A journalist, a theologian, a philosopher, and a legal scholar comment on 'Dignitas Infinita' and the questions it raises.

From the archives: Knowing what nuclear weapons can do, and knowing we'll probably never be rid of them, it's clear why military men tell themselves, and everybody else, the bombs will never be used.

“The nannies, off to their daily grind, scramble / into the back of the Volvo and are carted off / to some neighbor’s patch of scotch broom / and blackberries.”