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How KC can start worrying and reject the bomb

October 16, 2007 |

Maybe we just missed the front page article The Star published — or more likely, there never was one? — but the Federal government plans to build nuclear weapons near Richards-Gebaur Airport in south Kansas City. According to this brief in today’s Star, “Most of the bomb parts that are non-nuclear are now made at a Kansas City plant on Bannister Road and shipped to weapons facilities around the country.” Does that make you feel better? Didn’t think so. Voice your concerns at 7 p.m. Friday at All Souls Unitarian Church [map], sponsored by PeaceWorks KC and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.


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  1. patrick on October 16, 2007 12:22 pm

    It still looks like the KC site will be handling “non-nuclear” components and not the stuff that will make your hair and teeth fall out.

    http://www.ananuclear.org/Portals/0/documents/KCP-To%20Build%20or%20Not%20to%20Build.pdf

    Otherwise, there’s some cause for concern with all the other nasty shit coming out of the plant.

  2. ChrisM70 on October 16, 2007 6:45 pm

    I think it’s good that KC won’t be handling nuclear material, but I think it’s incredibly wrong to be building a NEW $500 Million nuclear weapons plant.

    How in the world can the U.S. actively seek to keep countries like Iran and North Korea from creating nuclear weapons while we continue to do it? Isn’t that rather hypocritical?

    I’m also shocked at how little attention this issue has received from the local media. This center will cost TWICE as much as the Sprint Center! Seems like a HUGE waste of taxpayer money - especially when many people can’t pay for their health insurance.

  3. Mainstream on October 17, 2007 11:34 pm

    Did you know if you detonate a nuclear war head 100 miles above the USA it would wipe all of our electronics power?

    That would mean we wouldn’t be able to blog.

    Why is health care a issue when it has always been like this ?

  4. Dickeylee on October 18, 2007 12:27 am

    This new plant is to replace the current Honeywell plant on Bannister Rd that is approaching 50 years old. It will be modernized and more efficient, thereby needing a smaller building and reducing costs for the Government. These are good things.

  5. ChrisM70 on October 18, 2007 6:38 am

    NUCLEAR Bombs made to kill people are never a good thing.

  6. patrick on October 18, 2007 12:14 pm

    The PCBs and heavy metals the new plant will dump into nearby Indian Creek aren’t good things either. The Feds are deliberately shorting this project on enviromental cleanup funds. Who wants governmental efficiency at the cost of a brownfield?

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