Air Force Halts “Jesus Loves Nuclear Weapons” Training for Missile Officers

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For 20 years U.S. Air Force officers training to operate America’s missile silos were instructed on the morality of war and the launching of a nuclear attack—with the aid of quotes from the Bible and a former Nazi SS officer.

The two-decade training program abruptly ended, however, after the watchdog website Truthout published a report on the use of passages from St. Augustine, Jesus and Wernher Von Braun including a PowerPoint presentation on St. Augustine’s “Christian Just War Theory,” as well as examples of biblical teachings that discuss the “righteous way” to conduct war.

The now-withdrawn curriculum included quotes from Von Braun, regarded as the father of the U.S. space program. However, prior to that, he was a member of the Nazi Party and an SS officer during World War II who “used Jews imprisoned in concentration camps, captured French anti-Nazi partisans, civilians, and others to help build the V-2, a weapon responsible for the death of thousands of British civilians,” said Truthout.

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