This email in response to my earlier post about Anglican Bishops denouncing Trident nukes is bound to bother some folks:

Jonah, when the world was young, I made five strategic deterrent patrols as the navigator of USS Michigan’s Gold Crew. This of course means that I was prepared to commit war crimes that would make Hitler and Stalin look like pikers. Twenty-four (potentially) nuclear armed missiles can lay waste to a significant fraction of the earth’s population after all. This would indeed be bad for the environment as the bishops allude. What the dear clerics seem to have forgotten is that those weapons would only be used in response to a similar attack. Somehow I don’t think that Christ would have disapproved of going very old-testament in that situation. [Name withheld] PS – Sometimes it’s very hard to be an Anglican.