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NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS, 1945-1998 A time-lapse map of every nuclear explosion since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto. On Feb. 28, 2002, USA Today reported on an unreleased federal study blaming fallout from worldwide nuclear bomb testing for at least 15,000 cancer-related deaths and more than 20,000 non NUKEWATCH: THE KIRTLAND AFB NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX Kirtland Air Force Base, which abuts and shares some runways with the Albuquerque airport, has become an important nuclear weapons complex. It hosts the Air Force's Nuclear Weapons Center, Sandia National Laboratories, and what is probably the nation's (and perhaps the world's) largest repository of nuclear weapons, estimated at up to2,500
NUKEWATCH: NUCLEAR ARSENAL 'MODERNIZATION' By Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, Theodore A. Postol. "The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their militarycapabilities.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: KANSAS CITY PLANT The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), whichleases
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: SAVANNAH RIVER SITE Sources: Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex For Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network, April 2009. The members of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network include Nuclear Watch New Mexico along with national organizations: the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Project On EXPANDING NUCLEAR PIT PRODUCTION: THE FACTS AND WHAT YOU Nuclear Watch New Mexico• 903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 505.989.7342 info@nukewatch.org • www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/ NUCLEAR NEW MEXICO- NUCLEAR WATCH NM Waste Control Specialists high-level waste dump. Docs: : WCS Discharge Permit Info. "If you really want a future world free of nuclear weapons, you can hardly make a better investment than to give to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. They need and deserve your support NUKEWATCH: MARSHALL ISLANDS NUCLEAR LAWSUIT Oct 5: Marshall Islands Lawsuit rejected by Hague Court The 16 judges were deadlocked 8-8; court president Ronny Abraham cast the tie-breaking vote for rejection of the case on a jurisdictional issue . Abraham acknowledged that the Marshall Islands has a particular interest in nuclear disarmament "by virtue of the suffering of its people" during years of testing at Bikini and Enewetak atolls NUCLEAR WATCH NEW MEXICO Department of Energy seeks to modify N.M. plant’s nuclear waste permit. Dragging out WIPP’s operations decades past the original 20-year agreement violates the social contract made with New Mexicans, said Scott Kovac, research and operations director for NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX An additional 5,800 acres of land south of the main Plant is leased from Texas Tech University as a safety and security buffer. Pantex is the principal facility in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex for the handling of nuclear weapons in their entirety. Although there have been no completely new weapon designs assembled since 1991,technicians at
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS, 1945-1998 A time-lapse map of every nuclear explosion since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto. On Feb. 28, 2002, USA Today reported on an unreleased federal study blaming fallout from worldwide nuclear bomb testing for at least 15,000 cancer-related deaths and more than 20,000 non NUKEWATCH: THE KIRTLAND AFB NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX Kirtland Air Force Base, which abuts and shares some runways with the Albuquerque airport, has become an important nuclear weapons complex. It hosts the Air Force's Nuclear Weapons Center, Sandia National Laboratories, and what is probably the nation's (and perhaps the world's) largest repository of nuclear weapons, estimated at up to2,500
NUKEWATCH: NUCLEAR ARSENAL 'MODERNIZATION' By Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, Theodore A. Postol. "The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their militarycapabilities.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: KANSAS CITY PLANT The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), whichleases
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: SAVANNAH RIVER SITE Sources: Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex For Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network, April 2009. The members of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network include Nuclear Watch New Mexico along with national organizations: the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Project On EXPANDING NUCLEAR PIT PRODUCTION: THE FACTS AND WHAT YOU Nuclear Watch New Mexico• 903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 505.989.7342 info@nukewatch.org • www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/ NUCLEAR NEW MEXICO- NUCLEAR WATCH NM Waste Control Specialists high-level waste dump. Docs: : WCS Discharge Permit Info. "If you really want a future world free of nuclear weapons, you can hardly make a better investment than to give to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. They need and deserve your support NUKEWATCH: MARSHALL ISLANDS NUCLEAR LAWSUIT Oct 5: Marshall Islands Lawsuit rejected by Hague Court The 16 judges were deadlocked 8-8; court president Ronny Abraham cast the tie-breaking vote for rejection of the case on a jurisdictional issue . Abraham acknowledged that the Marshall Islands has a particular interest in nuclear disarmament "by virtue of the suffering of its people" during years of testing at Bikini and Enewetak atolls ATOMIC HISTORIES- NUCLEAR WATCH OF NEW MEXICO 60 yrs ago, the biggest nuclear weapon in the US arsenal was accidentally dropped 5 miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. On May 27, 1957, 5 miles south of the Albuquerque airport, a Mark 17 H-bomb (pictured at left) was accidentally dropped from a B-36 Peacemaker on it's way to Kirtland AFB. EXPANDING NUCLEAR PIT PRODUCTION: THE FACTS AND WHAT YOU Nuclear Watch New Mexico• 903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 505.989.7342 info@nukewatch.org • www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/ FOLLOWING NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT LAWSUIT DOE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 9, 2021 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, cell 505.470.3570 jay@nukewatch.org Scott Kovac, scott@nukewatch.org Following New Mexico Environment Department Lawsuit DOE Dramatically Increases Funding for Los Alamos Lab Cleanup NUCLEAR NEW MEXICO- NUCLEAR WATCH NM Waste Control Specialists high-level waste dump. Docs: : WCS Discharge Permit Info. "If you really want a future world free of nuclear weapons, you can hardly make a better investment than to give to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. They need and deserve your support DOE NUCLEAR AGENCY CAN'T FULLY MEET PRODUCTION DEADLINE “The Savannah River pit plant will cost about $11 billion to build, the NNSA said in its latest budget request: nearly two-and-a-half times as much as a preliminary estimate dating back at least to 2018. The Los Alamos pit plant will cost about $4 billion to build, the NNSAestimated
WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT AIMS TO EXPAND UNDERGROUND A plan to build two new areas to dispose of nuclear waste began taking shape at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant after the U.S. Department of Energy published a report on the feasibility of adding an 11th and 12th waste panel to the underground nuclear waste repository. At WIPP, low-level transuranic (TRU) waste made up of equipment and NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX The Nevada National Security Site (N2S2) is 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, NV, at its closest point, and occupies a 1,350 sq-mi area. The facility is operated by National Security Technologies, LLC, which is a joint venture between Northrop Grumman Corporation, AECOM, CH2M Hill, and Nuclear Fuel Services. NNSA is the DOE 'landlord' for the PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION Nuclear watchdog groups in the state are concerned about the United States’ evolving nuclear agenda, which will see a sharp increase in plutonium pit production at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LANL recently released its $13 billion expansion proposal to accommodate increased pit production at the site.KANSAS CITY PLANT
Description and Current Mission The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is LANL BUSTED FOR LOSING CONTROL OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES In a recent report, the Department Of Energy’s Office of Inspector General (IG) found issues with the way Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) keeps track of controlled substances such as cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.The IG found that LANL staff had not managed controlled substances in accordance with applicable Federal laws andregulations.
NUCLEAR WATCH NEW MEXICO Department of Energy seeks to modify N.M. plant’s nuclear waste permit. Dragging out WIPP’s operations decades past the original 20-year agreement violates the social contract made with New Mexicans, said Scott Kovac, research and operations director for NUKEWATCH: IMPORTANT BOOKS AND FILMS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has launched a brand new podcast- Nukes of Hazard. It's a 15-minute bi-weekly roundup of the most important nuclear news and some lesser known stories on weapons of mass destruction history. In 1961, a nuclear bomb almost detonated over North Carolina. KIRTLAND AFB NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX "Ever since Gen. (Leslie) Groves established the Z Division here in September 1945, Albuquerque and Kirtland have been at the very heart and soul of America's nuclear weapon and nuclear security program - and remain so today." - Frank G. Klotz, Administrator, NNSA. ABQJournal Kirtland AFB Nuclear Weapons Complex Kirtland Air Force NUCLEAR NEW MEXICO- NUCLEAR WATCH NM Waste Control Specialists high-level waste dump. Docs: : WCS Discharge Permit Info. "If you really want a future world free of nuclear weapons, you can hardly make a better investment than to give to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. They need and deserve your support EXPANDING NUCLEAR PIT PRODUCTION: THE FACTS AND WHAT YOU Nuclear Watch New Mexico• 903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 505.989.7342 info@nukewatch.org • www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/ NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: KANSAS CITY PLANT The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), whichleases
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Description and Current Mission The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is NUKEWATCH: MARSHALL ISLANDS NUCLEAR LAWSUIT Oct 5: Marshall Islands Lawsuit rejected by Hague Court The 16 judges were deadlocked 8-8; court president Ronny Abraham cast the tie-breaking vote for rejection of the case on a jurisdictional issue . Abraham acknowledged that the Marshall Islands has a particular interest in nuclear disarmament "by virtue of the suffering of its people" during years of testing at Bikini and Enewetak atolls EXPANDED PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION EXPENSIVE, UNNECESSARY Expanded Plutonium Pit Production Is Unnecessary • No production is scheduled to maintain the safety & reliability of existing nuclear stockpile. • Up to 20,000 existing pits at the Pantex Plant. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF … united states district court for the district of columbia oak ridge environmental ) peace alliance, ) 315 mayflower drive ) knoxville, tn37920, )
NUCLEAR WATCH NEW MEXICO Department of Energy seeks to modify N.M. plant’s nuclear waste permit. Dragging out WIPP’s operations decades past the original 20-year agreement violates the social contract made with New Mexicans, said Scott Kovac, research and operations director for NUKEWATCH: IMPORTANT BOOKS AND FILMS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has launched a brand new podcast- Nukes of Hazard. It's a 15-minute bi-weekly roundup of the most important nuclear news and some lesser known stories on weapons of mass destruction history. In 1961, a nuclear bomb almost detonated over North Carolina. KIRTLAND AFB NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX "Ever since Gen. (Leslie) Groves established the Z Division here in September 1945, Albuquerque and Kirtland have been at the very heart and soul of America's nuclear weapon and nuclear security program - and remain so today." - Frank G. Klotz, Administrator, NNSA. ABQJournal Kirtland AFB Nuclear Weapons Complex Kirtland Air Force NUCLEAR NEW MEXICO- NUCLEAR WATCH NM Waste Control Specialists high-level waste dump. Docs: : WCS Discharge Permit Info. "If you really want a future world free of nuclear weapons, you can hardly make a better investment than to give to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. They need and deserve your support EXPANDING NUCLEAR PIT PRODUCTION: THE FACTS AND WHAT YOU Nuclear Watch New Mexico• 903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 505.989.7342 info@nukewatch.org • www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/ NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: KANSAS CITY PLANT The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), whichleases
KANSAS CITY PLANT
Description and Current Mission The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on 122 acres of the 300-acre Bannister Federal Complex (BFC), 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The BFC is NUKEWATCH: MARSHALL ISLANDS NUCLEAR LAWSUIT Oct 5: Marshall Islands Lawsuit rejected by Hague Court The 16 judges were deadlocked 8-8; court president Ronny Abraham cast the tie-breaking vote for rejection of the case on a jurisdictional issue . Abraham acknowledged that the Marshall Islands has a particular interest in nuclear disarmament "by virtue of the suffering of its people" during years of testing at Bikini and Enewetak atolls EXPANDED PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION EXPENSIVE, UNNECESSARY Expanded Plutonium Pit Production Is Unnecessary • No production is scheduled to maintain the safety & reliability of existing nuclear stockpile. • Up to 20,000 existing pits at the Pantex Plant. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF … united states district court for the district of columbia oak ridge environmental ) peace alliance, ) 315 mayflower drive ) knoxville, tn37920, )
NUCLEAR TESTING SINCE 1945 Nuclear Testing Since 1945. The first nuclear weapon test was carried out by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons. The first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Ivy Mike", was tested at the Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands in November 1952, also by the United States. NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS, 1945-1998 A time-lapse map of every nuclear explosion since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto. On Feb. 28, 2002, USA Today reported on an unreleased federal study blaming fallout from worldwide nuclear bomb testing for at least 15,000 cancer-related deaths and more than 20,000 non $72.6 BILLION. THAT'S HOW MUCH THE NINE NUCLEAR-ARMED $72.6 billion. That’s how much the nine nuclear-armed states spent on their nuclear weapons in 2020 during the worst pandemic in a century and when the treaty banning nuclear weapons became law, according to a new ICAN report. It’s an inflation-adjusted increaseof
CLEANUP FUNDING REQUEST AT LOS ALAMOS WOULD BE NEEDED DOE Environmental Management released the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Congressional Budget Request and asked for a $107.5 million increase over last year for legacy cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).The FY22 EM funding request for cleanup at LANL totaled $333.5 million, which was a record request for cleanup at the Lab.. The Budget Request gives lifecycle costs. NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX An additional 5,800 acres of land south of the main Plant is leased from Texas Tech University as a safety and security buffer. Pantex is the principal facility in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex for the handling of nuclear weapons in their entirety. Although there have been no completely new weapon designs assembled since 1991,technicians at
NUKEWATCH: NUCLEAR ARSENAL 'MODERNIZATION' By Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, Theodore A. Postol. "The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their militarycapabilities.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX: SAVANNAH RIVER SITE Sources: Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex For Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network, April 2009. The members of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network include Nuclear Watch New Mexico along with national organizations: the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Project On NEW COMPANY SOUGHT TO OPERATE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT Little change to workforce, operations expected Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus | June 6, 2021 A new primary contractor could be coming to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as the U.S. Department of Energy sought bids from prospective contractors for the management and operations of the nuclear waste site near Carlsbad. FOLLOWING NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT LAWSUIT DOE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 9, 2021 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, cell 505.470.3570 jay@nukewatch.org Scott Kovac, scott@nukewatch.org Following New Mexico Environment Department Lawsuit DOE Dramatically Increases Funding for Los Alamos Lab Cleanup WAR AND THE ENVIRONMENT: JUNE 7 War and the Environment: June 7 – July 18, 2021 Online Course. Start: Monday, June 07, 2021 • 12:00 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00) End: Sunday, July 18, 2021 • 12:00 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00) Host Contact Info: Phill: education@worldbeyondwar.orgSkip to content
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“THOSE WHO SACRIFICED FOR OUR COUNTRY’S NATIONAL SECURITY, IN SOME CASES UNKNOWINGLY, SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DOUBLY FEAR THIS CRISIS,” — _GROUPS DEMAND RELIEF FOR NUCLEAR FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES_
> Over 120 local and national organizations are urging the U.S. > Congress to provide assistance to nuclear frontline communities. Every year, Los Alamos National Laboratory produces 7 million pounds of chemical waste and 15,000 pounds of low-level radioactive waste, as well as more than 700 cubic yards of more highly radioactive waste, according to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION IN THE TIME OF COVID-19Posted on Mar.29,
2020 in CRS by Steven Aftergood In principle, the COVID-19 outbreak could provide a compelling new justification for expediting the processing of certain Freedom of Information Act requests related to the pandemic. But it is more likely to slow down the handling of most requests as agency employees work remotely and other concerns are understandably prioritized. The impact of COVID-19 was surveyed by the Congressional Research Service in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Processing Changes Due to COVID-19: In Brief ,March 27, 2020.
LANL’S CENTRAL MISSION: Los Alamos Lab officials have recently claimed that LANL has moved away from primarily nuclear weapons to “national security”, but what truly remains as the Labs central mission? Here’s the answer from one of its own documents: LANL’s “Central Mission”- Presented at: RPI Nuclear Data 2011 Symposium for Criticality Safety and Reactor Applications _(PDF)4/27/11_
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SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL FROM GERMANY TO SRS? DUMPING-FOR-PROFIT SCHEME DRAGS ON & ON & SHOULD BE TERMINATED FOIA DOCUMENTS CONFIRM PROFITEERS STILL PURSUING SCHEME TO DUMP HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE GERMAN SPENT FUEL (GRAPHITE “PEBBLES”) AT SRS – SHOULD BE TERMINATED SRS and the German entity Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN) are still working on the scheme to import German highly radioactive graphite spent fuel from the Jülich, Germany storage site to SRS for reprocessing and dumping. That this bad idea to import the nuclear waste in large CASTOR casks is continuing has been confirmed in documents obtained by SRS Watch in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request received onApril 7, 2020.
SRS Watch first alerted the public in 2013 – at a SRS Citizens Advisory Board meeting – that the US-Germany waste deal was at hand, forcing SRS to admit that was indeed the case. Pursuit of he deal has been dragging on since 2012.Continue reading
HOW NUCLEAR FORCES WORLDWIDE ARE DEALING WITH THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICBy: John Krzyzaniak
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In recent weeks, the coronavirus outbreak has elicited at least a few tone-deaf comments from top US defense officials about the readiness of their nuclear forces. In mid-March, the commander of US Strategic Command, Adm. Charles Richard, reassured his audiencethat
the United States’ nuclear forces had not been adversely affected by the pandemic and that they “remain ready to execute the nation’s strategic deterrence mission.” In effect, Adm. Richard was telling his audience that the United States was still capable of launching a massive nuclear retaliation that would undoubtedly kill millions. Similarly, at the beginning of April, the commander of the US Air Force’s Global Strike Command told_Popular
Mechanics _that, despite the COVID-19 outbreak, “its nukes are still ready to fly.” THESE OFFICIALS WERE APPARENTLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE NOTION THAT, WITH THE PANDEMIC ALREADY CAUSING ENOUGH FEAR AND DREAD ON ITS OWN, NOW MAY NOT BE THE BEST TIME TO REMIND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT OTHER WAYS THE WORLD COULD END.Continue reading
WHAT THE UNITED STATES LOSES BY QUITTING THE OPEN SKIES TREATY, IN ONECHART
REPORTS EMERGED THIS WEEK THAT THE WHITE HOUSE MAY BE MOVING “SOON”
ON WITHDRAWING FROM THE OPEN SKIES TREATY, A NEARLY TWO-DECADE-OLD AGREEMENT THAT ALLOWS 34 COUNTRIES TO FLY AND SHARE RECONNAISSANCE MISSIONS OVER EACH OTHER TO PROMOTE MILITARY COOPERATION ANDTRANSPARENCY.
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Last month, defense secretary Mark Esper said he was freezing a long-overdue replacement of the aging OC-135B aircraft used for flights under the treaty. “Until we make a final decision on the path forward, I am not prepared to recapitalize aircraft,”Esper told
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Senate Armed Services Committee. Although more than 1,500 observation flights have been flown since the treaty took effect in 2002, vocal Republican opponents like Sens. Tom Cotton, Richard Burr, and Ted Cruz claim its benefit is “marginal” because
US satellites make aerial imagery unnecessary, and the United States gives up more to its adversaries under the treaty than it gains. Their criticism extends from complaints about the costs of the OC-135B upgrade to protests over Russian compliance with the treaty—specifically, restrictions on missions flown over Kaliningrad and along Russia’s border with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Cotton and Cruz introduced a resolutioncalling
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NNSA PRODUCTION SITES HUNKER DOWN AMID COVID-19 CRISIS ALL BUT ONE OF THE MAIN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION SITES HAVE NOW HUNKERED DOWN INTO MINIMUM MISSION-CRITICAL OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF COVID-19, KEEPING ONLY THE PERSONNEL NEEDED TO ASSEMBLE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND COMPONENTS, MAINTAIN KEY INFRASTRUCTURE, OR PROVIDE SECURITY.BY DAN LEONE
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The Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., both announced the switch to minimum mission-critical operations this week, joining the Savannah River Site of Aiken, S.C., which adopted a similar posture late last month. Only the Kansas City National Security Campus, which sits in the middle of a far worse outbreak than Pantex, Y-12, and Savannah River combined, had not gone down to the minimum mission-critical level of operations. The plant, which makes the non-nuclear parts of nuclear weapons, has reduced the number of people onsite since the outbreak and confirmed its first case of COVID-19 this week, saying Friday an employee “recently tested positive.”Continue reading
THE CORONAVIRUS CAN’T STOP AMERICA’S NUKES RELYING ON A HIGH-STATE OF READINESS, THE NUCLEAR TRIAD IS UNDER THREAT FROM THE CORONAVIRUS. BUT THE HEAD OF GLOBAL STRIKE COMMAND TELLS POPULAR MECHANICS THAT ITS NUKES ARE STILL READY TO FLY.BY JOE PAPPALARDO
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As the world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, nuclear weapons have taken a backseat in most people’s minds. But for Global Strike Command (AFGSC)—the Air Force unit in control of two of the three legs of America’s nuclear triad—their mission remains toppriority.
And it’s an unforgiving business. Nuclear deterrence requires extreme levels of readiness among pilots, maintenance crews, and security teams. Adversaries that don’t think the U.S. can respond with conventional bombing strikes or nukes could be emboldened to actaggressively.
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OAK RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL PEACE ALLIANCE CALLS FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON DOCUMENT ANALYZING HEIGHTENED EARTHQUAKE RISK AT NUCLEAR BOMB PLANT, ASKS FOR EXTENSION OF COMMENT PERIOD DUE TO PANDEMIC THE OAK RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL PEACE ALLIANCE TODAY FILED A FORMAL REQUEST WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION SEEKING AN INDEFINITE EXTENSION OF THE COMMENT PERIOD AND A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE NNSA’S STUDY OF EARTHQUAKE AND ACCIDENT CONSEQUENCES AT THE Y-12 NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX IN OAKRIDGE, TENNESSEE.
Citing a letter from twenty-two Senators that called for an indefinite extension of public comment periods until such time as the COVID-19 national state of emergency has ended, OREPA asked NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty and Secretary of Energy Dan Brouilette to recognize the significant disruption in public and private life due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to respondappropriately.
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OREPA COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT SUPPLEMENT ANALYSIS FOR THE FINAL SITE-WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX, EARTHQUAKE ACCIDENT ANALYSISSUMMARY
The Draft Supplement Analysis (SA) is carefully crafted to minimize consideration of the environmental impacts of the NNSA’s “hybrid plan” for enriched uranium operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex starting with the decision to limit the SA to the analysis of earthquake risks only, and then only to three facilities engaged in enriched uranium operations, further limiting the analysis of consequences to radiation releases only, and then only to humans.READ FULL COMMENTS
DAVID JACKSON — DISCUSSION OF SEISMIC RISKS AT THE Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX AND FORMAL COMMENTS TO NNSA REGARDING APRIL 2020 DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR THE SITEDownload
ACT NOW TO STOP THE NEW BOMB PLANT! THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION WAS TOLD BY A FEDERAL JUDGE TO PREPARE A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE RISKS OF AN EARTHQUAKE AT THE Y-12 SITE IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE, WHERE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PARTS ARE MADE. INSTEAD, NNSA PREPARED A VERY NARROW ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE ON THREE BUILDINGS AT Y-12. THEY PUBLISHED THIS SUPPLEMENT ANALYSIS IN APRIL AND INVITED PUBLIC COMMENT. _If you want to read the Supplement Analysis, you can find it on OREPA’s website: www.orepa.org . On the right hand column, just under the UPF lawsuit heading._ Your comments should be sent by May 26 to:MS. TERRI SLACK
P.O. BOX 2050
OAK RIDGE, TN 37831
OR BY EMAIL TO: NEPA.COMMENTS@NPO.DOE.GOVMORE INFORMATION
SMITH, COOPER STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE OPEN SKIES TREATY May 21, 2020 | PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Jim Cooper (D-TN), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, today issued the following statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration plans to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty: “The Administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty is a slap in the face to our allies in Europe, leaves our deployed forces in the region at risk, and is in blatant violation of the law. This decision weakens our national security interests, isolates the United States since the Treaty will continue without us, and abandons a useful tool to hold Russia accountable. “What’s more, this decision has been made without any consultation with Congress. Not only does the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act require a minimum 120-days’ notification of the withdrawal notice, but also multiple communications from the House Armed Services Committee and other congressional chairmen have gone unanswered. “The Trump Administration continues to give Russia the upper hand with regards to arms control, which leaves our allies and deployed forces less protected in Europe. Despite the Department of Defense’s rhetoric about the dire need to prepare for ‘great power competition,’ this decision will undoubtedly do the exact opposite, and further fracture our relationships with allies needed to push back against Russian aggression in the region.” CITING FINANCIAL COST OF PANDEMIC, HOUSE LIBERALS DEMAND CUT INMILITARY SPENDING
TWENTY-NINE OF THE HOUSE’S MOST LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS CALLED TUESDAY FOR A CUT IN MILITARY SPENDING IN THE YEARLY NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL — A DECLARATION, THEY SAID, THAT IS MEANT TO FOCUS FEDERAL RESOURCES ON THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.MIKE DEBONIS |_
washingtonpost.com
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The demand, however, stands to greatly complicate the Democratic-controlled House’s ability to advance the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the most consequential must-pass measures that Congress assembles each year. It is likely to generate objections from Republicans and more moderate Democrats alike — and create headaches for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and herleadership team.
The signers are almost all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including lead sponsors Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Mark Pocan (Wis.), who have long called for lower levels of Pentagon spending to free more resources for domestic spending. But the pandemic, they argue, presents a new imperative for defense cuts.Continue reading
SCUTTLEBIZ: WILL ‘PIT PRODUCTION’ SAVE SRS? “DON’T BE LULLED INTO A FALSE SENSE OF URGENCY BY THE FEDERAL LAW “REQUIRING” PIT PRODUCTION BEGIN BY 2030. THAT LAW CARRIES AS MUCH WEIGHT AS THE 1982 FEDERAL ACT REQUIRING THE NATION TO HAVE A NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN 12 YEARS AGO. STILL WAITING…” DAMON CLINE |_ augustachronicle.com_
It’s a choice that – from a local economic development perspective – isn’t much of a choice. Here it is: 1) Convert the SAVANNAH RIVER SITE’S unfinished MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY into a nuclear weapons plant; or 2) Let the MOX plant keep rotting while New Mexico’s LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY continues producing the nation’s stockpile of “plutonium pits.” Considering that about $9 billion is at stake, and that SRS needs a new “mission,” I believe it’s safe to assume local leaders want what’s behind Door No. 1. The NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION laid out the two alternatives last month in a draft environmental impact study addressing the nation’s need to manufacture 80 new nuclear weapon cores a year by 2030.Continue reading
HUGE DEFICIT = DEFENSE BUDGET CUTS? MAYBE NOT THE CONGRESSIONAL CALENDAR AND STRATEGIC INERTIA MAY COME TOGETHER TO KEEP THE DEFENSE BUDGET RELATIVELY HIGH. THE CALENDAR HELPS BECAUSE THE FISCAL 2021 DEFENSE BUDGET WILL LIKELY BE PASSED WHILE CONGRESS IS IN A FREE-SPENDING MOOD.BY: MARK CANCIAN |_
breakingdefense.com
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The current Washington consensus sees deep defense budget cuts in the face of soaring deficits driven by the emergency legislation to stabilize the American economy as it reels from the effects of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
It may be wrong. The congressional calendar and strategic inertia may come together to keep the defense budget relatively high. The calendar helps because the fiscal 2021 defense budget will likely be passed while Congress is in a free-spending mood. The next administration — Republican or Democratic — will develop budgets beyond that, but the constraints of long-standing strategy will prevent major changes to force structure and acquisition that would drive deep budget cuts.Continue reading
WILL THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ACCUSATIONS DOOM THE NUCLEAR TESTBAN TREATY?
“ALTHOUGH US ACCUSATIONS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE TRUE, THEY COULD GIVE A CONVENIENT PRETEXT TO OFFICIALS WHO WANT TO WITHDRAW THE US SIGNATURE FROM THE TREATY, ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO RESUME ITS OWN NUCLEAR TESTING. IN FACT, THAT MAY BE THE ENTIRE POINT.”ANDREAS PERSBO |_
thebulletin.org
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In April, while most of the world was focused on defeating a devastating viral pandemic, the US State Department quietly released its annual compliance report,
describing whether and how the United States and other countries have been abiding by various arms control agreements. The report is sober reading for those hoping that the coronavirus would usher in a new era of international collaboration. The report made wavesfor
raising “concerns” about China’s adherence to a “zero-yield” nuclear testing standard, as called for by the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Although neither the United States or China has ratified the treaty, both have signed it, and both claim to abide by a nuclear testing moratorium.Continue reading
RELEASED FROM SILENCE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF THE DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM “THE ATOMIC SOLDIERS” “The Atomic Soldiers” lets the veterans who witnessed the Hood test in Nevada tell their own stories. But the painful memories sometimes choke their recollections, leaving long and moving silences in place of words. “You don’t send 14,000 troops through ground zero and not call it anything but genocide,” says one.Continue reading
GROUND U.S.-NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMACY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, IT IS CLEAR THAT COOPERATIVE MEASURES TO TACKLE MODERN-DAY GLOBAL SECURITY THREATS ARE CRITICAL. By: Alicia Sanders-Zakre, _FORMER
NUKEWATCH NM SUMMER INTERN_ |_ nationalinterest.org_
In the years since the summits between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore and Hanoi,
U.S.-North Korean diplomacy has fizzled to a halt. This is a grave mistake. Both North Korea and the United States need to get serious about reviving diplomatic efforts to eliminate their nuclear weapons. In the midst of a global pandemic, it is clear that cooperative measures to tackle modern-day global security threats are critical. North Korean and U.S. nuclear weapons put the rest of the world at risk—and drain valuable resources from needed economic recovery efforts and social services. ICAN estimated that together North Korea and the United States spent $36 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. The United States spent $35.4 billion and North Korea spent about $0.6 billion.Continue reading
TRUMP ADMIN SPRINTS TO WEAKEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS DURINGPANDEMIC
‘THERE’S A LOT THEY WANT TO GET DONE BEFORE THE ELECTION, JUST INCASE.’
BY: EMILY HOLDEN
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_hcn.com
THIS PIECE WAS PUBLISHED BY THE GUARDIAN_
The Trump administrationis
diligently weakening U.S. environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing its rollback as the November election approaches. During the COVID-19 lockdown, U.S. federal agencies have eased fuel-efficiency standards for new cars;
frozen rules for soot air pollution;
proposed to drop review requirements for liquefied natural gas terminals; continued to lease public property to oil and gas companies; sought to speed up permitting for offshore fish farms; and advanced a proposal on mercury pollution from power plants that could make it easier for the government to conclude regulations are too costly to justify their benefits.Continue reading
PIT PRODUCTION MUST ‘PRESS FORWARD’ DESPITE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC,NNSA CHIEF SAYS
PREPARATIONS AND PLANNING FOR PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION MUST CONTINUE AMID THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, A “DIFFICULT” AND CHALLENGING TIME, NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION CHIEF LISA GORDON-HAGERTY WROTE IN A RECENT LETTER.BY: COLIN DEMAREST
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_aikenstandard.com
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> “The plutonium pit production mission is one of our highest > national security priorities and is being done in accordance with > congressional direction,” Gordon-Hagerty wrote to U.S. Sen. Tom > Udall , a New Mexico Democrat. > “We must press forward with this project in order to meet > Department of Defense deliverables.” UDALL AND U.S. SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH, ANOTHER NEW MEXICO DEMOCRAT, IN LATE APRIL WROTE TO THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, ASKING THE WEAPONS-AND-NONPROLIFERATION AGENCY TO EXTEND A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TIED TO PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, NEAR ALBUQUERQUE AND SANTA FE. Gordon-Hagerty in her April 30 response said she appreciated the “interest in this matter” and that she takes the “concerns veryseriously.”
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MOVING FORWARD WITH THE W93 SLBM WARHEAD STRENGTHENS U.S. AND BRITISHSECURITY
BY: Linton F. Brooks, John R.
Harvey
& Franklin
C. Miller
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_realcleardefense.com_
In his 2009 Prague speech, President Obama declared that “As long as weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal to deter any adversary, and guarantee that defense to our allies.” To ensure that goal, he advanced a modernization program for America’s aging nuclear forces. President Trump, in his 2018 review of U.S. nuclear posture, reaffirmed that commitment and carried forward the program for force modernization that now will include a new program for a modern SLBM warhead—the so-called W93 to be carried in a new Mark 7 reentryvehicle.
The requirement to maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal is often taken to mean the replacement of America’s aging strategic triad forces and their command and control. That effort, while truly vital, is only half what is needed.Continue reading
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Social distancing will be observed as participants hear speakers urge legislators to “Move the Money” from militarism to humanitarianism. Among the speakers will be spokespersons for PeaceWorks KC, the Poor People’s Campaign, Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and Vets for Peace.MORE INFORMATION
DEADLINE FOR FORMAL PUBLIC COMMENTS * May 26 Y-12 Supplement Analysis on Uranium Processing Facilityseismic issues.
* June 2 for Savannah River Site draft environmental impact statement on plutonium pit production. * July 22 Holtec Consolidated Interim Storage on high-level waste so-called interim storage. DEADLINE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON NUKE WASTE SITE EXTENDED The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the public comment period for a draft environmental impact statement of Holtec International’s proposed nuclear waste storage facility in southeastNew Mexico.
THE COMMENT DEADLINE IS NOW JULY 22.Continue reading
COMMENTS NOW DUE JUNE 2ND: PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT SAVANNAH RIVERSITE
NNSA EXTENDS BY 15 DAYS COMMENT PERIOD ON DRAFT EIS ON PROPOSED SAVANNAH RIVER SITE PLUTONIUM BOMB PLANT — EXTENDED FROM MAY 18 TOABOUT JUNE 2
THE DOE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (NNSA) IS PREPARING AN EIS THAT EVALUATES THE POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ALTERNATIVES FOR PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE (SRS) IN SOUTH CAROLINA.Continue reading
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SAVE THE DATES: AUGUST 5-9NUCLEAR NEWS
REMEMBERING DAVE FREEMAN – GREEN COWBOY, PIONEER OF U.S. ENERGYPOLICY
May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 ARJUN MAKHIJANI | _IEER.ORG_
It was 1970. Dave Freeman had transitioned from being an energy advisor in Johnson’s White House to Nixon’s. At one of our lunches since he had moved to Washington, D.C. after retiring as the Chairman of the Port of Los Angeles, he recounted a conversation with John Ehrlichman , Nixon’s assistant for domestic policy: > “Ehrlichman told me ‘Dave, you had better get out of here. > Things are going to get very hot and nasty in the coming campaign > . This is no place for a Democrat like you.’” Dave found a most interesting and, as it turned out, historic exit. He convinced the Ford Foundation to give him four million dollars (about twenty five million in today’s money) to establish the Energy Policy Project within the Foundation. It would approach energy policy comprehensively; among other things it would explore how much of energy supply could be replaced by energy efficiency.Continue reading
May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 RUSSIAN OFFICIALS HAVE ALREADY REPEATEDLY WARNED IN THE PAST THAT ITS EASTERN EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS’ DECISION TO HOST US-MADE STRATEGIC SYSTEMS, INCLUDING COMPONENTS OF AMERICA’S AEGIS ASHORE MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM, MAKE THEM TARGETS FOR RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC NUCLEAR RESPONSE IN THE EVENT OF A WAR._SPUTNIKNEWS.COM
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The redeployment of US nuclear weapons from Germany to Poland would be a direct violation of the Russia-NATO founding act of 1997, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. > “This would be a direct violation of the Founding Act on Mutual > Relations between Russia and NATO, in which NATO undertook not to > place nuclear weapons in the territory of new members of the North > Atlantic Alliance, either at that moment or in the future…I doubt > that these mechanisms will be implemented in practical terms,” > Lavrov said, speaking to reporters following a videoconference-based > meeting of the Council of Baltic Sea States on Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the redeployment of US nuclear weapons from Germany to Poland would serve to further damage already-strained Russia-NATO relations and escalate tensions.Continue reading
ENERGY DEPARTMENT NOMINEE SHIFTS ON YUCCA MOUNTAIN QUESTION May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 “THE ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT BE PURSUING YUCCA MOUNTAIN AS A SOLUTION FOR NUCLEAR WASTE, AND I AM FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE PRESIDENT’S DECISION AND APPLAUD HIM FOR TAKING ACTION WHEN SO MANY HAVE FAILED TO DO SO,” MENEZES TOLD CORTEZ MASTO.BY GARY MARTIN |
_REVIEWJOURNAL.COM
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A contractor
walks into the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury on Saturday, July 14, 2018. (Chase Stevens Las Vegas Review-Journal @csstevensphoto) WASHINGTON — Mark Menezes, the nominee for deputy secretary of the Energy Department, on Wednesday clarified remarks he made in February, saying the Trump administration has no plans to use Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste storage site. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., pressed Menezes during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, asking for a clarification.Continue reading
RAYTHEON TO CLOSE ABQ SITE May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORP. IS SHUTTING DOWN OPERATIONS AT THE SANDIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES PARK IN SOUTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE, WHERE THE COMPANY EMPLOYS ABOUT 200 PEOPLE. BY KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA| _ABQJOURNAL.COM
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RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES IS CLOSING ITS FACILITY AT SANDIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES PARK IN ALBUQUERQUE AND LAYING OFF SOME OF ITS 200 LOCAL EMPLOYEES. (ADOLPHE PIERRE-LOUIS/JOURNAL) _Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal_ Raytheon’s Albuquerque operations will be transferred to other company facilities outside of New Mexico, company spokesperson Heather Uberuaga told the Journal Tuesday. > “After careful and deliberate consideration, Raytheon Technologies > has chosen to close the company’s Albuquerque facility and > relocate support for key capabilities and customer programs to our > other facilities around the country,” Uberuaga wrote in an email.Continue reading
NORTH KOREA IS ADVANCING ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND INCREASING ILLICIT TRADE, NEW UN REPORT SAYS April 23, 2020April 23, 2020NORTH KOREA
IS ADVANCING
ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND INCREASING ILLICIT TRADE IN NEW AND MORE OPAQUE WAYS, ACCORDING TO A 267-PAGE U.N. REPORT THAT PROVIDES SURVEILLANCE PHOTOS AND NEW EVIDENCE.PAMELA FALK
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_cbsnews.com
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The annual report, produced by sanctions monitors called the “Panel of Experts,” is a product of the U.N. Security Council. The purpose of the report is to offer recommendations on how to hold North Korea accountable for skirting restrictions imposed by U.N. sanctions since 2006, that are designed to curtail the nation’s nuclear weaponsprogram.
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THERE’S A NEW WORLD SUPER-VILLAIN (COVID-19), IT’S TIME FORNUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
April 21, 2020April 23, 2020Dingiswayo Mokoena
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_diggers.news
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in North Korea’s northwest. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File) THE Associated Press (AP) this week reported that a barrage of North Korean missiles fired from both the ground and fighter jets splashed down on the waters off the peninsular’s east coast on Tuesday. AP further reports that North Korea also launched several Sukhoi-class fighter jets that fired an unspecified number of air-to-surface missiles toward the North’s eastern waters. According to a South Korean defence official, North Korea seems to be resuming its military drills that it had scaled back due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. This, consequently, pushing back the deadlocked denuclearisation negotiations fostered by the United Nations.Continue reading
SFCC, LOS ALAMOS LAB JOIN TO OFFER MACHINIST PROGRAM April 20, 2020April 23, 2020BY DILLION MULLIN
| _santafenewmexican.com_
Santa Fe Community College and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced last week a new collaboration to revamp the college’smachinist program.
With the campus providing the latest equipment and curriculum and the lab offering hands-on internships, community college President Becky Rowley said she hopes the first group of students can begin working toward a certificate or associate’s degree in the overhauled programthis fall.
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OREPA COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT SUPPLEMENT ANALYSIS FOR THE FINAL SITE-WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX, EARTHQUAKE ACCIDENT ANALYSISSUMMARY
The Draft Supplement Analysis (SA) is carefully crafted to minimize consideration of the environmental impacts of the NNSA’s “hybrid plan” for enriched uranium operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex starting with the decision to limit the SA to the analysis of earthquake risks only, and then only to three facilities engaged in enriched uranium operations, further limiting the analysis of consequences to radiation releases only, and then only to humans.READ FULL COMMENTS
DAVID JACKSON — DISCUSSION OF SEISMIC RISKS AT THE Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX AND FORMAL COMMENTS TO NNSA REGARDING APRIL 2020 DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR THE SITEDownload
ACT NOW TO STOP THE NEW BOMB PLANT! THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION WAS TOLD BY A FEDERAL JUDGE TO PREPARE A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE RISKS OF AN EARTHQUAKE AT THE Y-12 SITE IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE, WHERE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PARTS ARE MADE. INSTEAD, NNSA PREPARED A VERY NARROW ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE ON THREE BUILDINGS AT Y-12. THEY PUBLISHED THIS SUPPLEMENT ANALYSIS IN APRIL AND INVITED PUBLIC COMMENT. _If you want to read the Supplement Analysis, you can find it on OREPA’s website: www.orepa.org . On the right hand column, just under the UPF lawsuit heading._ Your comments should be sent by May 26 to:MS. TERRI SLACK
P.O. BOX 2050
OAK RIDGE, TN 37831
OR BY EMAIL TO: NEPA.COMMENTS@NPO.DOE.GOVMORE INFORMATION
SMITH, COOPER STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE OPEN SKIES TREATY May 21, 2020 | PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Jim Cooper (D-TN), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, today issued the following statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration plans to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty: “The Administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty is a slap in the face to our allies in Europe, leaves our deployed forces in the region at risk, and is in blatant violation of the law. This decision weakens our national security interests, isolates the United States since the Treaty will continue without us, and abandons a useful tool to hold Russia accountable. “What’s more, this decision has been made without any consultation with Congress. Not only does the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act require a minimum 120-days’ notification of the withdrawal notice, but also multiple communications from the House Armed Services Committee and other congressional chairmen have gone unanswered. “The Trump Administration continues to give Russia the upper hand with regards to arms control, which leaves our allies and deployed forces less protected in Europe. Despite the Department of Defense’s rhetoric about the dire need to prepare for ‘great power competition,’ this decision will undoubtedly do the exact opposite, and further fracture our relationships with allies needed to push back against Russian aggression in the region.” CITING FINANCIAL COST OF PANDEMIC, HOUSE LIBERALS DEMAND CUT INMILITARY SPENDING
TWENTY-NINE OF THE HOUSE’S MOST LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS CALLED TUESDAY FOR A CUT IN MILITARY SPENDING IN THE YEARLY NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL — A DECLARATION, THEY SAID, THAT IS MEANT TO FOCUS FEDERAL RESOURCES ON THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.MIKE DEBONIS |_
washingtonpost.com
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The demand, however, stands to greatly complicate the Democratic-controlled House’s ability to advance the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the most consequential must-pass measures that Congress assembles each year. It is likely to generate objections from Republicans and more moderate Democrats alike — and create headaches for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and herleadership team.
The signers are almost all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including lead sponsors Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Mark Pocan (Wis.), who have long called for lower levels of Pentagon spending to free more resources for domestic spending. But the pandemic, they argue, presents a new imperative for defense cuts.Continue reading
SCUTTLEBIZ: WILL ‘PIT PRODUCTION’ SAVE SRS? “DON’T BE LULLED INTO A FALSE SENSE OF URGENCY BY THE FEDERAL LAW “REQUIRING” PIT PRODUCTION BEGIN BY 2030. THAT LAW CARRIES AS MUCH WEIGHT AS THE 1982 FEDERAL ACT REQUIRING THE NATION TO HAVE A NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN 12 YEARS AGO. STILL WAITING…” DAMON CLINE |_ augustachronicle.com_
It’s a choice that – from a local economic development perspective – isn’t much of a choice. Here it is: 1) Convert the SAVANNAH RIVER SITE’S unfinished MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY into a nuclear weapons plant; or 2) Let the MOX plant keep rotting while New Mexico’s LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY continues producing the nation’s stockpile of “plutonium pits.” Considering that about $9 billion is at stake, and that SRS needs a new “mission,” I believe it’s safe to assume local leaders want what’s behind Door No. 1. The NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION laid out the two alternatives last month in a draft environmental impact study addressing the nation’s need to manufacture 80 new nuclear weapon cores a year by 2030.Continue reading
HUGE DEFICIT = DEFENSE BUDGET CUTS? MAYBE NOT THE CONGRESSIONAL CALENDAR AND STRATEGIC INERTIA MAY COME TOGETHER TO KEEP THE DEFENSE BUDGET RELATIVELY HIGH. THE CALENDAR HELPS BECAUSE THE FISCAL 2021 DEFENSE BUDGET WILL LIKELY BE PASSED WHILE CONGRESS IS IN A FREE-SPENDING MOOD.BY: MARK CANCIAN |_
breakingdefense.com
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The current Washington consensus sees deep defense budget cuts in the face of soaring deficits driven by the emergency legislation to stabilize the American economy as it reels from the effects of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
It may be wrong. The congressional calendar and strategic inertia may come together to keep the defense budget relatively high. The calendar helps because the fiscal 2021 defense budget will likely be passed while Congress is in a free-spending mood. The next administration — Republican or Democratic — will develop budgets beyond that, but the constraints of long-standing strategy will prevent major changes to force structure and acquisition that would drive deep budget cuts.Continue reading
WILL THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ACCUSATIONS DOOM THE NUCLEAR TESTBAN TREATY?
“ALTHOUGH US ACCUSATIONS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE TRUE, THEY COULD GIVE A CONVENIENT PRETEXT TO OFFICIALS WHO WANT TO WITHDRAW THE US SIGNATURE FROM THE TREATY, ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO RESUME ITS OWN NUCLEAR TESTING. IN FACT, THAT MAY BE THE ENTIRE POINT.”ANDREAS PERSBO |_
thebulletin.org
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In April, while most of the world was focused on defeating a devastating viral pandemic, the US State Department quietly released its annual compliance report,
describing whether and how the United States and other countries have been abiding by various arms control agreements. The report is sober reading for those hoping that the coronavirus would usher in a new era of international collaboration. The report made wavesfor
raising “concerns” about China’s adherence to a “zero-yield” nuclear testing standard, as called for by the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Although neither the United States or China has ratified the treaty, both have signed it, and both claim to abide by a nuclear testing moratorium.Continue reading
RELEASED FROM SILENCE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF THE DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM “THE ATOMIC SOLDIERS” “The Atomic Soldiers” lets the veterans who witnessed the Hood test in Nevada tell their own stories. But the painful memories sometimes choke their recollections, leaving long and moving silences in place of words. “You don’t send 14,000 troops through ground zero and not call it anything but genocide,” says one.Continue reading
GROUND U.S.-NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMACY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, IT IS CLEAR THAT COOPERATIVE MEASURES TO TACKLE MODERN-DAY GLOBAL SECURITY THREATS ARE CRITICAL. By: Alicia Sanders-Zakre, _FORMER
NUKEWATCH NM SUMMER INTERN_ |_ nationalinterest.org_
In the years since the summits between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore and Hanoi,
U.S.-North Korean diplomacy has fizzled to a halt. This is a grave mistake. Both North Korea and the United States need to get serious about reviving diplomatic efforts to eliminate their nuclear weapons. In the midst of a global pandemic, it is clear that cooperative measures to tackle modern-day global security threats are critical. North Korean and U.S. nuclear weapons put the rest of the world at risk—and drain valuable resources from needed economic recovery efforts and social services. ICAN estimated that together North Korea and the United States spent $36 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. The United States spent $35.4 billion and North Korea spent about $0.6 billion.Continue reading
TRUMP ADMIN SPRINTS TO WEAKEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS DURINGPANDEMIC
‘THERE’S A LOT THEY WANT TO GET DONE BEFORE THE ELECTION, JUST INCASE.’
BY: EMILY HOLDEN
|
_hcn.com
THIS PIECE WAS PUBLISHED BY THE GUARDIAN_
The Trump administrationis
diligently weakening U.S. environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing its rollback as the November election approaches. During the COVID-19 lockdown, U.S. federal agencies have eased fuel-efficiency standards for new cars;
frozen rules for soot air pollution;
proposed to drop review requirements for liquefied natural gas terminals; continued to lease public property to oil and gas companies; sought to speed up permitting for offshore fish farms; and advanced a proposal on mercury pollution from power plants that could make it easier for the government to conclude regulations are too costly to justify their benefits.Continue reading
PIT PRODUCTION MUST ‘PRESS FORWARD’ DESPITE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC,NNSA CHIEF SAYS
PREPARATIONS AND PLANNING FOR PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION MUST CONTINUE AMID THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, A “DIFFICULT” AND CHALLENGING TIME, NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION CHIEF LISA GORDON-HAGERTY WROTE IN A RECENT LETTER.BY: COLIN DEMAREST
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> “The plutonium pit production mission is one of our highest > national security priorities and is being done in accordance with > congressional direction,” Gordon-Hagerty wrote to U.S. Sen. Tom > Udall , a New Mexico Democrat. > “We must press forward with this project in order to meet > Department of Defense deliverables.” UDALL AND U.S. SEN. MARTIN HEINRICH, ANOTHER NEW MEXICO DEMOCRAT, IN LATE APRIL WROTE TO THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, ASKING THE WEAPONS-AND-NONPROLIFERATION AGENCY TO EXTEND A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TIED TO PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, NEAR ALBUQUERQUE AND SANTA FE. Gordon-Hagerty in her April 30 response said she appreciated the “interest in this matter” and that she takes the “concerns veryseriously.”
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MOVING FORWARD WITH THE W93 SLBM WARHEAD STRENGTHENS U.S. AND BRITISHSECURITY
BY: Linton F. Brooks, John R.
Harvey
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C. Miller
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In his 2009 Prague speech, President Obama declared that “As long as weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal to deter any adversary, and guarantee that defense to our allies.” To ensure that goal, he advanced a modernization program for America’s aging nuclear forces. President Trump, in his 2018 review of U.S. nuclear posture, reaffirmed that commitment and carried forward the program for force modernization that now will include a new program for a modern SLBM warhead—the so-called W93 to be carried in a new Mark 7 reentryvehicle.
The requirement to maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal is often taken to mean the replacement of America’s aging strategic triad forces and their command and control. That effort, while truly vital, is only half what is needed.Continue reading
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11 ESSENTIAL BOOKS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS STAYING ENGAGED IN THE EFFORT TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR REQUIRES AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE IMPACT THEIR USE AND PRODUCTION HAS HAD ON PEOPLE AND THE PLANET. VIEW THIS LIST FROM PLOUGHSHARES FUND OF SOME OF THE BEST BOOKS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS. FROM WELL-LOVED CLASSICS TO WARNINGS FROM THE PAST FEW YEARS, WE HOPE THAT THIS SELECTION SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON THE NEED TO PREVENT THE SPREAD AND FURTHER USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: LESSONS IN COURAGE, POWER, AND PERSISTENCE, AMB.
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A graphic novel by Andy Kirk with artist Kristian Purcell > “The U.S. tested nearly a thousand atomic weapons in the Nevada > desert 125 miles north of Las Vegas…. Did they really build fake > towns out in the desert and then blow the whole place up with atomic > bombs? And the answer is yes, in fact, they did do that…>
> “The purpose as stated by the civil defense agencies of creating > these “Doom Towns” and then widely disseminating on film their > being destroyed was to encourage Americans to be concerned about the > possibility of civilians being the target of nuclear attack.”_Read more…_
1983: REAGAN, ANDROPOV, AND A WORLD ON THE BRINK Taylor Downing, Da Capo Press, 4/24/18 Recently, a declassified report lifted the veil on the events of a week in November 1983, the year KAL007 was shot down and America watched “The Day After”, when we had in fact, a very close brush with World Death. The Able Archer story is a timely and important reminder of the variety of things that can happen to drive a situation to the brink of nuclear disaster when there is posturing and provocation and no trust. Excerpts from the _Christian Science Monitor book review:_ > “Able Archer 83 was sparked by a routine NATO military exercise. > But, as writer Taylor Downing documents in “1983: Reagan, Andropov > and a World on the Brink”, a carefully-researched and absorbing > book, it occurred when mistrust and suspicion between the > superpowers was sky-high. Indeed, relations were so tense that > Soviet political and military leadership believed the exercise was a > ruse to enable NATO to launch a pre-emptive strike… The Soviets > concluded that this was not an exercise but the real thing and put > their own military on the highest readiness level. So fully armed > fighter planes sat continuously idling on runways waiting for a > signal to take off. Meanwhile, in Washington, nothing seemed amiss. > Only much later did the United States realize that Soviet leaders > had been petrified with fear. A top-secret US report concluded, > “We may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet > Union on a hair trigger.” _(source: CSM)_>
More on Able Archer: Slate’s cover story from April 2017: _The Week the World Almost Ended- In 1983, the U.S. simulated a nuclear war with Russia- and narrowly avoided starting a real one. We might not be so lucky next time._.
DANIEL ELLSBERG: THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: CONFESSIONS OF A NUCLEAR WARPLANNER
Ron Rosenbaum, in his fascinating and highly readable “How The End Begins” (2011) notes that when Kissinger told Nixon that Ellsberg was “the most dangerous man in America” he wasn’t referring to the Pentagon Papers but to what Ellsberg knew about top secret nuclear war plans from his work at RAND. Ellsberg had also made off with thousands of nuclear war-fighting strategy documents in addition to the Pentagon Papers, but decided to release the latter first. As it turned out much of the nuclear papers were lost during the turmoil following the Pentagon Papers release. This book, long overdue, is about what he learned then. Ellsberg recalls being tasked to review the strategic war-fighting plans in effect under Eisenhower, and discovering that they called for “hitting every city, actually every town, above 25,000 population” in Russia and China and to some extent East Europe. Pressed for an estimate of death toll, the pentagon came back with 600 million dead. And that was not counting US and West European death tolls. “I thought, ‘This is the most evil plan that has ever existed. It’sinsane.'”
Referring to US and Russian ICBM forces still to this day on alert: “Here is what we now know: the United States and Russia each have an actual Doomsday Machine.”__
_Democracy Now interview with transcript___
_Harper’s Magazine excerpt, Dec 6, 2017_ _Dave Davies excellent NPR interview__at Amazon_
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“THOSE WHO SACRIFICED FOR OUR COUNTRY’S NATIONAL SECURITY, IN SOME CASES UNKNOWINGLY, SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DOUBLY FEAR THIS CRISIS,” — _GROUPS DEMAND RELIEF FOR NUCLEAR FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES_
> Over 120 local and national organizations are urging the U.S. > Congress to provide assistance to nuclear frontline communities. Every year, Los Alamos National Laboratory produces 7 million pounds of chemical waste and 15,000 pounds of low-level radioactive waste, as well as more than 700 cubic yards of more highly radioactive waste, according to Nuclear Watch New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy) “JUST AS THE THREAT OF THE NEW CORONAVIRUS MUST BE MET BY COOPERATION, COMMON-SENSE AND SOLIDARITY AMONG PEOPLES AND NATIONS, SO MUST THE DANGER OF A NUCLEAR WAR… HUMANKIND CANNOT REMAIN OBLIVIOUS OF THIS PERSISTING DANGER TO ITS OWN SURVIVAL.” — _THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS_
> As with viruses, containment of atomic weapons may be good, but > eradication is best. — Sergio Duarte > & Ira Helfand>
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET UNION: WHEN THE PANDEMIC IS OVER, THE WORLD MUST COME TOGETHER “WHILE THE 20TH CENTURY EQUATED NATIONAL SECURITY WITH BOMBS, BULLETS AND GEOGRAPHY, NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS FOCUSED ON 1S AND 0S — THE BASIS OF OUR DIGITAL WORLD — AND DOLLARS AND CENTS. REPRIORITIZING SPENDING AWAY FROM WEAPONS AND TOWARDS MAINTAINING U.S. ECONOMIC, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY WILL PUT US ON THE PATH TOWARD ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY.” — _CORONAVIRUS UNMASKS AMERICA’S REAL NATIONAL SECURITY VULNERABILITIES_
“LET US NOT RECOVER FROM THE CORONAVIRUS ONLY TO FIND OURSELVES IN AN EVEN MORE DANGEROUS WORLD, ONE MENACED BY AN UNCONTROLLED ARMS RACE AND PERSISTENT FEAR OF NUCLEAR ESCALATION.” — _NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO START AN ARMS RACE_
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