“This was also the first gift the risen Christ offered to his friends and to the whole world: peace,” Leo wrote. Invoking Bob Dylan: ‘Man-owned an’ man-handled’In his foreword, the pope referenced American singer Bob Dylan, who criticized the manufacture of nuclear bombs during the Cold War in his 1963 song “Go Away You Bomb.” “As singer-songwriter and poet Bob Dylan wrote, figuratively addressing the atomic bomb, in one of his poetic compositions: ‘I hate you cause yer man-made and man-owned an’ man-handled,‘” Leo said. The pope also explained that the threat of nuclear catastrophe looms large unless action is taken. “A world in which machines, albeit sophisticated and faster than us, are the ones to decide to bomb defenseless people would be truly frightening,” Leo wrote.