Plea for peace.In memory of the August 6 and August 9 anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. , Japan, in 1945, a tactic that was supposed to end the need for war: "There are now approximately 6 billion members of the human family, who live in 1 billion different households, in 189 nation states, and who are represented in over 10,000 different ethnic groups and communities of various sorts. As our nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or grow ever more lethal, our swelling populations exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. increase the possibilities for violent conflicts. "We have arrived at a critical moment in history, where our technologies and our numbers make it increasingly risky to rely on our old strategy of trusting bombs and the threat of violence to grant us peace. Now is the time to seek new, nonviolent means for resolving our conflicts." Practicing Peace: A Devotional de·vo·tion·al adj. Of, relating to, expressive of, or used in devotion, especially of a religious nature. n. A short religious service. de·vo Walk Through the Quaker Tradition by Catherine Whitmire (Ave Maria Press Ave Maria Press is a Roman Catholic publishing company which was founded in 1865 by Friar Edward Sorin, a Holy Cross priest who had founded the University of Notre Dame.[1] Ave Maria magazine Sorin founded the company in order to publish the ) |
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