Protests in Kansas City Demanding a Halt to Nuclear Weapons Production and the U.S. Arms Race  May 22, 2025

By Ann Suellentrop, MSRN

On May 19, 2025 six resisters to nuclear weapons production in Kansas City crossed the purple property line at the National Security Campus. This was to protest the plant’s doubling in size to accommodate the new U.S. arms race beginning with six so-called “life extension programs”. The plant makes 80% of the mechanical and electrical so-called “non-nuclear” parts for thermonuclear bombs, including the new B61-13 gravity smart bomb. A couple dozen anti-nuclear protestors held many colorful signs & banners greeting the nearly 7,000 plant workers arriving for the day shift. The messages included: “Keep the Jobs, Change the Work,” “Nuclear Weapons are Illegal,” and “Imagine a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.”

Line-crossers included three PeaceWorks KC leaders (L to R) Henry and Jane Stoever, Ann Suellentrop MS RN, also a board member of national PSR, and three Catholic Workers: Br. Louis Rodeman of Kansas City, Brian Terrell of Maloy, Iowa, and Mike Miles of Luck, Wisconsin. The six activists were ticketed and released with Municipal court dates in late June.