ITNDER unreserved submis` sion to the authority of the Church, the newly formed "Catholic Nuclear Disarmament Group" (Secretary: E. Linden, 4, Milton Avenue, London, Nei) calls upon the government: (a) to work for universal nuclear disarmament; (b) to renounce the use of nuclear weapons in war; (r) to discontinue the Manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons; (d) to destroy eXisting stocks.
The grounds of this policy are stated to be: (1) That major nuclear weapons ( b o rn b dropped on japan, more destructive later atomic bombs and nuclear bombs) will in practice be used against inhabited cities and major centres of population; (2) That the use of smaller nuclear weapons would lead to progressive use of larger ones, and they would have genetic effects on the unborn similar to the larger ones.
All these weapons are contrary, the Group maintains, to the traditional Catholic teaching on just war.