Rome Newsroom, Oct 21, 2020 / 05:10 am
A Vatican official challenged the security theory of nuclear deterrence as immoral at the United Nations this week and called for "genuine progress" toward complete nuclear disarmament.
"Seeking security through arms … only makes us progressively more insecure," Archbishop Gabriele Caccia said at the UN's first committee general debate in New York on Oct. 19.
"The strategic doctrines of the Nuclear-Weapons-Possessing States have contributed to fomenting this climate of fear, mistrust and hostility afflicting the world today," he said.
Caccia, the permanent observer of the Holy See to the UN, underlined that complete disarmament needed to begin "with a renunciation of defense strategies that blur the distinction between nuclear and conventional weapons."