Ira Chernus

IRA CHERNUS is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A specialist in comparative religion and the history of Judaism, he has recently turned to exploring the nuclear weapons issue from the viewpoint of academic religious studies. This paper was originally presented as a plenary address at the 1984 meeting of the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Region of the American Academy of Religion, at the Univer￾sity of Denver, 28 April 1984.