Some Christians believe that to use nuclear weapons, could be justified. Because if a country is in the possession of such weapons, it prevents other countries form attacking them, due to a fear of a nuclear war to take place. That is probably a reason why no major European war has broken out since 1945. Another reason for them to justify the keeping and using these weapons, is that if they did not keep or use these weapons, and a group of fundamentalists from that country got hold of such weapons. This group could now have enough power to take over this country with no nuclear weapons. The last reason for justifying the storage and use of nuclear weapons is that if we stopped keeping them and making them better for greater use, then thousands of people would lose their jobs due to the great importance the nuclear weapon industry is to be country’s national economy.
Many Christians are against the keeping of nuclear weapons because the more weapons that are created the more the chance of launching one. If we did use one it would destroy God’s creations both human life and the nature of the world.
Some Christians believe that you should love everyone and not bring harm to anyone, if you are keeping these weapons it is going against God whole theory of,
“love thy neighbour as yourself”
Many Christians are also against nuclear weapons because they are very expensive to build and to keep improving them. Nower days, a lot more money is spent on the keeping of nuclear weapons than the development aid to poorer countries. All the wasting of money that people are doing concerning nuclear weapons could be spent on something with better use, like better schools better hospitals better police force etc.
Many Christians are also against the keeping of nuclear weapons because if a country has no nuclear weapons then it is not giving out a threat to any other countries there for it will have less chance of being attacked.
Some Christians like ‘crusaders’ believe that a nuclear war can be justified if the government thinks that it is a good idea. Because in the bible God tells us that we should respect all government authorities.
‘Be subject to governing authorities’
Other Christians are against what the governments say because in the bible, it also says,
‘We must obey God, not men’
If the government says that nuclear war is right, but we believe that God thinks it is wrong we should not encourage it.
The Christians, who believe in the just war theory, cannot support nuclear war because a war can never be just. It can never be just, because nuclear weapons are so explosive, that you could not distinguish between non-combatants and combatants. Also another reason to not use nuclear weapons, is that the damage and grief caused by such a weapon can never be equalled in damage and grief from a common war with common weapons such as guns.
Therefore different types of Christians from the main three groups (pacifists, just war believers, and crusaders) can think differently about justifying a nuclear war. On over all I think most Christians are strongly opposed to justifying nuclear war. So on overall, most Christians are opposed to it, because they think of it as a blasphemy against God.