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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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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One Person Can Change the World (and Prevent a Nuclear War)
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on January 31, 2022 at PopularResistance.org under the title, “SAVING THE WORLD FROM NUCLEAR WAR: And How One Man Did.” By Leonard Eiger and Glen Milner These are dark days for both our nation and the world. Climate change is wreaking havoc everywhere, a global pandemic continues its onslaught, our nation’s experiment in democracy is threatened by a slow-motion insurrection and, to top it all off, our nation has taken the lead in pushing Russia toward a war over Ukraine that is capable of going off the rails into a full-scale nuclear war […]
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End US-UK Nuclear Collusion
By Leonard Eiger On March 16th the United Kingdom announced (in its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Foreign Policy and Development titled Global Britain in a Competitive Age) that it will increase the limit on its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades. Instead of maintaining a cap of 180 warheads (as it had previously stated), the UK will increase its stockpile cap to 260 warheads – a 40% increase. The review also broadens the role of nuclear weapons to include the possible use of nuclear weapons to address emerging technologies (cyber attacks). This is shocking and unacceptable! Indeed, […]
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Peace organizations win legal fees and the release of eleven previously court-sealed Navy records showing new explosives risk at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor
NEWS RELEASE: October 29, 2020 Click here for PDF version of release Contacts: Glen Milner 206-365-7865 Katherine George (attorney) 425-802-1052 James Lobsenz (attorney) 206-622-8020 On August 31, 2020, Judge Ronald B. Leighton ordered the release of eleven records that the Navy had provided to Plaintiffs in 2012 in the course of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lawsuit that were sealed later in 2012 in a secret court hearing. Judge Leighton also lifted a gag order imposed upon Plaintiffs over seven years ago. Following the ruling by Judge Leighton, on October 23, 2020, Judge Thomas S. Zilly in the […]
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