Stories by Ella Weber

Ella Weber is a tribal citizen of MHA Nation (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) from Crookston, Minnesota. She is a junior at Princeton studying public policy, specifically looking at education and public health.

Defense November 20, 2023

If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?

The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that.

Ella Weber

Defense November 17, 2023

Just One U.S. Reservation Hosts Nuclear Weapons. This Is The Story of How That Came to Be

15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there.

Ella Weber

Defense November 14, 2023

How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?

A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.

Ella Weber