北西仏教新報 2024年11月14日 By Rev. Senji Kanaeda Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo A Peace Pagoda containing the remains of Shakyamuni Buddha is being built next to the Kitsap-Bangor US Navy nuclear submarine base in Poulsbo, Washington. The pagoda is located on the grounds of the Ground Zero Nonviolent Action Center, a grassroots peace movement organization founded in 1977 to reject nuclear weapons and ground violence. When completed in 2025, it will be the first pagoda on the West Coast and the third “nonviolent” monument in the United States after Massachusetts and New York. The construction of the pagoda is being carried out by the […]
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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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Boats by Bangor with the Golden Rule
Join Local activists as they stage a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base. Peace activists will travel along the Bangor waterfront where nuclear warheads and Trident missiles are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific Ocean. The witness for peace at the nuclear submarine base marks the 79th commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. What: Peace activists will participate in a nonviolent waterborne protest at the Bangor nuclear submarine base waterfront. This is the third year since 2016 […]
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