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Fire Nears Chernobyl

May 3, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2020/04/26/fire-licks-the-chernobyl-perimeter/ … [Read more...] about Fire Nears Chernobyl

Pat Birnie, Presente!

April 18, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

From Felice Cohen-Joppa ---- Pat Birnie, Presente!My friend Pat, a long-time and tireless peace and anti-nuclear activist, died on April 16 at age 90.Pat and Betty Schroeder, her friend and partner in crime (literally and figuratively, with both women arrested occasionally at protests, including with other Raging Grannies at a Military Recruiting Center!), moved to Tucson … [Read more...] about Pat Birnie, Presente!

Pervasive Presence of Plutonium Dioxide at Rocky Flats

April 11, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

https://files.constantcontact.com/7a350e88301/38682ff5-0013-4059-8b91-2eefa267ae29.pdf … [Read more...] about Pervasive Presence of Plutonium Dioxide at Rocky Flats

Kings Bay Protestors Sentencing Date Set

April 11, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

After a six-month wait, Judge Lisa Godbey Wood has set two dates at the end of May for sentencing the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 defendants who were found guilty on Oct. 24, 2019 for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at Kings Bay Naval Base. On May 28th, Carmen Trotta of the NYC- St. Joseph House Catholic Worker, Mark Colville of the New Haven, Amistad Catholic Worker, … [Read more...] about Kings Bay Protestors Sentencing Date Set

RIP Mag Seaman

April 8, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

Magdalene Seaman, active in The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of War, left this life March 28, 2020. She and her husband Ken served on our Board from the beginning of the Nuclear Freeze Movement until last year when she could no longer drive to the meetings. She was an active organizer and participant in the Raging Grannies in Colorado since its inception. Mag's first … [Read more...] about RIP Mag Seaman

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Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996