The Rocky Flats Truth Force was a grass-roots non-violent
anti-nuclear
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, natio ...
group formed during protests at the
Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near
Golden, Colorado
Golden is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 20,399 at the 2020 United States Censu ...
during the late 1970s. Demonstrations and track blockages at the Rocky Flats Plant in 1978 resulted in multiple arrests of the protesters. The
Rocky Flats Plant
The Rocky Flats Plant was a U.S. manufacturing complex that produced nuclear weapons parts in the western United States, near Denver, Colorado. The facility's primary mission was the fabrication of plutonium pits, which were shipped to ot ...
was a US
nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions ( thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bom ...
complex located near to
Denver Colorado which operated from 1952 until 1992, creating considerable
radioactive contamination.
Some of the people involved in the Truth Force movement formed the Boulder Peace Center, later the Rocky Mountain Peace Center and then the current name - the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.
References
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External links
Rocky Flats Truth Force Facebook groupBoulder Public Library Oral History Program recordings relating to the Rocky Flats Truth ForceGoogle Books search for Rocky Flats Truth ForceOCLC WorldCat library search"Radical's Reunion: Rocky Flats Truth Force 1988"video featuring Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Daniel Ellsberg.
Anti–nuclear weapons movement
Anti-nuclear organizations based in the United States
Truth Force