BOMBPLEX 2030
"Hate begets hate, war begets war, weapons beget yet more weapons to terrorize, maim and kill. If the resources given to war were given to peace, untold suffering would be averted and under-resourced countries would blossom." —The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu
"Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing the power to make great decisions for good and evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." — Albert Einstein
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U.S.
nuclear hypocrisy stuns the world!
While condemning Iran for suspected attempts to join the Nuclear Bomb Club, the U.S. proposes to fire the first shot of a Brand New Cold War by making more atom bombs at all new facilities around the US, paid for...by you! The DOE calls its program "Complex 2030," but we join other impacted communities across the nation in calling it "Bombplex 2030." "I remain unconvinced about the need for this new weapon system. Before proceeding with further development, congressional hearings should be held regarding the necessity of the program and how were going to pay for it." U.S. REP. TOM UDALL, D-N.M. House Appropriations Committee |
| HOME's Comments on NTS Bombplex component 1/17/07. | |
| Reliable Replacement Warhead Program | |
| Act now Bombplex postcards to print, share and mail. | |
| 3/5/07 32,000-plus Supplemental PEIS Comments! PEIS Additional Alternatives must now include continued downsizing of US nuke arsenal, as specified in current arms treaties. | |
| 2/2/07 GAO's Annual Assessment of Safety, Performance, and Reliability of the Nation's Stockpile. GAO-07-243R | |
| True Majority- Great Demo on size of US Nuke Arsenal. | |
| Other Weapons Links |
12/2/06 Veterans for Peace Commentary,
Santa Fe New Mexican
http://enewmexican.com/
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/52969.html# Los Alamos has been
identified as one of five possible sites for a new center to build plutonium
pits -- the triggers at the core of the country's nuclear weapons. However, the
National Nuclear Security Administration this week said scientists have
determined the county's existing stockpile of plutonium pits should last decades
longer than previously believed.
11/30/06; Washington Post, Plutonium Lifespan in U.S. Weapons Much Longer Than
Thought, By Walter Pincus. A report
delivered to Congress by a group of eminent scientists concludes: Most primary
types have credible minimum lifetimes in excess of 100 years as regards aging of
plutonium; those with assessed minimum lifetimes of 100 years or less have clear
mitigation paths that are proposed and/or being implemented. Read report
at
http://www.nukewatch.org/facts/nwd/JASON_ReportPuAging.pdf.
IEER report, The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen: Warhead Safety and Reliability and the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program. Full report (PDF 1.2MB): http://www.ieer.org/reports/nss.pdf Summary and recommendations (HTML): http://www.ieer.org/reports/sbss-sum.html
Atomic Audit weapons spending data, through 1998:
http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/weapons.htm
Nat. Priorities Project; look at the source, of what they are including in their
estimate:
http://database.nationalpriorities.org/ci-bin/WebObjects/nppdatabase.woa/2/wo/1rzcW0dCjrCsnFzLwlSmdg/9.0.1.1.2.1
Nuclear weapons numbers data:
http://www.thebulletin.org/nuclear_weapons_data/index.htm