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Pope Paul VI makes a special appeal for world peace in 1965 at United Nations headquarters in New York. Following in the footsteps of Pope Pius XII, every pope in the "nuclear age" has pleaded with the world's powers to lessen the threat of nuclear war and reduce nuclear arsenals.(CNS/Yutaka Nagata, U.N.)