Polaris Action

Polaris Action

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1960

Runtime

0h 11m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Polaris Action

Director

Hilary Harris

Description

Since June 1, 1960, the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) had been in New London and Groton, CT for Polaris Action, a summer-long campaign to disrupt the production of nuclear-armed submarines at General Dynamics: Electric Boat and to educate the public about the dangers of the nuclear arms race. Most participants traveled in from other places and, according to the Hilary Harris documentary Polaris Action (1960), included “men and women, old persons and the very young, ministers and atheists, ex-servicemen and conscientious objectors.”