Never nuke

With continuing cycles of violence in the Middle East, Haiti, Ukraine, India and Pakistan, and those executing the many civil wars in countries among innocent civilians, we are once again hearing global leaders threaten use of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons detonated anywhere in the world would impact us all. Even a very limited nuclear war, for example between India and Pakistan, could destroy worldwide food production and millions would die worldwide, including in the United States.

Just as smoke from the Canadian wildfires crossed national and state lines to Pennsylvania recently, so too will fallout from detonated nuclear weapons.

Congressman Chris Deluzio can address the growing danger of nuclear war by joining those who have already sponsored H. Res. 317, calling on the U.S. to enter into negotiations with the other eight nuclear armed countries for a verifiable agreement to eliminate their nuclear arsenals according to an agreed upon timetable. This resolution supports the aims of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which has been signed by 122 nations.

H. Res. 317 also calls for taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert in the United States and cutting the funding for modernizing our nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

The late Pope Francis stated that nuclear weapons create nothing but a false sense of security.

We need to heed these warnings and of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the world must wake up and understand the need to eliminate these doomsday weapons.

Sister Melanie Marie Bajorek, CSSF
Coraopolis