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Church leaders step into political realm to show they’re serious about scrapping nukes
By Douglas Roche February 6, 2019
The question is whether the government will listen, as we witness increasing nuclear brinkmanship.
A spokesperson for Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has blamed Russia for the United States’ decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty it had signed with Russia in 1987. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
EDMONTON—Donald Trump’s administration in the United States is withdrawing from participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), Russia’s Vladimir Putin has retaliated with similar action, and the modernization of nuclear weapons races ahead. We are witnessing nuclear brinkmanship, a horror that we thought the end of the Cold War buried. Who can stop this madness?
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