Greenpeace Plans to Disrupt Next NMD Test

By Thomas Duffy / February 13, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Greenpeace announced today it would try to stop the next test of the Pentagon's National Missile Defense system by sending its ship, the Rainbow Warrior, to the Army Missile testing Range at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test is set for sometime between March and June. The Rainbow Warrior has set sail from Auckland, New Zealand and expects to be near the test site within a few weeks, according to Greenpeace spokesman William Peden. Greenpeace held a series...

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