You are right to insist that to “manage” our nuclear weapons safely without abolishing them, as current British government policy prescribes, is not good enough (“We need mutually assured sanity”, leading article, 15 August)But it is worth adding that both the Vatican and our own Bishops’ Conference have condemned British nuclear policy. On World Peace Day in 2006 Pope Benedict declared nuclear deterrence to be both “baneful and fallacious”, and in November of that year the bishops of England and Wales, prompted by Pax Christi, declared that British nuclear weapons should be decommissioned because of the “unconscionable threat of nuclear destruction” which they entail. These teachings imply that we in Britain are bound to oppose curren