Law Practice
Jul. 21, 2000
Activists Will Offer Constitutional Comfort to Arrested Demonstrators
In the early hours of June 2, 1987, peace activist Katya Komisaruk slipped into Vandenberg Air Force Base. Using a crowbar and bolt cutters, the University of California, Berkeley, business school graduate destroyed an IBM mainframe computer. Although officials later denied it, Komisaruk believed the computer helped give the United States a first-strike nuclear capability against the then-Soviet Union.
In the early hours of June 2, 1987, peace activist Katya Komisaruk slipped into Vandenberg Air Force Base. Using a crowbar and bolt cutters, the University of California, Berkeley, business school graduate destroyed an IBM mainframe computer. Although officials later denied it, Komisaruk believed the computer helped give the United States a first-s...
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