Since Carol Gilbert, left, and Sister Ardeth Platte, right.Beyond Nuclear has been honored and privileged, over years and decades, to continually bump into Ardeth Platte (pictured, right), a Dominican Sister, on the front lines of anti-nuclear weapons activism. Ardeth was born and raised in Michigan, where she educated troubled children, served on Saginaw city council, and began her anti-nuclear work. In 1995, she moved to Jonah House in Baltimore, where she took part in Plowshares Movement actions. This included a 2002 action, where she, alongside her best friend and frequent collaborator, Sr. Carol Gilbert (pictured, left), as well as Sr. Jackie Hudson, entered a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo in Colorado, wearing white jumpsuits bearing the words "Citizen Weapon Inspection Team." They each served several years in federal prison for that action.