This week marks the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I plan to take part in several demonstrations in California as part of my ongoing penance, prayer and witness against nuclear weapons and God’s call for peace on earth.

I speak with my friend Jack Cohen-Joppa, who along with his wife, Felice, has published The Nuclear Resister newspaper since 1980.

With over 200 issues, they have chronicled over 100,000 anti-nuclear and anti-war civil disobedience actions and related prosecutions covering thousands of activists, and encouraged support for the women and men jailed and imprisoned for such nonviolent actions.

Their newspaper has tracked every public action that involved crossing a line against war and nuclear weapons, that is, every campaign, every local and  ...