Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons

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Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weapons At a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume, issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, presents essays from moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict transformation scholars, and nuclear arms control experts, with testimonies from witnesses. It is a companion volume to A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020). Chapters from the perspectives of missile personnel and the military chain of command, industrialists and legislators, and citizen activists show how we might achieve a nuclear-free world. Key to this transition is the important role of public education and the mobilization of lay movements to raise awareness and effect change. This essential collection prepares military professionals, policymakers, everyday citizens, and the pastoral workers who guide them, to make decisions that will lead us to disarmament. Cover Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. How We Got Here 1 From Deterrence to Abolition: The Evolution of Roman Catholic Nuclear Ethics 2 Just War Lessons We Should Remember 3 Philosophical Debate on Nuclear Deterrence 4 The Moral Ecology of Deterrence and Abolition PART II. Witnesses 5 Nuclear Realists 6 The Testimony of Witnesses 7 Swords into Plowshares PART III. Toward a World without Nuclear Weapons 8 National Attitudes toward Nuclear Deterrence 9 6 + 6 = 9: Law and Nuclear Weapons 10 Abolition in the Context of General Disarmament 11 New Models: Building Capacities for Nuclear Cooperation 12 Nuclear Abolition and Global Human Needs PART IV. Evolution of Just War 13 Nuclear Disarmament: Ethical Challenges at or Near Zero 14 Just Peace and Nuclear Disarmament 15 Peacebuilding and Nuclear Deterrence 16 Prophetic Indictment or Deliberative Discussion? PART V. Conscience Formation 17 Formation of Conscience Regarding the Development, Possession, and Use of Nuclear Weapons 18 Catholic Conscience and Nuclear Weapons 19 The Conundrum of Deterrence: A Practical Christian Response 20 Pastoral Accompaniment: Pope Francis’s Approach to the Human Vocation PART VI. Moral Education 21 Reviving Disarmament Education 22 The Nuclear History Boot Camp 23 Propaganda for Peace: Memes, Mass Moralizing, and a World Free of Nuclear Weapons 24 A World without Nuclear Weapons: Imagine It One Step at a Time PART VII. Responsible Actors 25 The Ethics of Nuclear Stewards 26 In the Chain of Command 27 Profiting from the Bomb 28 The Condemnation of the Possession, Threat of Use, and Use of Nuclear Weapons: Reflections for Scientists and Technologists 29 Morality Matters: A Parliamentarian Reflects on Nuclear Disarmament 30 The Ethics of Manufacturing Nuclear Weapons 31 The Responsibilities of “Enabled” Citizens for Integral Disarmament and Sustainable Human Development PART VIII. The Role of Lay Catholic Movements 32 Organizing the Church for a World without Nuclear Weapons Index About the Contributors