Editor’s Note: Dr. David Hall is a longtime, active member of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. Dave has been a constant voice for abolishing Trident over the years, and continues to speak out against the government’s plans to build a new generation of ballistic missile submarines to replace the current Trident fleet. This guest commentary appeared in today’s Everett Herald newspaper. ****************** Guest commentary published on Saturday, January 30, 2016 in The Herald of Everett, Washington Three minutes to midnight no time to rebuild Trident missiles By David C. Hall A year ago the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved […]
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Ground Zero Center Annual Letter
Editor’s Note: As we approach the end of 2015 and prepare to move into a new year, I invite you to read the annual Ground Zero letter that was sent to many supporters by postal mail at the end of November. It’s a wonderful summary of the events of the past year along with a glimpse of what’s to come in 2016. Best wishes to all, and hope to see you at Ground Zero in 2016. ****************** November 14, 2015 Dear Friends: This is our annual report of activities, and an appeal for funds for Ground Zero.trailer movie Nocturnal Animals 2016 […]
READ MOREAnnual Ground Zero Membership Meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2015
The annual Ground Zero membership meeting is when we decide the future of Ground Zero. It is a time for reflection and renewal, and for new proposals for peace and justice. The Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action is part of a larger peace community in the Pacific Northwest that transcends geographic boundaries, gender, race and time. We invite all to come and share your ideas for a peaceful and larger world community and to help continue our resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons system.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download Please join us. Find out more! See the […]
READ MORETwelve arrests at Trident nuclear submarine base marking the 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings
Fourteen peace activists risked arrest at a West Coast nuclear weapons base early Monday morning in a nonviolent protest against the continued deployment and modernization of the Trident nuclear weapons system. The Trident submarine base at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, Washington, contains the largest concentration of operational nuclear weapons in the US arsenal. Each of the 8 Trident submarines at Bangor carries as many as 24 Trident II(D-5) missiles, each loaded with up to 8 independently targetable thermonuclear warheads. Each warhead has an explosive yield up to 32 times the yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. […]
READ MORE70TH Anniversary of US Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Many still believe that the atomic bombings were necessary to end the war with Japan; they accept President Truman’s assertion that the nuclear bombings saved the lives of a half-million US troops. In fact, the consensus among historians is that the A-bombings were NOT necessary to bring an end to the war. In President Eisenhower’s autobiography Mandate for Change, he recalls his reaction to U.S. Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, upon hearing of the successful atomic bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. Eisenhower told Stimson that he believed “that Japan […]
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