Russ Wellen

Wellen edits the foreign policy blog Focal Points for the Institute of Policy Studies. He has written about disarmament for AlterNet, Asia Times Online, the Journal of Psychohistory, Scholars & Rogues, and Truthout.

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Articles by Russ Wellen

Opinion
27 March 2013
Nuclear Weapons

Disarmament and the pro-life movement: A match made in heaven?

Russ Wellen

They identify with different ends of the political spectrum, but nuclear disarmament activists and anti-abortion protesters have something in common: A desire to protect innocent life.

That shared interest represents a major opportunity that disarmament activists are letting slip by. Though nuclear weapons pose as great a danger to the planet as ever, the disarmament movement has flagged since the end of the Cold War. It can and should reinvigorate itself by recruiting anti-abortion Christians.