Biography
Oliver Sachio Coe participated in the same August 1998 Colorado missile-site action as Daniel Sicken, joining an anti-nuclear protest that intentionally crossed into restricted space to make a public moral claim against nuclear deterrence and first-strike weapons systems. The action relied on symbolic property damage and ritualized “witness” practices common in certain faith-based resistance traditions, and it culminated in arrest at the scene.
Like Sicken, Coe was prosecuted federally under statutes treating the breach and damage as conspiratorial sabotage rather than civil disobedience. He was convicted and sentenced to federal prison (receiving a shorter term than Sicken in reported sentencing summaries), and the case remains an example of how anti-nuclear activists have been charged and imprisoned for actions framed as nonviolent but carried out at highly secured defense sites. Sachio Oliver Coe was one of two members of the Minuteman III Plowshares affinity group that entered Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silo N-8 near Greeley, Colorado on August 6, 1998 — the 53rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima — and hammered on the silo cover and equipment. He was found guilty of conspiracy to destroy national defense property, sabotage, and destruction of government property. After he and Sicken told the judge they would not promise to return for January 1999 sentencing, their bond was revoked and they were taken into custody.
On August 6, 1998 — the 53rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima — Daniel Sicken and Sachio Oliver Coe entered Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silo N-8 near Greeley, Colorado, and hammered on the silo cover and equipment. The action took the name Minuteman III Plowshares.
