Thinking About Nuclear Weapons

The German physicist and philosopher C. F. von Weizsacker once asked Martin Buber why all the Church’s appeals for an end to the nuclear arms race were so ineffectual. Buber’s reply was that the appeals have failed to state what one’s individual responsibility is. On no issue so vital have citizens felt so excluded and so unclear about their responsibility. Even those who believe there will be nuclear war in the next few years carry on with business as usual. A Gallup poll d...