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Kansas city – farmland to be given over to nuclear weapons making

“There’s no justification … to the local economy that justifies putting the whole planet at risk,”

Farmland readied for a nuclear crop, By KEVIN COLLISON, The Kansas City Star, 6 Sept 10, Bulldozers are rolling on a billion-dollar project that will transform a former soybean field in south Kansas City into America’s only privately developed plant making parts for nuclear weapons…….

Despite the ceremonial fanfare, the project has its critics. Also expected at the groundbreaking are peace activists, some of whom plan to be arrested for trespassing.

“There’s no justification … to the local economy that justifies putting the whole planet at risk,” said Ann Suellentrop, a registered nurse who leads the area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Opponents of nuclear proliferation had hoped to gain the support of the Obama administration to block the project. But that effort lost traction when the administration supported maintaining the current nuclear arsenal……..

September 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear weapons