In becoming the first pontiff in 38 years to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the only cities in the world to have suffered atomic bombings, Pope Francis was keen to press his strongly held desire for a world without nuclear arms.With a stalemate in efforts to prod major powers toward nuclear disarmament and international arms control frameworks under strain, the pope's trip Sunday to the two cities was a measure of his concern about the possibility of a new nuclear arms race, experts say.Enthusiastically welcomed by people in Japan -- a country with fewer than 450,000 Catholics -- the pope st…READ FULL ARTICLE
