Documentary filmmaker Helen Young’s film The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs is coming to Seattle University on February 21, 2019 at 6:30 PM in Bannon 401.

This screening could not be more timely – at a time when US-Russian relations are at the lowest point since the end of the Cold War, President Trump is about to pull the US out of one of the two most important nuclear weapons treaties, and the US is building up it nuclear arsenal and creating a new Cold War. The danger of nuclear war has not been this great since the height of the Cold War – the hands of the famous Doomsday Clock remain at 2 minutes to midnight, the closest it has ever been to the hour of doom.

The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs follows several activists, including an 82-year-old Catholic nun, who risk long jail terms in their efforts to move the world away from the nuclear brink.

Since 1980 activists in lay and religious life have undertaken dramatic Plowshares protests, derived from the biblical injunction, “They shall beat their swords into Plowshares,” risking long prison sentences in an ongoing campaign to move the world away from the nuclear brink.

This film follows two cases: the July 2012 break-in at the site known as America’s “Fort Knox of Uranium” where the intruders were an 82-year old Catholic nun and two fellow peace activists and the 2009 Plowshares action at a US naval base near Seattle, WA. It follows the activists’ legal efforts to justify their actions under international law and highlights the power of their moral conviction.

For more information: https://www.gzcenter.org/event/the-nuns-the-priests-and-the-bombs-at-seattle-u/