Toward Nuclear Disarmament?

Article

A First Step

The United States has for too long fallen short on its moral and legal duty to pursue nuclear disarmament.

By Archbishop John Wester

April 4, 2025

Nuclear Weapons

War and Peace

Article

The Need for Deterrence

In an ideal world, we would not need nuclear weapons. But this is not an ideal world, and deterrence remains the foundation of U.S. national security.

By Raymond J. Juzaitis

April 11, 2025

Nuclear Weapons

War and Peace

Foreign Affairs

Article

Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility

From our pages in 1962, Thomas Merton writes on the duty of Christians in apocalyptic times

By Thomas Merton

January 3, 2018

Foreign Affairs

Ethics

War and Peace

Article

The Forgotten Epidemic

The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?

By Alexander Stern

January 9, 2025

Nuclear Weapons

War and Peace

Bishops

Article

A Pluralistic Ethic

The state of contemporary nuclear politics call on us to attend even more closely to Pope Francis’s call to protect those on the periphery.

By J. Bryan Hehir

March 25, 2025

Article

Just peace is not idealistic; it is history. Bad times provide moments for unlikely breakthroughs.

The Promise of Peacebuilding

By Maryann Cusimano Love

April 10, 2025

Religion

Politics

Nuclear Weapons

Feature

No More Nukes?

Are we at last on the eve of the postnuclear millennium?

By Michael C. Desch, Gerard F. Powers

February 9, 2018

Article

A New Arms Race

It is time for the growing threat of nuclear war to take its rightful place at the center of our debates about foreign policy.

By Miles Doyle

July 8, 2024

War and Peace

International

Russia

Article

On Nuclear Disbelief

From the archives: Knowing what nuclear weapons can do, and knowing we'll probably never be rid of them, it's clear why military men tell themselves, and everybody else, the bombs will never be used.

By Thomas Powers

May 28, 1982

War and Peace

From the Archives

Domestic Affairs