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Marking the 40th Anniversary of Scottish Bishops 1982 statement on Nuclear Weapons

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 “In March 1982 the Scottish Bishops published a pastoral letter on Peace and Disarmament.  In this letter they challenged not just the use of nuclear weapons, something the church has always condemned, but they challenged also the very notion of deterrence and the morality of deterrence". ICN.



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