GOLDEN RULE, a 34-foot wooden sailboat, sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to disrupt American atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. More than six decades later, the same boat arrived Tuesday at San Francisco’s Pier 39 to begin a voyage to continue to champion peace amid ongoing arms negotiations between the U.S. and other countries.
Veterans for Peace, a nonprofit organization of military veterans and allies promoting peace and nonproliferation talks, was approached in 2010 to restore the peace boat that had been abandoned in Humboldt Bay, where it sank due to a gale.
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