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's tweets on the 75th anniv of atomic bombing of Hiroshima are particularly strong; he humbly doesn't note that he and his Catholic Worker & Plowshares compadres have helped shape Pope Francis's thinking on the abolition of nuclear weapons newyorker.com/news/daily-com

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@RobertEllsberg

Aug 6, 2020

“Here, in an incandescent burst of lightning and fire so many, so many dreams and hopes disappeared, leaving behind only shadows and silence...From the abyss of silence we continue even today to hear the cries of those who are no longer.”—Pope Francis at Hiroshima 11/24/2019

@RobertEllsberg

Thank you

@Paul_R_Elie

, but nothing I have ever done or ever will do in the cause of peace will equal the opportunity to have helped my dad complete his great work “The Doomsday Machine.” Just to read this book today would be a great start for anyone concerned about our future.

5:00 PM · Aug 6, 2020

suggests, a brave book: spells out how US & Russia maintain “doomsday machines” that “under conditions of electronic warning, external conflict, or expectations of attack, would...bring about the global destruction of civilization and of nearly all human life.”