Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert and Jackie Hudson were sentenced by Judge Robert Blackburn on July 25, 2003. The Sisters are serving the following sentences: Jackie Hudson, 2 years, 6 months. Carol Gilbert: 2 years, nine months, Ardeth Platte: 3 years, five months. Blackburn labeled the Dominican Sisters, ‘dangerously irresponsible.’

On October 6, 2002, Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert, and Jackie Hudson, cut a chain link fence and entered an active nuclear missile silo site in rural northern Colorado. Declaring the Minuteman III a weapon of mass destruction, the nuns painted the site with six crosses in their own blood and tapped hammers against the silo lid and rusted tracks used to open the lid for a launch in a symbolic act of disarmament. ¹