No more nukes!        

This past weekend marked an important--and terrible--day in human history: the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Today is the anniversary of nuclear attack against Nagasaki. More than 100,000 people were killed on the two days, and as many as 150,000 are estimated to have died by December of that year, due to the fatal effects of radiation.

It's hard to imagine Jesus, the giver of life, condoning the use or stockpiling of these harbingers of death. And while the U.S. bishops in their 1983 pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, allowed for a "strictly conditioned moral acceptance of nuclear weapons as a temporary deterrent to aggression," nearly 30 years later Catholics across the globe, including the late Bishop Leroy Matthiesen writing in U.S. Catholic, are calling for a complete rejection of nuclear weapons. Even the U.S. Air Force has abandoned the biblical justifications for their use, formerly a part of its nuclear weapons training.