The activists were apprehended by the airmen once they arrived and held until local authorities came. Whichever it was, it was enough time for the three protesters to cut through the outer fence with bolt cutters, pound the concrete lid of the missile's silo with sledgehammers and paint "Disarm" on the casing. When asked for an exact number of minutes, Staff Sergeant Tiernan again said it was "within minutes." But when ABC News talked to Michael Miles of Nukewatch, the group for which the three men are volunteers, he said the airmen showed up "45 minutes" after the three protesters broke into the site. Staff Sergeant Trevor Tiernan of the Minot Air Force Base told ABC News members of the 91st Missile Security Forces Squadron responded "within minutes" of the protesters approaching the facility's fence. Louis, and Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli, both military veterans from Duluth, Minn., were arrested after breaking into the Echo-9 missile launch facility, which houses a Minuteman III missile with nuclear warheads and is located in McLean County, west of the town of Garrison.
A trio of protesters dressed as clowns decided to take nuclear disarmament into their own hands last week when they broke into a nuclear missile launch facility in North Dakota.Ĭarl Kabat, OMI, a retired Catholic priest from St.
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