An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is delivered to Vatican City during Vatican III, donated by American bishop, and decorated in white and gold with nose cones shaped like papal tiaras and topped with double-barred papal crosses (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 89-90). A Vatican source notes the missiles are "the perfect squelch to Stalin's crack about how many divisions the Pope has."
Inspiration[]
An intercontinental ballistic missile is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 3,400 miles and primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery[1].
Those at the last Vatican Council "who voted to condemn nuclear arms" were those who celebrated Pope John XXIII's encyclical on nuclear non-proliferation entitled Pacem in terris (Peace on Earth). It was the first papal encyclical published in its entirety in the New York Times[2].
References[]
- ↑ Wikipedia: Intercontinental ballistic missile
- ↑ Wikipedia: Pacem in terris