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Secrecy, even to Kansas City residents, about huge weapons production

Kansas City produces parts for nuclear weapons. We craft huge proportions — 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for these weapons of mass destruction……, Kansas City for the most part has settled into benign ignorance that the plant even exists.

Consider KC’s dark nuclear secret,  MARY SANCHEZ, The Kansas City Star , 6 Sept 10, For more than six decades, Kansas City has kept a volatile shrouded secret, even from itself.

Kansas City produces parts for nuclear weapons. We craft huge proportions — 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for these weapons of mass destruction……, Kansas City for the most part has settled into benign ignorance that the plant even exists. Supporters of the new plant cite a litany of financial boons: the tax revenue the Grandview School District will reap, 2,100 jobs to be kept in the area and construction work.

Among the few, but most provocative, statements in opposition came last week from Bishop Robert W. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.

Spliced with Catholic doctrine, the words nonetheless serve as a primer for anyone interested in a moral analysis.

“Nuclear weapons are by their very nature weapons of mass destruction: their force and impact cannot be contained, and their use affects combatants and non-combatants alike,” Finn said.

The idea of nuclear arms as a deterring force, probably the most favored stand of supporters, is also challenged.

“The enormous increase in arms represents a grave threat to stability and peace. The principle of sufficiency, by virtue of which each state may possess only the means necessary for its legitimate defense, must be applied both by states that buy arms and by those that produce and furnish them.”

The church supports “balanced and controlled disarmament.”

For years, this nuclear work has been shielded from public recognition by the shorthand used to refer to the plant: AlliedSignal, Bendix and now Honeywell. Rarely mentioned is the more foreboding federal overseer…..

Consider KC’s dark nuclear secret – KansasCity.com

September 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons