Scenes of Protest

A graphic showing the areas of operation for Bangor-based ballistic missile submarines.

A 1975 map of planned expansions to the Bangor Base in order to accomodate the new Trident missiles and more efficiently rearm submarines.

USS Ohio, a ballistic missile submarine, transits the Hood Canal near the Bangor Naval Base in 1982.

An aerial view of the Bangor Naval Base's submarine pens, where nuclear submarines would dock and reload Trident missiles.

A photograph of a sailor guarding the deck of a Trident submarine at Bangor in 1986.

A photograph of "White Trains" in the Bangor Base's munitions staging area. "White Trains" were used to transport Trident missiles and components until 1986.

An undated photograph taken by a Ground Zero activist showing the main gate to the Bangor Submarine Base, a common protest location for members of both Ground Zero and the Pacific Life Community.

Pacific Life Community poster for the "Trident Monster" protest week, August 1976.

Poster for helpers to bring the "Trident Monster" across the Canadian border to Bangor on August 8, 1976

Protesters and the "Trident Monster", a collection of black streamers representing Trident-II warheads, at the gates of the Bangor Submarine Base on August 9, 1976.

Pacific Life Community members pulling down the Bangor fence in an act of civil disobedience on August 9, 1976

Artwork of the Pacific Life Community's "Trident Monster" being carried by activists

Artwork of protesters cutting the fence during their August, 8, 1976 protest against the Trident-II missiles and the Bangor Submarine Base.

Pacific Life Community activists trespass within the Bangor base perimeter during the July 4, 1977 protest action.

A sticker handed out by Live Without Trident Organization, a group of activists associated with the Pacific Life Community, in the 1970s.