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A Pennsylvania man saw the true power of Atomic Annie

By the spring of 1953, Lambert would be a witness to whether a small nuclear device could be fired from a cannon. Its success or failure would change the course of the Korean War and the Cold War in Europe.

By Tim Lambert/WITF

American Experience: The Movement and the Madman

Explore the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the anti-war movement
By Christina Zeiders

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Nun imprisoned over peace activism, Megan Rice, dies in Montgomery County at 91

Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died. She was 91.

By The Associated Press
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