I talked to a local source and the story is that they cut a triangular hole in the outer fence, walked down the road with banners, were passed by a vehicle full of Marine base security and got close to the fence surrounding the bunkers before they were stopped. Handcuffed with zip ties, forced to lay face down and detained for 4 hours, they were lead back through the hole in the fence so they would not have to be logged onto and off of the base which would have been really embarrassing.

Navy officials say the five were cited for trespassing and released Monday afternoon. They added at no time was the safety of Navy personnel, property, or the public threatened in any way.

Evidently there were phone calls made back to D.C. to figure out what to do with them and that is what took 4 hours.

The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, is home to the largest single stockpile of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, housing more than 2000 nuclear warheads. In November 2006, the Natural Resources Defense Council declared that the 2,364 nuclear warheads at Bangor are approximately 24 percent of the entire U.S. arsenal. The Bangor base houses more nuclear warheads than China, France, Israel, India, North Korea, and Pakistan combined.

I feel safer now.