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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Panel Seeks Consensus On U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
By sstamper @ 9:49 PM :: 619 Views :: 0 Comments ::

Washington Post, December 16, 2006...A prestigious Defense Department advisory panel has determined there is no national agreement on what the nation needs in the way of nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War period.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Bush Signs Nuclear Deal With India
By sstamper @ 9:24 PM :: 538 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 18, 2006...WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed legislation on Monday to let America share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India even though New Delhi refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Hearings Begin On Bush's Nuclear Plans
By sstamper @ 11:00 PM :: 583 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

(APN) NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA - "The product is a nuclear bomb. They kill people like you and me," Allison Peeler, a college-age volunteer with Carolina Peace, said, crying during an impassioned speech here at a public hearing on Bush's plans for a new plutonium pits plant.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

U.S. Warhead Testing Behind Schedule, IG Says
By sstamper @ 10:59 PM :: 550 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

"Significant backlogs" in surveillance testing of several types of nuclear warheads in the aging U.S. stockpile have created gaps in information needed to ensure that the weapons remain reliable, a report released yesterday by the Energy Department's inspector general said.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Future of nuke complex up for review, comment
By sstamper @ 8:43 PM :: 753 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

Peace activists are calling it "Bombplex 2030." The government's roadmap for the nuclear weapons complex, including the future role of the Y-12 warhead plant in Oak Ridge, promises to be a hot topic in coming months with opportunities for public involvement.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

U.S. uranium stockpile falls short on security
By sstamper @ 6:46 PM :: 493 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

The U.S. Energy Department cannot meet its own post-Sept. 11 security standards to repel a terrorist force at the Ft. Knox of uranium, a Tennessee facility that stores an estimated 189 metric tons of bomb-grade material, agency officials acknowledged.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Owner says no huge bomb test at southern Indiana quarry
By sstamper @ 8:17 PM :: 562 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

A southern Indiana limestone quarry will not be used by the U.S. military as the testing site for a powerful new bomb intended to penetrate solid rock formations, a congressman and the site's owner said.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Fireworks Deferred: Divine Strake, Hellish Repercussions
By sstamper @ 6:10 PM :: 586 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

Shock and awe is coming home. The Bush administration is planning to conduct future preemptive wars with "mini-nukes" and, to that end, wants to set off a nuclear-sized explosion at the government's Nevada Test Site, sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Friday, June 30, 2006

'Science complex' raises funding, compliance questions
By sstamper @ 6:02 PM :: 755 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

Los Alamos National Laboratory is turning to the U.S. Postal Service for help in arranging third-party financing for a planned new science complex on Two-Mile Mesa, near the main administrative area.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Cold War Relic in Pieces, but Next Generation Looms
By sstamper @ 5:41 PM :: 634 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Weapons

The Bush administration is expected to announce today that it has dismantled the last of the most powerful nuclear missile warheads left over from the Cold War. At the same time, however, a Senate subcommittee has added $10 million to next year's budget to fund a design competition for the second warhead in a new generation of U.S. nuclear weapons.

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