Mike McCormick
@mikemccormick.bsky.social
Seattle lies between the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (most contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere) and the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base (largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world).
Fred Miller passed away on 4/25/2025.
Sunday 6/29, 6PM at Center for Wooden Boats, there is a community memorial to celebrate Fred’s life, a life full of community and activism. All are welcome. It will a potluck-style memorial with music, speeches, and an optional seed-swap.
Sunday 6/29, 6PM at Center for Wooden Boats, there is a community memorial to celebrate Fred’s life, a life full of community and activism. All are welcome. It will a potluck-style memorial with music, speeches, and an optional seed-swap.
June 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fred Miller passed away on 4/25/2025.
Sunday 6/29, 6PM at Center for Wooden Boats, there is a community memorial to celebrate Fred’s life, a life full of community and activism. All are welcome. It will a potluck-style memorial with music, speeches, and an optional seed-swap.
Sunday 6/29, 6PM at Center for Wooden Boats, there is a community memorial to celebrate Fred’s life, a life full of community and activism. All are welcome. It will a potluck-style memorial with music, speeches, and an optional seed-swap.
The largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world are based 20 miles from Seattle.
June 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world are based 20 miles from Seattle.
"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nuclear site events there were at (a) Coulport and (b) Faslane in the last 12 months." - Dave Doogan, Scottish National Party
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questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
May 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nuclear site events there were at (a) Coulport and (b) Faslane in the last 12 months." - Dave Doogan, Scottish National Party
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
"The scientists said the risk of an accidental explosion that could spew radioactive plutonium or even trigger an atomic blast is greater than previously realized, although they emphasized that the system is still relatvely safe." - Seattle PI 12/19/90
May 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"The scientists said the risk of an accidental explosion that could spew radioactive plutonium or even trigger an atomic blast is greater than previously realized, although they emphasized that the system is still relatvely safe." - Seattle PI 12/19/90
Mother's Day March documentation video at the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base May 10th (the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world). Video by Peter Bill www.peterbill.us
May 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Mother's Day March documentation video at the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base May 10th (the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world). Video by Peter Bill www.peterbill.us
Join members of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action this Saturday May 10th as a witness to the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world (20 miles from Seattle). For more info: www.gzcenter.org/event/this-m...
May 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Join members of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action this Saturday May 10th as a witness to the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world (20 miles from Seattle). For more info: www.gzcenter.org/event/this-m...
You are invited this Saturday May 10th to witness and join with others, outside the gates of the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, located 20 miles from Seattle.
May 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
You are invited this Saturday May 10th to witness and join with others, outside the gates of the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, located 20 miles from Seattle.
``To me it's not if, but when. And when it happens, it will be a zoo.''
May 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
``To me it's not if, but when. And when it happens, it will be a zoo.''
"Washington state, richer than most in nuclear missiles, suffers from a deficit in emergency preparedness to cope with the radioactive consequences should one of them accidentally break apart." - Seattle PI Nov. 5, 1990
April 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"Washington state, richer than most in nuclear missiles, suffers from a deficit in emergency preparedness to cope with the radioactive consequences should one of them accidentally break apart." - Seattle PI Nov. 5, 1990
"The critical issue at the Bangor Explosives Handling Wharf in November 2003 was not how close the ladder had come to the nuclear warhead, but instead, how close it had come to the third stage rocket motor." - Glen Milner, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
April 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"The critical issue at the Bangor Explosives Handling Wharf in November 2003 was not how close the ladder had come to the nuclear warhead, but instead, how close it had come to the third stage rocket motor." - Glen Milner, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
The happiest words...
April 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The happiest words...
Rebuilding the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement Conference - April 11-12th, 2025 - 9am to 5pm - Seattle First Baptist Church - 1111 Harvard Ave. Seattle
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April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Rebuilding the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement Conference - April 11-12th, 2025 - 9am to 5pm - Seattle First Baptist Church - 1111 Harvard Ave. Seattle
wanwcoalition.org
wanwcoalition.org
The "Rebuilding the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement Together" Conference is taking place starting Friday April 11th in Seattle. See you there!
April 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The "Rebuilding the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement Together" Conference is taking place starting Friday April 11th in Seattle. See you there!
..."between the start of the flights on January 24, 2025, to February 13, 2025, most military deportation flights were by planes stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in WA state. JBLM-based planes have also been used to transport detained immigrants to a detention camp at Guantánamo Bay."
February 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
..."between the start of the flights on January 24, 2025, to February 13, 2025, most military deportation flights were by planes stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in WA state. JBLM-based planes have also been used to transport detained immigrants to a detention camp at Guantánamo Bay."
Operation Crossroads (1946) used drone aircraft for measuring and recording nuclear weapons test experiments in the Marshall Islands.
January 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Operation Crossroads (1946) used drone aircraft for measuring and recording nuclear weapons test experiments in the Marshall Islands.
Interesting intro to the film "Operation Crossroads: Able and Baker Day Tests" produced by the U.S. Navy in 1948.
January 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Interesting intro to the film "Operation Crossroads: Able and Baker Day Tests" produced by the U.S. Navy in 1948.
Map produced by the WA State Civil Defense Department showing potential targets in the event of a nuclear attack during the Cold War. Created in 1958, it does not include the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base (the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world - 20 miles from Seattle).
January 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Map produced by the WA State Civil Defense Department showing potential targets in the event of a nuclear attack during the Cold War. Created in 1958, it does not include the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base (the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world - 20 miles from Seattle).
If you haven't yet been to the gates of the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, you really owe it to yourself to come on out and touch some grass, before it's all incinerated.
January 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If you haven't yet been to the gates of the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, you really owe it to yourself to come on out and touch some grass, before it's all incinerated.
1300 (currently revised to 1094) nuclear warheads. The largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, 20 miles from Seattle.
January 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
1300 (currently revised to 1094) nuclear warheads. The largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, 20 miles from Seattle.
"Of significance is the information that propellant sensitivity is time-degradable, though the degree is not known. Thus, the return shipment of the weapons may create a greater explosion/fire hazard than the initial shipment." - Letter from David Rees (WA State UTC) to Gov. Dan Evans July 11, 1975
January 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Of significance is the information that propellant sensitivity is time-degradable, though the degree is not known. Thus, the return shipment of the weapons may create a greater explosion/fire hazard than the initial shipment." - Letter from David Rees (WA State UTC) to Gov. Dan Evans July 11, 1975
Ground Zero Comics smoothly incorporates graphs, maps, portraits, illustrations and photographs in a clear and engaging, deeply researched, highly informative, hand-drawn story for mature readers.
www.gzcenter.org/ground-zero-...
www.gzcenter.org/ground-zero-...
December 22, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Ground Zero Comics smoothly incorporates graphs, maps, portraits, illustrations and photographs in a clear and engaging, deeply researched, highly informative, hand-drawn story for mature readers.
www.gzcenter.org/ground-zero-...
www.gzcenter.org/ground-zero-...
"Today, seven years after these design choices were made, we have a new and better appreciation of uncertainties in assessing, for example, the probability that accidents in handling the D5 missile system might lead to dispersal of harmful radioactivity..."
December 14, 2024 at 4:47 PM
"Today, seven years after these design choices were made, we have a new and better appreciation of uncertainties in assessing, for example, the probability that accidents in handling the D5 missile system might lead to dispersal of harmful radioactivity..."
If the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base had to post 50 and 10 Mile Emergency Planning Zone Maps, like they do at Hanford.
December 11, 2024 at 8:58 PM
If the Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base had to post 50 and 10 Mile Emergency Planning Zone Maps, like they do at Hanford.
"In the interest of safety against plutonium dispersal there should be a consistent policy governing the very large number of weapons movements whose numbers have typically, in recent years, added up to more than one thousand vehicle trips and one million miles per year." - Drell Report (1990)
December 10, 2024 at 7:24 PM
"In the interest of safety against plutonium dispersal there should be a consistent policy governing the very large number of weapons movements whose numbers have typically, in recent years, added up to more than one thousand vehicle trips and one million miles per year." - Drell Report (1990)
"We must take special responsibility for what is in our own back yard. And when crimes are being prepared in our name, we must speak plainly. I say with a deep consciousness of these words that Trident is the Auschwitz of Puget Sound." - Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
"We must take special responsibility for what is in our own back yard. And when crimes are being prepared in our name, we must speak plainly. I say with a deep consciousness of these words that Trident is the Auschwitz of Puget Sound." - Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen