Nuclear weapons

The founding motivation and ongoing impetus for PeaceWorks is the abolition of nuclear weapons. By accident, design, or miscalculation, those weapons can trigger catastrophic death and destruction. We persist in calling for an end to the production of parts for nuclear weapons at the Kansas City National Security Campus.

Memorial Day ‘line crossers’ come to court

Kimmy Igla and Rylan Scott pleaded guilty for crossing the property line at the KC nuclear weapons plant, and Ann Suellentrop pleaded not guilty and comes to trial Oct. 25.

Highlights: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance this year included emcee Kimmy Igla and speakers Hiroko Komiya, Analisa Colom-Todd, Theodore John, Breanna Crawford, and Lakota singer Jason Swartley.

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Poet Eri Sakata recalls how her grandfather, in Japan, showed her the truth of the US nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945.

‘We gathered as a group conscience’ mourning lives lost at Hiroshima, Nagasaki

As I sat there on Aug. 6, in Loose Park, watching the rainbow in the pond’s fountain, an intense feeling of sadness washed over me.

‘We will make a ruckus on the sidewalk and in the courtroom!’

Kimmy Iglas said recently, "We will make a ruckus." She was inviting people to a rally and hearing Aug. 17 at the KCMO Municipal Court, in follow-up to civil resistance at the KC nuke-parts plant.

If They Were Here

"We can never know the terror and fear they suffered," says Lu Mountenay in her poem in remembrance of the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945.

Reducing risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals

“The nuclear armed states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us,” says this editorial published in many international health journals.

Oppenheimer’s Critique

The Manhattan Project / Began as a creative challenge / Ending in a death wish of nothingness ...

PeaceWorks leader offers Q&A after “Oppenheimer”

Briefly speaking before the movie “Oppenheimer,” Ann Suellentrop told the audience, “The bomb test that you’ll see contaminated 46 states, was a 7-mile-high explosion, and turned the desert into radioactive green glass.” Ann also spoke during a Q&A after the film.

KC travelers learn dangers nukes pose

I and 300 others attended the July 16 interfaith remembrance about the world's first nuclear bomb explosion in 1945. Some 300 other persons joined by livestream. Fabulous!

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