Trident Laboratory Trashed

At 7pm on the 8th of June three women from Trident Ploughshares 2000 launched a boat in to Loch Goil and made their way to 'Maytime', a floating laboratory complex which tests the sonar signals from the Trident nuclear submarines.

Having boarded the lab they paused to hang up banners and then gained entrance through a window. One of them handed out 'load after load' of computers, printers, monitors, fax machines, telephones, computer disks, papers, manuals, etc while the other two threw them all overboard!

Inside the lab they found a cage which housed the mechanism for the model submarine which is used for many of the tests. They cut their way through the cage and destroyed the three control panels for the winch and submarine by cutting electric wires and smashing the panels with an hammer.

The women then tried to get into the control room for the vessel but were unsuccessful. Above the control room they cut an aerial antennae and superglued/liquidmetalled the moving parts of an outside winch.

Having carried out this action the women displayed on a table their police statement, video, 'Tri-denting It Handbook' and several photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They then had a picnic and waited to be arrested.

The action was carried out with due concern for safety ' the lab was not at that time being used for any tests, and, before they damaged anything, the women made sure the power was turned off. All three of them are now on remand for 110 days but despite this the action was described as 'an amazingly liberating experience'.

Contact: Trident Ploughshares 2000, 01603 611953.