The war in the Ukraine has nuclear weapons and also missile developments back in the news.   Much of the news coming out of Ukraine cannot be independently verified but even through the haze of war it has become clear that Russian troops captured and occupied the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant for several weeks and that Russian troops fired weapons at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

It is now being reported that some sources inside the Kremlin are concerned that nuclear weapons could be used under certain conditions.  Today President Putin announced the test of a next generation nuclear capable missile.  

For those of us monitoring and participating in efforts to minimize the risk of nuclear war for decades these are discouraging developments.

This article chronicles a familyʻs decades long relationship with a nuclear weapons silo on their family farm.