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KC Peace Planters to hold news conference at 9 a.m. Sept. 8, before
groundbreaking at new site for KC Plant. Direct Action being planned.
Come join us!

For more info contact:

Ann Suellentrop, 913-271-7925 annsuellen@gmail.com;
Henry Stoever, 913-375-0045 henrystoever@sbcglobal.net;
Sasteh Mosley, 816-918-6463 SastehMosley@eastmeetswestoftroost.ws

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National Catholic Reporter
Sept 2, 2010

National Catholic Reporter
Kansas City Bishop questions local nuclear weapons plant
by Joshua J. McElwee

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Calling the continued creation of nuclear weapons
a “grave moral danger,” the bishop of the local Catholic diocese
released a statement this afternoon asking officials to reconsider the
construction of a new major nuclear weapons production facility here.

The statement comes a week before local and state dignitaries are due
to hold an official ground-breaking ceremony for the new facility
Sept. 8 and two weeks after 14 activists -- many self-identified as
Catholic -- were arrested at the construction site for a nonviolent
peace action.

The new plant, which will make non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons,
is set to be the nation’s first new major nuclear weapons production
facility in 32 years.

In his statement Bishop Robert W. Finn of the Kansas City - Saint
Joseph diocese calls for officials to “make a decision for all of
humanity: that one day this facility may be transformed from a
producer of weapons into a producer of goods that benefit all
mankind.”

Currently a part of the Bannister Federal Complex, located about 13
miles south of the city’s downtown area, the Kansas City Plant is
responsible for the production and assembly of approximately 85
percent of the non-nuclear components for the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The plant is due to be relocated beginning in 2012 to a new facility
further south.

Finn’s statement was released on the online blog of the local diocesan
newspaper, The Catholic Key. The full text of the statement is below.
It can also be found here

Various Missouri dignitaries will gather September 8 in south Kansas
City to break ground on a new campus for the National Nuclear Security
Administration. The facility will manufacture parts for nuclear
weapons.

Following is a statement by Kansas City – St. Joseph Bishop Robert W.
Finn on the project and the Groundbreaking of the Nuclear Weapons
Plant.
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Related NCR previous story:

Catholic activists arrested at Kansas City nuclear weapons facility

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