Fifteen college students attended a conference in Washington May 20-24 designed to prepare a new generation of nuclear weapons specialists and activists.
Students plan to raise nuclear weapon dangers in fall return to campuses
People-to-people diplomacy suggested to ease U.S.-Iran tensions
Steps to open avenues for people-to-people diplomacy would go a long way to tamp down tensions between the United States and Iran, said a U.N. representative of Pax Christi International.
Nun-activist who protests ‘immoral’ U.S. nuclear weapons focus of film
The 88-year-old Sister Megan Rice, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, was invited to a congressional hearing, spoke at the United Nations in New York City and is now touring the country as the star of a new documentary.
Pope says world has reached moral limit on nuclear deterrence
During a news conference Dec. 2 on his flight back to Rome from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Pope Francis said the Cold War policy of nuclear deterrence appears morally unacceptable today.
Peace, dialogue held hostage by nuclear weapons threat, pope says
Nuclear weapons “exist in the service of a mentality of fear that affects not only the parties in conflict but the entire human race,” Pope Francis said Nov. 10.
Anti-nuclear coalition wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Emphasizing the hope for a nuclear-free world, the Nobel committee announced its decision to award the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Bishop urges U.S. to remain party to Iran nuclear deal
Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said in a letter Oct. 3 to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the threat of violence from the North Korean regime cannot be ignored, and the U.S. must work with others in the international community for a diplomatic solution based on dialogue.
U.S., European bishops call for a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons
A joint declaration released July 6 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Conference of European Justice and Peace Commissions called upon the U.S. and European nations to work with other nations to “map out a credible, verifiable and enforceable strategy for the total elimination of nuclear weapons.”