Nuclear Weapons

A basic rule of discriminating moral reasoning is that we are only obliged to do an action that we are able to do. That is, an ought implies a can.

The pontiff is right to express concern about the risks of accidental detonation and the employment of nuclear weapons. He’s just wrong on how best to increase the chances of preventing their employment.

Over the weekend, Pope Francis became the first leader of the Catholic Church since John Paul II in 1981 to…

There is a wide gap between how most nuclear weapons scholars regard the weapons and their influence on deterrence and…

In May, I had the wonderful opportunity to teach a week-long introduction to Christian ethics class at New Orleans Baptist…

Dmitry Adamsky’s outstanding Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy explains the religious imagination that has swept not only through the Russian nuclear arsenal since 1991, but also into all levels of the country’s nuclear tirade, military forces, and even Russian foreign policy more broadly.

Westminster Abbey recently held a commemorative service to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Navy submariners’ continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent, carrying the Trident nuclear missile system. Some Christian anti-nuclear activists were unhappy.

The United Nations has failed to do what it was created to do—“promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security.”

Christians should not be overly concerned about Trump meeting Putin, for now at least.