Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, discusses the three nuclear weapons protestors facing long prison sentences for symbolically defacing a building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge; the incredibly poor security at nuclear weapons facilities; why the US still has thousands of weapons on hair-trigger alert decades after the Cold War; and the judge’s refusal to accept the protestors’ “Nuremberg defense,” that citizens must prevent their government from committing war crimes.
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