Spirit of Boondoggle Departs Quashed Los Alamos Project, Finds New One to Possess
The construction of an expensive new plutonium pit facility has been abandoned. Will it be replaced a collection of smaller buildings?
Nuclear Weapons Laboratories National in Name Only
In fact, corporations not only manage them, but increasingly determine their agendas.
Low Tax Rates for the Rich Harm Not Only the Economy, But Defense
Tax cuts for the rich means less money for national security.
Nuclear Pit Boondoggle at Los Alamos Temporarily Scuttled
The new federal budget calls for Los Alamos’s new “nuclear pit” facility to be postponed for five years.
Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Facility
The U.S. nuclear-weapons program is awash in nuclear-warhead triggers.
The Year’s End Brings Real Disarmament That You Can Touch and Feel
Defense cuts — especially to nuclear weapons — are the silver lining of our economic crisis.
New Nuclear Weapons Facility: “Gateway to a Bleak and Hopeless World”
The fight to stop a facility dedicated to nuclear pits — where the chain reaction occurs — is finally experiencing some success.
Nuclear Weapons Projects Don’t Even Qualify as Pork
The economic benefits that nuclear weapons projects bring to a state are negligible.
Paving Over the Money Pit of Nuclear-Weapons Spending
Congress finally balks at feeding the exotic flowers in our national Giant Shop of Horrors: our nuclear weapons program.
Even Their Beloved Nukes Don’t Escape Republican Infatuation With Cost-Cutting
This time it’s Republicans dragging their feet on a nuclear-weapons project.
Nuclear Pits: Death in Its Most Concentrated Form
A new facility under construction at Los Alamos is pivotal to the manufacture of “nuclear pits,” the heart of nuclear weapons.
Fukushima Be Damned, Federal Court Brushes Off Seismic Nuke Risks
A lawsuit intended to delay construction of a facility to produce nuclear pits — the explosive core of the weapon — was dismissed.
Raise Your Hand if You Think the Expansion of Our Nuclear-Industrial Complex Escapes Iran
The Los Alamos Study Group, a nuclear watchdog, throws up a roadblock to halt a massively expensive new nuclear-weapons complex.
Forces Opposed to Dangerous, Extravagant Nuke Project Get Day in Court
Nuclear watchdogs fight a new facility to build the part that makes nuclear weapons explode.
New Nuclear Project Distracts From Existing Safety (Read: Seismic) Issues
Earthquake concerns not only also exist for U.S. nuclear energy plants, but for nuclear-weapons facilities too.