EDITOR’S NOTE: The following essay was written by Susan Crane who began serving a 229 day prison sentence in June 2024 for nonviolent actions at Buchel air base in Germany, where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored. Among her many acts of resistance over the years, Susan participated in the Disarm Now Plowshares action at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on November 2, 2009. When not acting up and doing time, Susan lives and works at the Redwood City Catholic Worker. Thanks to The Nuclear Resister for supporting Susan while behind bars, and for sharing this essay. October 11, 2024 While I’m in […]
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Trident nuclear weapons update at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor
Prepared by Glen Milner, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, June 10, 2024; based upon Federation of American Scientists United States Nuclear Weapons, 2024. See https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-05/united-states-nuclear-weapons-2024. “…that pool of eight ballistic missile submarines that operates out of Bangor, that is the most powerful military force on the planet.” – Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists1 Each Trident submarine (SSBN) carries 20 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM, also specifically known as the D5LE).2 Each D5LE (Trident II D5 “life extended”) missile has a range of 12,000 km—equal to 7,460 miles or 6,482 nautical miles.3 Estimated number of warheads per submarine: 90 warheads […]
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Golden Rule protests USS Nimitz, Indian Island Weapons Depot, and Trident Nuclear Sub Base
NEWS FLASH FROM THE GOLDEN RULE Veterans For Peace’s Golden Rule peace boat joined an on-the-water protest outside the Indian Island Weapons Depot near Port Townsend, Washington on Thursday, September 5. As it happened, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was being loaded up with weapons at the time. Will it be headed back for the Middle East? This was part of with the Week of Action for Solidarity with the Palestinian People – coordinated protests by Veterans For Peace chapters in over 25 US cities. One day earlier, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, the Golden Rule protested outside the Bangor Trident […]
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Billboards quote Pope Francis: “The Use… and Possession of Nuclear Weapons is Immoral.”
Billboards inform Puget Sound residents of Moral and Physical Dangers of Nuclear Weapons in Our Back Yard Pax Christi USA has joined with Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action to purchase five billboards that begin on August 19 for four weeks with a message from Pope Francis, declaring that the use and possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. The sign, designed by Pax Christi in the Pacific Northwest, also reminds us of the huge nuclear arsenal in the Puget Sound region and the imperative to abolish nuclear weapons. Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor is homeport to the largest concentration of deployed […]
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A prison comic: “Why is my Grandma in Prison?”
Some of you reading this will remember Susan Crane as a longtime peacemaker and nuclear resister, and member of the Disarm Now Plowshares action in 2009. On that fateful day she and four other activists entered the high security nuclear warhead storage area at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington in the early morning hours of November 2nd, All Souls Day, to call attention to the illegality and immorality of the existence of the first strike Trident weapons system. Crane and her comrades were given significant prison sentences for their nonviolent action for a world free of the threat of nuclear omnicide. […]
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