Ronald J. Sider & Richard K. Taylor.

How should Christians respond to the threat of nuclear war? Ronald J Sider (Ph.D., Yale) and Richard K. Taylor (M.S.W., Bryn Mawr) offer a comprehensive answer. In four major sections they deal with: (1) nuclear destruction and deterrence, (2) the Christian positions of just war and nonviolence, (3) concrete ways to work for peace in the church, society and government, and (4) nonmilitary means of national defense. Exten-sive appendixes list books, peace organizations, audio-visual materials and Sunday-school curricula.

The possibility of a nuclear holocaust is easily the gravest threat which hangs over the world today. So Christians of all people, because we should never be afraid to look reality in the face, must take up a carefully considered position on this issue. For myself, I cannot see any conceivable moral justi fication for using weapons of indiscriminate mass destruction, which would kill millions of noncombatants, and I have therefore declared myself nuclear pacifist. Although I am not a total pacifist and do not agree wit all the reasoning of this book, it seems to me imperative that Christiang should both wrestle with its argument and respond to its ringing call for active peacemaking."