Nuclear warfare

Commentary: Mining for uranium, transporting heavy machines of war and the potential to create a darkened atmosphere are among the environmental costs of pursuing nuclear weapons.

Pope Francis began his first full day in Japan Nov. 24 with a somber visit in the pouring rain to Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, a memorial to the tens of thousands who died when the United States dropped a bomb on the city in 1945. In the evening, he visited the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, honoring the tens of thousands killed by an atomic bomb there, too.

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We say: The possibility that nuclear weapons could actually be used and the cataclysm their use would wreak on the planet has never been greater than right now.

Washington: Saying the possession, upgrading and potential use of nuclear weapons was sinful, peacemakers gathered outside the White House on the feast of the Transfiguration.