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In a sketch of the courtroom Feb. 18, the prosecutor, Jesse Sendejas questions Lt. Michael Clark. Judge Ardie Bland presides. (Courtesy of Pat Marrin)

4 anti-nuclear activists broke the law. Their sentencing judge praised them.

A Kansas City, Missouri, judge praised four anti-nuke activists for trying to change the world. "While in the eyes of the law you are guilty, I recognize that there is a higher power that compelled you to act," he said.

Tom Fox steps over a purple line painted on a road leading to the Kansas City National Security Campus on Memorial Day, May 28, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Jeff Davis)
Guest Voices

NCR's Fox crosses the line, goes to trial to protest nuclear weapons

By Thomas C. Fox
Dave Pack updates participants of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance memorial Aug. 5 in Kansas City, Missouri, about efforts to ratify international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (Jim Hannah)

Hiroshima anniversary remembrance mixes mourning, hope

By Jane Stoever

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