2026
THE PENTAGON
March 27, 2026
Plowshares activist Patrick O’Neill writes: “Friday, March 27, 2026 is my 70th birthday. As a longtime pacifist I plan to celebrate this milestone birthday, and I want to include all Nuclear Resister readers in my plans. Please consider coming to Washington D.C. to meet me at the Pentagon at 7 a.m. where I am inviting 70 of my family and friends to join me in risking arrest for praying the Lord’s Prayer – or a prayer or action of your choice – outside a main entrance to the place that serves as the braintrust of global militarism. Please contact me at 984-810-2273 or pmtoneill@aol.com for more information. The only presents I want are all of you to be with me on my milestone birthday to collectively say “No” to U.S. militarism. All eight of my children will be there with me. You do not have to risk arrest in order to be there with me.”
SACRED PEACE WALK
March 28 – April 3, 2026
The Sacred Peace Walk is a seven day pilgrimage, a 70 mile trek through the Mojave Desert starting in Las Vegas on March 28, 2026, stopping at Creech Air Force Base and ending at the Nevada National Security Site on April 3, Good Friday. Walking by snow covered mountain ranges, sleeping under the desert sky, participating in the ceremonies of the Western Shoshone friends who join in the walk and welcome us to their land, building community, listening and praying together, acts of resistance at the Test Site and Creech, are cleansing for the spirits of all who participate and we hope, cleansing for our planet at risk. For more information, visit nevadadesertexperience.org/spw-schedule, or contact info@nevadadesertexperience.org, (702)646-4814.
LAKENHEATH PEACE CAMP
April 1-6, 2026
Save the dates now for the spring Peace Camp at RAF Lakenheath. Lakenheath Alliance for Peace will sponsor events April 1 – 6, 2026, during daytime hours at the main gate of the British air force base where U.S. nuclear weapons have recently returned and are now stockpiled for ready use in Europe. Overnight accommodations are available in a nearby village hall with a large camping area at the back, as well as commercial options and home stays. Training for nonviolent action is encouraged before the peace camp, to facilitate formation of affinity groups and planning for direct action while at the camp. More details as they become available will be posted at lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk. For more information, email vigils@lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk.
KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS
April 24 – 27, 2026
“It is all very well to say we must go to the source of all strength, to drink at the living fountain of Christ, but can we go from that fount of Love to a factory where nerve gas and incendiary bombs are manufactured?” Dorothy Day, April 1954
Catholic Workers Return to Protest Nuclear Bomb Production in Kansas City
At the Midwest Catholic Worker retreat in September, in consultation with PeaceWorksKC, the Cherith Brook CW and Jerusalem Farm communities, it was agreed that we would return to the Kansas City National Security Campus, (KCNSC) for our annual Spring Resistance gathering. The KCNSC is where 80% of the electronic and mechanical parts for U.S. nuclear weapons are produced, including the triggering and guidance systems as part of the $2 trillion “Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan.”
About the time when the CW visited the “campus” in the Spring of 2024, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) had announced that the old B61 bombs deployed at various U.S. bases and several NATO bases in Europe since 1968, have been replaced with the new improved “more flexible, more precise and easily deployable” B61-12 bombs. Since then, the next generation tactical nuclear weapon, the B-61-13, up to 24 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, has gone into production ahead of schedule. “The B61-13,” according to the NNSA, “will provide the President with additional nuclear options against certain harder and large-area military targets.” The new construction at the already sprawling bomb factory to double its size that was disrupted in 2024, is nearer to completion.
The danger of nuclear war has never been so imminent and in this time of global instability, the Kansas City National “Security” Campus is providing President Trump with “additional nuclear options” that would end life on this planet as we know it.
Join us for a weekend of prayer, education, discernment, celebration and mourning in preparation for acts of nonviolent direct action for the sake of life on Monday morning, April 27.
Contacts:
Henry Stoever, PeaceWorksKC, henrystoever@sbcglobal.net; Mike Miles and Barb Kass, Anathoth CW Farm, Luck, WI, anathoth@lakeland.ws; Jane Stoever, PeaceWorksKC, janepstoever@yahoo.com; Brian Terrell, Strangers and Guests CW Farm, Maloy, IA, brian1956terrell@gmail.com; Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorksKC, annsuellen@gmail.com; Nasid, “N. F.”, Jerusalem Farm, KC, MO, pandaboo18@yahoo.com; Lois Swimmer, Cherith Brook CW, KC,MO, loisswimmer1130@gmail.com; Kristin Scheer, PeaceWorksKC kristin@peaceworkskc.org