Six protesters were arrested Monday as they blocked the road to Los Alamos National Laboratory during an event organized to remember the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The protest capped four days of events in northern New Mexico held to commemorate the anniversary. In preparation for the event, the laboratory closed its normally-open gates, shutting down access to the roads crossing the lab to anyone without a government badge. In contrast to last week’s intrusion at the Y-12 plant in Tennessee, the Los Alamos protest was simply a daylight walk up the road to the lab’s entrance by a group of people until they were stopped and arrested for blocking the roadway. The four were identified as Catherine Euler, Cathie Sullivan, Janet Greenwald, Benjamin Abbott, Barbara Grothus and Pamela Gilchrist. ““I took part in the action to throw a wrench into the gears of the war machine. I oppose all weapons and military research that support U.S. imperialism across the world and the occupation of LANL,” Abbott said in a statement issued by protest organizers. They were released later Monday from the Los Alamos County jail on their own recognizance.
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