The Nuclear Resister networks the anti-nuclear and anti-war resistance movement while acting as a clearinghouse for information about contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat. Our emphasis is on support for the women and men jailed for these actions. This website is the online companion to the Nuclear Resister newsletter, a more comprehensive chronicle.
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Activist Diane Wilson, executive director of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper (SABEW), was arrested while attempting to hand-deliver her list of demands to Dow Chemical in Seadrift, Texas. She was charged with criminal trespass and released from the Calhoun County Jail after midnight. At the time of her arrest on March 26, she was more than three weeks into an open-ended hunger strike demanding that Dow rescind their permit applications to legalize plastic pollution and build four experimental nuclear reactors at the facility in Seadrift. » Read more…
Patrick O’Neill being arrested on his 70th birthday
by Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
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© Denis Meyer / Greenpeace
A cargo ship coming from Russia is blocked
from Greenpeace
March 2, 2026
This morning in the port of Dunkirk, around twenty Greenpeace activists blocked the arrival of the cargo ship Mikhail Dudin from Saint Petersburg to protest the nuclear trade between Russia and France. For two years, France has presented itself as a staunch supporter of Ukraine against the Russian aggressor. Yet, behind the scenes, the French nuclear industry (EDF, Framatome, and Orano) continues to do business with Rosatom, the Russian nuclear company complicit in war crimes.
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Photo by George Rodkey
On the morning of March 5, more than 40 nuclear resisters of many faiths took part in a procession to the entrance of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor from the nearby Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington. Twelve of the Pacific Life Community (PLC) activists, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, walked into the roadway to block traffic. They held signs and displayed a large banner with a quote from Pope Francis: “The Use and Possession of Nuclear Weapons is Immoral”. Some of them carried small bundles wrapped in white shrouds, symbolizing infant victims of war.
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A 27-year-old Polish Carmelite monk now sits in a Belarusian prison, facing a possible death sentence on suspicion of espionage after reportedly being found with a photocopy of a classified document related to the “Zapad-2025” war games involving the Russian nuclear weapons now stationed in Belarus.
On September 4, 2025, when Grzegorz Gawel was visiting the town of Lepel, north of Minsk, officers of the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) followed the monk into a town park and took video as he met an unidentified Belarusian man who handed him a sheaf of papers. Video of Gawel’s arrest minutes later was soon broadcast on state television to support the charge that he sought the sensitive papers on behalf of Polish state intelligence agencies. It was alleged he had “contacted a Belarusian citizen via social media and offered to cooperate with the Polish special services.”
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photo by Paul Sheldon
A faithful group of activists from the Brandywine Peace Community gathered on a cold Martin Luther King Day at the entrance to the King of Prussia facility of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest nuclear weapons contractor and war profiteer. There were readings from King’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the sounding of a large gong commemorating the lives lost to war and injustice.
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Two nuclear resisters represented themselves at a September 2 bench trial before Judge Robert Forman in Pima County Consolidated Justice Court.
John Heid and Elizabeth Murray had been arrested during a prayerful nonviolent resistance action on Ash Wednesday, March 5 at the Raytheon weapons factory in Tucson, Arizona. Together with members of the Pacific Life Community, they gathered outside of Raytheon that day for a prayer vigil to protest the development and production of a new nuclear missile at the plant. They both were charged with misdemeanor trespass after continuing their prayers onto Raytheon’s property.
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The Nuclear Resister has produced the following series of Nuclear Resister Stories for Nuclear Hotseat, a weekly podcast produced by Libbe HaLevy. In these 5-minute episodes, Jack Cohen-Joppa tells stories of actions for a nuclear-free future, culled from the archives of the Nuclear Resister newsletter.
#1 The first nuclear resisters
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Solemn and Powerful Gathering at the Livermore Lab Gates on the 80th Anniversary of the US Bombing of Hiroshima
by Marylia Kelley and Scott Yundt
Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
The theme of the event was, 80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember our History, Reshape Our Future.
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Photo by Mark Stroh
from the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Peace activists block highway entrance to the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor in 80th remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings
Thirty-five people were present on August 11th at a demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base. The demonstration was in the roadway at the Main Gate of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor during early morning rush hour traffic.
At around 6:45 a.m. on Monday, demonstrators arrived at the Main Gate and formed a vigil line along the roadway. At around 7:10 a.m., four “peacekeepers” entered the roadway and stopped traffic, while behind them, demonstrators held a banner declaring “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Never Again.” Another banner stated “No More Genocide In My Name.”
Six demonstrators then set themselves on the roadway with images of children who died in the bombings in August 1945. One at a time, demonstrators read the names of the children, and a description of the end of each child’s life.
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