Between House and Senate Republicans, and those gung-ho for defense and those for cost-cutting, Republicans are diverging on nuclear weapons.
Even Their Beloved Nukes Don’t Escape Republican Infatuation With Cost-Cutting
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Nuclear Pits: Death in Its Most Concentrated Form
A new facility under construction in Los Alamos that’s pivotal to the manufacture of “nuclear pits” is emblematic of Americans’ ambivalence about nuclear weapons.
Fukushima Be Damned, Federal Court Brushes Off Seismic Nuke Risks
The United States can’t have it both ways: ratifying disarmament treaties while building facilities to arm nuclear warheads.
Raise Your Hand if You Think the Expansion of Our Nuclear-Industrial Complex Escapes Iran
The new nuclear-weapons complex that’s being built at Los Alamos is more seismically challenged than Fukushima and more expensive than Project Manhattan.
Forces Opposed to Dangerous, Extravagant Nuke Project Get Day in Court
Nuclear watchdogs take to the courtroom to halt the manufacture of a new facility to build the part that makes nuclear weapons explode.
New Nuclear Project Distracts From Existing Safety (Read: Seismic) Issues
Imagine if a plant that produces a nuclear weapon’s pit, in which the chain reaction occurs, were rocked by an earthquake?
Thanks to Fukushima Light Shed on U.S. Nuclear Facility Located on a Volcano
Like the Fukushima reactors, U.S. nuclear labs lie on faults.
The Front Lines of Disarmament: Blocking a Nuclear Facility Six Times the Cost of the Manhattan Project
The American public has no idea of the huge sums being thrown at the nuclear-weapons industry.
Republican Senate Rejection of START Could Actually Work in Disarmament’s Favor
The Obama administration could punish Republicans, were they to reject new START, by withholding promised funds for the nuclear weapons industry.
It’s Not Nuclear Weapons That Need “Modernization,” But New START
The new START looks less like a disarmament treaty than a front behind which the government can funnel funds to the nuclear-weapons industry in perpetuity.