Hiroshima, Nagasaki and North Dakota:WMDs Discovered Here(BILL QUIGLEY)

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and North Dakota
WMDs Discovered Here

By BILL QUIGLEY

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. These nuclear weapons killed over 100,000 people, almost all civilians, and injured many tens of thousands more.

Fr. Carl Kabat, 72, Greg Boertje-Obed, 51, and Michael Walli, 57, sit in jail in North Dakota awaiting a federal criminal trial because of weapons of mass destruction and because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I visited them last week.

Their crime? They tried to disarm one of the 1700+ nuclear weapons in North Dakota. On June 26, 2006, they went to the silo of a Minuteman III first-strike nucclear missile and wrote on it "If you want peace, work for justice. Then they hammered on its lock and poured some of their own blood over it. They waited to be arrested and have been in jail ever since. If convicted, they face imprisonment of up to ten years for criminal damage to federal property.

The Minuteman III is a first-strike intercontinental nuclear missile with a range of over 6000 miles and carries 27 times the destructive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. There are over one hundred fifty Minuteman III missiles planted in the grounds in silos in just the northern part of North Dakota.

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[kimmerspixelated]

1. Holy Crap!

Shouldn't this be front page newz, or...something that brings attention to this! My God!

[laststeamtrain]

2. Welcome to DU (not 'depleted uranium',BTW)

From the article:

"North Dakota is home to more nuclear weapons than any other of the 50 states. The Bureau of Atomic Scientists estimated that the state contained more than 1700 nuclear warheads, not counting the ones planted in concrete silos in the ground.

A friendly cab driver in Bismarck told me "If North Dakota seceded from the Union, we would be the world,s third most-powerful nuclear state."

[Drewskie]

3. Well noboby lives there... what better a place to have them?

Not that they are'nt heavily secured I suppose.

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4. I live there. Which makes your statement 100% wrong. Congratulations!

How does that feel?

[Drewskie]

5. ND has the lowest population in the continental US...

Dah. Again, what better a place to have them? Duh...

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6. Bigger duh...

"noboby lives there"

Wrong. I and all the other people who live there live there.

I assume you meant 'nobody' & not noboby. I are'nt wrong. You am wrong. And that be the way it am.

And you're missing the point of the act and the article.

[Blaze Diem]

7. Ouch...well maybe Wyoming? Cheney's backyard? Southern Texas..etc.

North Dakota is home to my generation. A very beautiful place..and many great friends and family reside there..
Don't tell me no one lives there.
Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad are both some of the brightest in DC.

I take personaly your comment on "...what better place to have them".

How about not having them at all..in any of the 50 States.

I think Crawford Tx. would be a better place. Not much brain matter would be lost there, if indeed....

Living with the missle silos is not something any of us had a choice in. Its not new news to us.
We have evolved very well around them..and as most Dakotans would tell you..its quite O.K. since we'd be the first to go, and not know what hit us...as for the rest of the Country..awaiting a certain nuke death..Well, I guess its the only way we can accept what a government does to its own loyal and true.