What We’re About

Posted on June 13, 2013

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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Man disarms U.S. warplane at Shannon Airport

Posted on April 15, 2026
Mid-morning on April 11, 47-year-old Daithí O’Corrain entered an unauthorized area of Ireland’s Shannon Airport, climbed up on the wing of a U.S. military plane and began to disarm the aircraft by hitting the wing and fuselage with a hand tool, reportedly a hatchet. 
The U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane was parked on a remote taxiway. Airport police officers, gardai (Irish police), the airport’s fire and rescue service and members of the defense forces on duty at the airport quickly responded to the incident, and the airport suspended operations for under 30 minutes.

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Five arrested at New Mexico drone base

Posted on April 9, 2026
On Wednesday, April 8, 15 activists with Shut Down Drone Warfare blocked the entry road to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, holding two banners reading “Refuse Illegal Orders” and “Drone Pilots Refuse to Fly!”. They were protesting the U.S. war on Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza genocide. After about 15 minutes, when officers approached to arrest them, some of the activists laid down on the roadway. Toby Blome refused to get up when asked to and was carried away. Dylan Davis and Jonah Holguim stood up when asked and were accompanied off the road. 
While the traffic was halted, Nick Mottern and Matt Dodson walked along the stopped cars offering flyers that explained the reasons for the action and opposition to the drone killing program. Although they were not on base property, they were also subsequently arrested. 

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Good Friday arrests at Lockheed Martin

Posted on April 7, 2026

On Good Friday, April 3, about 200 people gathered at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Over two dozen people were arrested while praying in the road leading into the weapons manufacturer’s facility.

from Shane Claiborne:

Yesterday, a couple hundred of us gathered outside the world’s largest weapons contractor, Lockheed Martin. On Good Friday, when Christians around the world remember the suffering and death of Jesus, we also remembered the victims of violence today. We read the names of the children killed in Iran, in Gaza, in detention centers and on the border. It was a holy, powerful day. And over two dozen of us were arrested as we prayed and read the names of the victims. More details coming soon… thanks to all who participated. May we continue to stand on the side of love, no matter what the consequences.

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Activists shut down two entrances to RAF Lakenheath, 14 arrested

Posted on April 7, 2026

Lakenheath Alliance for Peace photo

from Lakenheath Alliance for Peace

Early in the morning of April 7, peace protestors in England used heavy-duty locks to attach themselves to a large multi-coloured peace symbol, a car and each other, completely blocking the main gates of RAF Lakenheath for six hours. A second gate into RAF Lakenheath was also shut down by peace campaigners for four hours.

Fourteen people were arrested.

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Two arrested during blockade of U.K.’s Lakenheath war base

Posted on April 6, 2026

Lakenheath Alliance for Peace photo

from Lakenheath Alliance for Peace

The main gates of Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk, England were shut down for three hours on April 4 and two people arrested. Hundreds of protestors from around the country took action against the U.K.’s involvement in illegal wars and the return of nuclear weapons to the base. 

Speaking at the time of her arrest about the war on Iran, one of the peace campaigners said: “Over 600 schools and over 300 medical facilities have been targeted. I cannot do anything but take action against this illegal war”.

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Five arrested at Nevada nuclear test site

Posted on April 6, 2026

photo by Hideko Otake

from a report by John Amidon

On April 3, Good Friday, at the conclusion of the Sacred Peace Walk, five activists crossed the boundary line leading into the Nevada nuclear test site in Mercury. Despite having the permission of the Western Shoshone nation*, they were arrested and charged with trespass.
Prior to the action, a moving Sunrise Ceremony held nearby was led by Western Shoshone spiritual person Johnnie Bobb with Jeremiah Jones assisting. As a beautiful full moon set in the West, the warming sun rose in the East, bringing forth a new day filled with light and hope as the Sacred Peace Walkers prayed and danced as they listened to Johnnie and Jeremiah’s singing and chanting.

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Nine activists arrested at Creech Air Force Base

Posted on April 2, 2026

from Nevada Desert Experience

On April 1, nine members of the Nevada Desert Experience’s Sacred Peace Walk were arrested at Creech Air Force Base at approximately 7:20 a.m. Holding a banner that read “Active Duty and National Guard: You have a duty to Refuse Illegal Orders”, they blocked the road leading into the base to disrupt an illegal, immoral and murderous war. Reaper drones are already engaged in combat by remote control from drone bases in the U.S.         

All nine were arrested, given a citation and released within an hour. The first court dates are scheduled on June 30. 

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Two arrested in Texas protesting Dow Chemical

Posted on March 30, 2026
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. 
On the same day, fellow SABEW organizer Dan Lê was arrested while disrupting Dow CEO Jim Fitterling’s speech at CERAWeek by S&P Global – a gigantic oil and gas conference hosted annually in Houston, Texas.

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Pentagon witness celebrates Patrick O’Neill’s 70th birthday

Posted on March 28, 2026

Patrick O’Neill being arrested on his 70th birthday

by Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker

On March 27, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Patrick O’Neill, a longtime Catholic Worker, parent and grandparent, about 100 people held a special peace witness at the Pentagon, the epicenter of warmaking on the planet, to pray for peace, decry the US-Israeli immoral and illegal war in Iran, call for the abolition of all war and all nuclear and conventional weapons, and to invite people to follow the nonviolent Jesus. It was the largest anti-war protest at the Pentagon in recent years. 
Since last October, the Pentagon has banned the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker weekly peace vigil in the fenced off “designated protest area” on the southeast side of the Pentagon, citing that the needs a permit group and doesn’t have “official business” at the Pentagon, thus effectively prohibited protests on Pentagon property. This is the first nonviolent action to challenge this ban.

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France arrests Greenpeace activists blocking arrival of uranium cargo ship from Russia

Posted on March 11, 2026

© 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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