Archive Report
Archive Report
Surge in American Activism
Churches' Nuclear Protests This Spring
Concern about the threat of nuclear annihilation has grown mightily in religious communities since the faltering of U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations at the end of the 1970s.1 During the past two years just about every mainline church in the United States has debated some kind of resolution or statement on the arms race. While some people may dismiss such resolutions as just words, President Reagan and his advisers take the churches seriously and have made a concerted effort to win support from religious leaders.
Administration officials seem even more alarmed about the situation in several European countries, where church activists have become a big part of the rapidly growing peace movement. If the United States tries to deploy ...