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Nuclear pit boondoggle at Los Alamos temporarily scuttled
The postponement of the new plutonium facility at Los Alamos deals a blow to both the U.S. nuclear-weapons program and boondoggles in general.
The year's end brings real disarmament that you can touch and feel
It may not be much consolation to most Americans, but cuts to our nuclear-weapons program are a silver lining to our economic crisis.
Is Rick Perry trying to get rid of nuclear weapons?
Abolishing the Department of Energy might sound ludicrous, but it has an upside.
Bottom of the "bucket" list: the Manhattan Project National Historical Park
What could be more tasteless and less profitable than a national park system commemorating the development of 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.
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
Earthquake concerns not only also exist for U.S. nuclear energy plants, but for nuclear-weapons facilities too. 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
Seismic concerns grow over U.S. nuclear labs.
The front line of disarmament: blocking a nuclear facility six times the cost of the Manhattan Project
The first step to disarmament is simply to impede expansion of nuclear facilities. The American public has no idea of the huge sums being thrown at the nuclear-weapons industry.
