Resources for Educators: Nuclear Arms

The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition” CCC 2309.

Articles:

• “Backgrounder on Nuclear Arms Treaties,” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, Office of International Justice and Peace (February 2011).
• Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, “Nuclear Weapons and Moral Questions: The Path to Zero,” talk given at Symposium hosted by the U.S. Strategic Command (July 2009).
• “Nuclear Arms Are Incompatible with Peace, Vatican Tells U.N.” (October 2002).
• “75 U.S. Catholic Bishops Condemn U.S. Policy of Nuclear Deterrence: The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence,” An Evaluation by Pax Christi Bishops in the United States (June 1998).

Dates to Note:

August 6 and August 9 were the dates that Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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