The Pope fears a nuclear conflict

The Pope's sensitivity to the dangerous nuclear drift, which is going through the world, has provoked a heartfelt appeal against the danger of an atomic war. According to the Pope, the run-up to nuclear weapons, which betrayed the will expressed by many governments against nuclear proliferation, has become the possible cause of a nuclear conflict with consequences whose scale could have the dimension of the catastrophe. The current tense situation that has arisen with North Korea could foster a nuclear conflict even for a single misunderstanding or an accident; in fact the continuous state of tension and respective threats that Pyongyang and Washington are carrying out, even simultaneously with the increasingly frequent military exercises, has created conditions of extreme danger and tension, which justify the Pope's alarm. On the other hand, that of North Korea is the only case, even if the most striking, of potential danger to the outbreak of a conflict. The continuous tests of force directed at provoking foreign states by Russian military means, the flight over the exclusive British economic zone or the Baltic states or the land maneuvers that have worried Poland, the ongoing disagreements for the disputed islands between China and Japan, that have seen aerial maneuvers of the respective states, the tension between the US and Iran and between Arabia and Iran, are all emergencies that involve nuclear powers and that can also become dangers of atomic conflicts. For the head of the Vatican the solution is nuclear disarmament, which must go through the destruction of the nuclear arsenal. This position, which seems the most reasonable, however, clashes with the increasingly widespread tendency in various countries to equip themselves with the atomic arms and which is also reinforced with the resumption of dualism between the United States and Russia, the new confrontation between Washington and Beijing , of the Israeli defense strategy, of the will of Pakistan to equalize the nuclear arsenal with India and also with the will of Saudi Arabia to equip itself with an atomic device to establish a sort of parity with Iran, its historic enemy. As you can see, the world has taken a direction contrary to that desired by the Pope and which would suggest pure common sense. Unfortunately, the possession of an atomic armament is no longer so complicated and even the general political conditions, which are not based on two exclusive blocks, do not favor disarmament. Nobody could imagine a possible nostalgia for the balance of terror, where the subjects in competition were only two, which could ensure a certain stability, even within a dialectic of heavy opposition. On the topic of disarmament, the Vatican seems to pour a deep commitment, which could also lead to a direct diplomatic role in the resolution of the North Korean crisis: despite the denials, the Vatican has already organized a conference to promote nuclear disarmament, which was followed by intervention United Nations against nuclear proliferation. The Pope's line is that the contrasts between the states must be resolved through dialogue and negotiations with every other form that can favor the approach of contrasting nations. Given the current lack of authoritativeness of the United Nations, the emergence of a neutral subject such as the Vatican can represent a possible way to be taken immediately to avoid potential atomic conflicts and, in the long run, take a central role for more discourse. ample that you return to dealing with total disarmament.