Why is Nevada Desert Experience bringing attention to Creech Air Force Base?
NDE’s mission includes trying “to mobilize people of all faiths to work toward nuclear abolition and nonviolent social change.” While the drones aren’t armed with nuclear weapons (although some may contain depleted uranium, poisoning people and the environment), the United States’ history of threatening to use nuclear weapons and the various ways the U.S. has selectively spread nuclear technology including for nuclear weapons and hasn’t worked to really eliminate nuclear weapons but rather wants to enhance our nuclear threat by modernization, every modern war or conflict that includes the United States, is a nuclear war in spirit, and a radioactive war in practical physics. Remote military systems like UAVs are able to threaten others without putting one’s own soldiers in harm’s way. That seems like an obvious “good” in a military sense. But new weapons get used and used again. NDE has based our years of activism on engaging the opposition, not trying to harm or even berate the opposit
