100 Nuclear Protesters Held for Blocking Train
Associated Press
VANCOUVER, Wash. —
More than 100 persons, including a Lutheran pastor, were arrested Friday after blocking a train that they said was carrying nuclear warheads to the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Wash.
Protesters said the train, which began its journey in Amarillo, Tex., where the government makes nuclear weapons at a Pantex plant, was carrying 180 hydrogen bombs.
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