experts have questioned "the use of private contractors to provide security at facilities that manufacture and store the government's most dangerous military material". On April 4, 2018, seven Plowshares activists calling themselves "Kings Bay Plowshares" were arrested at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. They stated that the action had been planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The activists were arrested, handed over to local authorities, and taken to the county jail. The Kings Bay spokesman, Scott Bennett, said that no one had been threatened and no military personnel or assets were endangered. The base houses 8 Ohio-class submarines, 6 of which carry ballistic missiles and are described by the Navy as "designed specifically for stealth and the precise delivery of nuclear warheads." The seven Plowshares were found guilty on October 24, 2019. Liz McAlister was sentenced to time served, 3 years of supervised probation and a portion of the $33,000 restitution. The other defendants remain to be sentenced. Sentencing guidelines suggest 8 to 33 months of incarceration and/or conditional probation, although they face potentially more than 20 years. See also Bryan Law Catonsville Nine Chicago Seven Civil disobedience Evangelical environmentalism Gainesville Eight Harrisburg Seven Jonah House Pitstop Ploughshares Ploughshares Fund The Baltimore Four Seeds of Hope The Camden 28 The Saint Patrick's Day Four Thomas (activist) Trident Ploughshares Carol Gilbert Ardeth Platte Jackie Hudson Sister Megan Rice Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack Dorothy Day Carl Kabat Martin Newell Ciaron O'Reilly References Further reading Wittner, Lawrence S. (2009). Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Stanford University Press. External links Transform Now Plowshares website A Plowshares website Photo of the slashed rubber protective dome at Waihopai Elmer Maas Plowshares collection, DePaul University Special Collections and Archives Documentary film about Molly Rush, one of the Plowshares 8 Catholic Worker Movement Peace movements Religious activism International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Christian anarchism Civil disobedience Organizations established in 1980 Christian pacifism DePaul University Special Collections and Archives holdings