ARDETH PLATTE, PRESENTE! 4/10/1936 - 9/30/2020

Sister Carol Gilbert, left, and Sister Ardeth Platte, right.Beyond Nuclear has been honored and privileged, over years and decades, to continually bump into Ardeth Platte (pictured, right), a Dominican Sister, on the front lines of anti-nuclear weapons activism. Ardeth was born and raised in Michigan, where she educated troubled children, served on Saginaw city council, and began her anti-nuclear work. In 1995, she moved to Jonah House in Baltimore, where she took part in Plowshares Movement actions. This included a 2002 action, where she, alongside her best friend and frequent collaborator, Sr. Carol Gilbert (pictured, left), as well as Sr. Jackie Hudson, entered a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo in Colorado, wearing white jumpsuits bearing the words "Citizen Weapon Inspection Team." They each served several years in federal prison for that action.

See Sister Ardeth's obituary in the Washington Post, here.

And see the obituary in the New York Times, here.