Nuclear security

Activists raid nuclear submarine base with hammers and ‘baby bottles of their own blood’

The Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, a 17,000-acre installation in southeastern Georgia, is known as “the east coast home to the Ohio-class submarines.”

Bassett said about 9,000 people work at the base, which houses two Ohio-class guided-missile submarines (SSGNs) and six Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs). The submarines are deployed for several months at a time.

According to the Navy, the “ballistic missile submarines, often referred to as ‘boomers,’ serve as an undetectable launch platform for intercontinental missiles. They are designed specifically for stealth and the precise delivery of nuclear warheads.”

The SSGNs, the military says, “provide the Navy with unprecedented strike and special operation mission capabilities from a stealthy, clandestine platform.”