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Our sick society uses dolphins to guard nuclear weapons

Military dolphins help defend the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, Business Insider, 

PIERRE BIENAIMÉ 14 MAR 15 Naval Base Kitsap, a marine base 20 miles from Seattle, may be home to the world’s largest single-location arsenal of nuclear weapons, and it’s defended by dolphins trained by the US Navy.

“Nearly one-quarter of America’s 9,962 nuclear weapons are now assigned to the Bangor submarine base on Hood Canal, 20 air miles northwest of downtown Seattle,” the Seattle Timesreported in 2006.

Bangor was the name of a base that merged with another to form Kitsap in 2004.

“This makes Bangor the largest nuclear weapons storehouse in the United States, and possibly the world,” according to the Seattle Times……http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-worlds-largest-stockpile-of-nuclear-weapons-is-defended-by-dolphins-2015-3

March 14, 2015 - Posted by | USA, weapons and war

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