By Leonard Eiger (on the 77th anniversary of the Trinity Test) Trinity, understood by most of Christianity as the union of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in one God, was co-opted on July 16, 1945 when the United States government exploded the first nuclear weapon over the desert sands of New Mexico in what scientists called the Trinity test. Thus (officially) began the atomic age, and this unholy Trinity was its ungodly offspring. It was 5:29:45 AM at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test named Trinity, in which the […]
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Mother’s Day Weekend Resister Gets His Day In Court
Thanks to Mary Gleysteen for this report on Michael “Firefly” Siptroth’s recent court hearing. The hearing occurred too late to include in the July 2022 Ground Zero Newsletter, where you can read statements from others who joined Michael in blockading the Trident submarine base this past Mother’s Day weekend. ***************** Michael Firefly Siptroth appeared in Kitsap County District Court July 5, 2022, for a mitigation hearing arising from his part in blocking the roadway to the Trident Submarine Base at Bangor during the Mothers Day action on May 7. Judge Pro Tem Robert Davy participated via zoom and explained to […]
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Rocket Scientist Turned Satyagrahi Publishes The Goodness Field
Editor’s Note: Sometimes it really does take a “rocket scientist!” Many years ago Bob Aldridge was working at what is now Lockheed Martin working on a new missile for the OHIO Class “Trident” ballistic missile submarines. When he realized that he was designing more than a “defensive” weapon, and that the missile was being designed to be used as a first-strike weapon, he quit his job and ultimately helped form a community of nonviolent resistance that grew into the Pacific Life Community and Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. Bob wrote many inspiring works along the way, and his book […]
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Tipping Point – A Father’s Day Meditation
Editor’s Note: Doug Milholland wrote this meditation that he will read in front of the gate leading into the U.S. Navy’s Weapons Transfer Depot on Indian Island during a Quaker style Father’s Day gathering on Sunday, June 19th. Click here to read the original document with footnotes. Tipping Point – A Father’s Day Meditation Douglas Milholland 6/15/2022 Martin Luther King, Gandhi, led people to freedom, enjoining non-violent fearless hearts, doing the impossible – Being Peace, connecting with the Innate Worth of all concerned, inviting “the Better Angels of our Nature” to dwell amongst us, helping us mature from power over […]
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Nuclear weapons aren’t an investment!
Editor’s Note: This is a Letter to the Editor from a Ground Zero member. It was published on May 27, 2022 in the Kitsap Sun newspaper. ***************** Nuclear weapons aren’t an investment ‘New subs will bring new investments'( Kitsap Sun, May 24) seems like a deal with the devil. An investment in instruments of mass destruction and the infrastructure with which to maintain them strikes me as unsound, immoral, and illegal under international law and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We, the taxpayers of the United States, are being told to spend $1.2 trillion, desperately needed for […]
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