1979
On a bitterly cold morning in early March of 1979, one full busload and one van of peace and anti-nuclear activists left Worcester to go to Groton, Connecticut to protest a Trident Submarine launch (or christening?) at General Dynamics Electric Boat Corporation.
At that time, one Trident Submarine carried enough nuclear warheads to wipe out six hundred cities around the world all at once. The trigger for all this destruction was a Colt 45 pistol, exemplifying the cavalier “cowboy” fantasy.
Crowds of very well-dressed people walked on the inside of a chain-link fence to welcome, bless, and worship that submarine.
Crowds of not so well-dressed people stood outside the fence to protest the submarine death machine that could cause so much destruction. A lady in a navy blue coat and white gloves on her way in to worship, told us: “I’m praying for you.” Someone on our side of the fence said drily, “We are praying for you, too.”
Annals of Nuclear Resistance
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| Peace and Planet Mobilization April 26, 2015 Photo courtesy of Libero Della Piana - used by permission |
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