Schneider reports: "In the early morning on Saturday, July 28, three gray-haired trespassers made their way into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee. They were armed with human blood, hammers, candles, flowers, crime-scene tape and a Bible. In the process of their break-in and after, they managed to close down operations at the facility for days on end."
The Transform Now Three with their signs. (photo: Transform Now Plowshares)
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Keep in mind the world's #1 Nuclear power, the USA, has not used these weapons in 67 years. The USA has also been the driving force behind disarmament agreements. The USA has also been one of one a few countries to actually reduce their stocks of nuclear weapons. Has Israel, France, the UK? CHeck your facts before you allow emotional rhetoric to drive your thinking.
Your paragraph is one of the most facile nihilist statements about nuclear power and the human condition I have EVER born witness to.
So...'a fact of life' can also be claimed about the last 40 years of zombie killings such as the recent Colorado.
A 'fact of life' can be claimed for Fukushima generating electricity...ey?
You sir just stepped off the cliff of lemmings in to a pit of red herrings...how is that fragrance?
You miss one point...the effects of Fukushima CONTINUING to pour millions of gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific are now 'a fact of life' and I would also claim a probable fact of death to the largest ocean on earth.
You are an embarrassment to the higher cognitive abilities of mankind.
Best news article I've read in a long time.
Please note: All caps do nothing to enhance comments, rather it simply makes comments difficult to read.
While I agree that nuclear weapons are a danger to the world, unilateral disarming is not the answer. If the Islamic fundamentalist acquire a few nukes, the rest of the world must surrender to their will with no recourse but to die. Is that what these people want? Do they think that will be better?
These three peace activists (no apostrophes) committed no violence whatsoever; that is part of what makes them admirable.
We may not care for much in the Islamic religion, but please recognize that in our times they are merely trying to hold the beliefs they have inherited . . . it is the Christians who have been trying to "spread their holy word."
"The rest of the world must surrender to their will with no recourse but to die." This is precisely the way Islam, and much of the rest of the world, view the United States, which does have, and has used, these weapons. Either we disarm, or they will arm . . . that is inevitable.
Peace.
oOu think invading a facility, spreading human blood, and putting up crime scene tapes while violating "No Trespassing" signs is not acts of violence? How about I do that to your house? WIll that be OK?
You need to wake up laddie. The Moslems or Moors who occupied Spain for 700+ years until they were pushed out by Ferdinand and Isabella's Catholic fanatics, were more tolerant, civilized and inclusive than any of their predecessors or successors, who imposed the appalling Auto-da-Fe (Inquisition) on all and sundry as well as sending out Conquistadores to rape and pillage the Americas for gold and glorification of the Vatican.
And then there was the more recent UK/US/BP ousting Mossadegu in 1953 Iran from which the formerly most cultured nation (Persia) in the Middle East and one of the most in the world, has never recovered and the west is now trying to contain the blowback.
Your perspective is typically American, narrow and introspective.
Go play with history books instead of fantasy cop scenes!
Quibbling over whether or not protesters are religious is a bit moot. The world would be very much better off if nuclear development had never occurred, but human beings are destructive. The good guys must attempt to stop the destruction.
They also would need a delivery system. The nukes would have to be smuggled into the target cities. That's hardly impossible, but not that easy, either.
When has Israel used nuclear weapons?
Israel has used DU bombs, as the U.S. has, as well as phosphorus and cluster bombs - all illegal, but they don't care. Radioactive materials, although not immediately causing death, will cause thousands, as in Iraq, through leukemia, birth defects, and all manner of other diseases, over time.
You are right. There is no real information concerning terrorists and nukes. There were thousands of various weapons unguarded in the U.S.S.R. when they collapsed. No record of where they are.
A deep sigh here. Coming world events will be ugly no matter what.
They can't keep all of us out forever, in spite of the national security paranoia.
Blessings on these good folks!
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