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50 years ago an act of civil disobedience in Massachusetts jumpstarted a nationwide movement against nuclear power

Sam Lovejoy
Sam Lovejoy

Fifty years ago a man in Western Massachusetts destroyed a weather tower erected to gather data for two proposed nuclear power plants in the town of Montague. That act of civil disobedience ignited what became a nationwide movement to stop the construction of nuclear power plants.

WBGO’s Jon Kalish has the story of Sam Lovejoy.

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