challenging Britain to lead the world in dismantling its nukes. "Who's going to give them up first?" she asked.


Of course, spiritual [...]

Douglas Roche 3-01-2008

The United States still worships at the altar of nuclear weapons - yet cries 'heresy' when others want to join the sect.

Douglas Roche 3-01-2008

Religious leaders condemn nuclear weapons.

Jessica Wilbanks 1-11-2008

The day after Christmas, President Bush signed an omnibus spending bill containing a major victory for all those committed to a world free of nuclear weapons: the complete elimination of funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program. This program would have led to a new generation of nuclear warheads, and possibly a new nuclear arms race, under the guise of ensuring the reliability of current nuclear warheads.


Congress saw through the program-despite its euphemistic [...]

Administrator 8-02-2007

Mitsuyoshi Toge, born in Hiroshima in 1917, was a Catholic and a poet. He was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945, when he was 24 years old. Toge died at the age of thirty-six. His first hand experience of the bomb, his passion for peace, and his realistic insight into the event made him a leading poet in Hiroshima. This poem is from Hiroshima-Nagasaki: A Pictorial Record of the Atomic Destruction (1978).

How could I ever forget [...]

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  • Susan Watkins 7-01-2007

    One thing missing from "A Nuclear Surge" (by Frida Berrigan, April 2007) is the money source.

    Frida Berrigan 4-01-2007
    Bush's costly, illegal, and dangerous weapons buildup.
    Rose Marie Berger 9-01-2006

    Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, now chair of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission in Sweden, presented the commission’s report to world leaders in June.

    David Cortright 8-01-2006

    Official rhetoric has helped fuel an escalation of tension between the United States and Iran. Do recent negotiations mark a change in direction, or just a temporary detour from the highway to military attack?

    'Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.' - Isaiah 2:4

    Jim Wallis 7-01-2006
    'That's war,' he said, 'and that's why I hate it.'
    David Cortright 4-01-2006
    Washington calls the kettle black.
    Robert Roth 4-01-2006

    Peter's denials and Judas' betrayal foreshadow the reactionary horror to come.

    Mark Davis 3-01-2003

    "THE BOMB is Back" (by Jonathan Schell, November-December 2002) recommends the prohibition of nuclear arms to prevent nuclear war.

    "The Bomb is Back" is an excellent article and absolutely on target, especially your idea that attacking Iraq is going to produce the opposite effect of stated U.S. policy objectives.

    Jonathan Schell 11-01-2002

    What can be done about the growing nuclear threat?

    The Editors 11-01-2002

    End the Nuclear Danger

    Religious statements on nuclear weapons.