NH #705: Holiday Special - Peace Hero Sr. Megan Rice on Y12/US “Uranium Fort Knox” Protest Break-In - A Nuclear Hotseat Classic

The late, great, Sr. Megan Rice.

This Week’s Peace Special Year-End Interviews:

Sister Megan Rice

• Sr. Megan Rice was a Roman Catholic nun who was arrested more than 40 times for protesting America’s military industrial complex and nuclear weapons-. She’s best known for breaking into Y-12, one of the world’s largest and most highly guarded uranium storage sites – the “Fort Knox” of the US uranium stockpile.
  
  But on July 28, 2012, this diminutive octogenarian nun and two other senior antinuclear activists used simple bolt cutters and their beliefs to walk into Y-12 – and not be noticed for more than 30 minutes! Our extremely embarrassed government threw the book at these three activists, charging them with “sabotage” – a felony with a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. She and the others served just over two years before being released.
  
  Sr. Megan passed away on Oct 17, 2021 at the age of 91, and there is no better commemoration of her life and work than her own words, recorded for Nuclear Hotseat on May 25, 2012, just after her release from prison.

Susi Snyder: What You Can Do to Help De-Fund Nuclear Weapons

• Susi Snyder is Programme Coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. For more than a decade, Susi headed the Don’t Bank on the Bomb project, which was her position when we spoke for this interview on May 10, 2019. Her information is as relevant now as it was then. The report on nuclear bomb producing companies that she references is updated every year. The 2025 report, “At Great Cost: The Companies Building Nuclear Weapons and their Financiers” is a joint publication of ICAN and PAX.