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Fatigue of Resistance: Hiroshima Day, King of Prussia, PA

Fran Sheldon by C.R. Spicer At noon on August 6, in heat index values of 100 degrees, six people gathered at the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania facility of Lockheed Martin to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and rebuke Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest war profiteer.   Chief among U.S. war contractors, Lockheed Martin is developing and building Trump’s “Golden Dome,” a multi-billion-dollar Star Wars continental defense system, at the King of Prussia site, and their sibling sites across the country. The Congressional Budget Office reported in May 2026 that it will cost $1.2 Trillion to develop, deploy, and operate over 20 years [1]. previously described as costing $175 billion over time.[2] The architecture depends on choices of future administrations, but analysis from the American Enterprise Institute reveals another figure, $3.6 trillion. A report by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Back from the Brink, and Physicians...