Ban The Bomb: One More Once
By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I used to enjoy listening to Count Basie proclaim, “One More Once!” near the end of his 1960s jazz version of April in Paris. It was his signal that the band was going to repeat a few more rip-roaring bars of the song. The words came to mind when I picked up the May 4 edition of the Jesuits’ America magazine and saw an article by Kevin Clarke entitled “No More Nukes?” Clarke details the work of a new group seeking to ban the bomb, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Members of the organization met in Vienna in December of last year, where the group’s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, warned of the 16,330…Continue Reading