Exaggerated concern for national security

It is this abnormal situation, the result of a war and of an unacceptably exaggerated concern for security, which deadens the impulse towards united cooperation by all for the common good of the human race, to the detriment especially of peaceful peoples who are impeded from their rightful access to the goods meant for all. (Papal Encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 30 December 1987).