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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: June 8, 2010
ANA applauds Senate Panel for Requiring Common Sense Accountability within the Department of Energy
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) applauds the
Senate Armed Services Committee for creating legislation requiring
transparency and accountability in Department of Energy (DOE) budgeting.
The Committee approved legislation that would require DOE to report cost
and schedule overruns for warhead Life Extension Programs, defense
funded construction projects, and environmental management programs.
Over the past decade the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has
repeatedly cited DOE for failing to establish realistic cost estimates
for environmental cleanup and construction projects.
This increased scrutiny of major DOE construction and cleanup programs
is particularly important right now. The Obama administration has asked
Congress to approve the largest nuclear weapons budget in history.
Additionally, the administration recently released a report detailing
their plan to spend more than $80 billion over the next 10 year on major
facility construction projects and significantly modified nuclear
warheads.
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Originally posted on Budget Insight: A Stimson Center Blog on National Security Spending
By Stephen I. Schwartz
As part of its push to secure Senate
ratification of the New START arms reduction agreement, the Obama
administration recently revealed its intention to spend more than
$180,000,000,000 “over the next decade” to sustain and modernize U.S.
nuclear weapons delivery systems and the nuclear weapons production
complex. With Senate Republicans insisting for months that support for
the treaty hinges in large measure on a specific plan to invest in the
future of the nuclear arsenal—and in particular the facilities that
design, test, and manufacture nuclear warheads—such a move was not
surprising, although the actual figure was higher than many expected.
Even
in Washington, D.C., $180 billion is a great deal of money, in both
absolute and relative terms. But there two key questions: How does this
compare to spending in previous years, and how much would have been
spent absent a new master plan and efforts to obtain 67 votes and secure
passage of New START and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org
Obama Bails Out Chance for Arms Reduction Treaty by Dramatically Increasing Nuclear Weapons Budgets
Santa
Fe, NM – Yesterday President Obama submitted the new bilateral
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, which makes modest
reductions to the two countries’ nuclear weapons stockpiles, to the
Senate for ratification. At the same time he submitted a modernization
plan required by Congress that “includes investments of $80 billion to
sustain and modernize the [U.S.] nuclear weapons complex over the next
decade.” Given that two-thirds of the Senate is required for treaty
ratifications a large political fight was always expected over a second
attempt at ratifying the previously rejected Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty (CTBT). However, last December all 40 Republican senators plus
one independent wrote to President Obama demanding modernization of
both the stockpile and complex as a condition for New START
ratification. Meanwhile, the prospects for ratification of the CTBT
(first proposed by Prime Minister Nehru of India in 1954) look
increasingly dim.
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By KAREN DILLON
The Kansas City Star
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it may put the Bannister Federal Complex on a priority list for cleanup. Two decades ago, the agency left the site off that special Superfund list, but now it will reassess that decision.
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for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan
Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: April 6, 2010
GROUPS
IN COMMUNITIES WITH U.S. WEAPONS FACILITIES
RAISE CONCERNS OVER
OBAMA NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW
The Obama Administration’s nuclear
weapons strategy, made public today in the new Nuclear Posture Review
(NPR), is “a mixed bag of inconsistent policies,” according to the
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA).
“ANA applauds the NPR
for opposing development of new nuclear weapons, endorsing further
reductions in the stockpile, and limiting the role of nuclear weapons.
These policies will help reduce the global threat,” said, ANA director
Susan Gordon. “But, several parts of the NPR appear to contradict
President Obama’s pledge to pursue a world without nuclear weapons.”
ANA member group Press Releases
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Peace Works, Kansas City
Peace Action
Tri Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA
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February 22, 2010
Dr. Robert Civiak, physicist and former Budget Examiner for DOE nuclear security activities at the White House Office of Management and Budget, has prepared a detailed analysis of the Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for nuclear weapons activities. His analysis exposes the inherent inconsistency of a policy of increasing funds for nuclear weapons with the Administration's purported vision of a world without them. The report includes a number of important recommendations to Congress for savings in the budget that would not sacrifice the safety or reliability of the stockpile.
To view the report, Click here.
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Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
By Martin Matishak
Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON
-- The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a spending plan that
would increase funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security
Administration to $11.2 billion in the next fiscal year (see GSN, Jan.
29).
The agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, would
receive a 13.4-percent budget increase in fiscal 2011 to maintain the
country's nuclear stockpile and conduct nonproliferation activities
around the globe, according to the White House funding request.
More than $7 billion would be devoted beginning Oct. 1 to "weapons
activities," which ensure the safety and performance of the nation's
atomic stockpile. The amount is a $624 million increase from this year.
Another
$2.7 billion would be funneled to the agency's Defense Nuclear
Nonproliferation program, a hike of 25.8 percent above fiscal 2010.
That effort seeks to secure nuclear materials around the globe that
could be used for weapons and convert them for peaceful purposes.
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for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
for immediate release: February 1, 2010
ADMINISTRATION BUDGET PLAN CONTRADICTS OBAMA PLEDGE
TO REDUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREAT
Billions to be spent on new nuclear weapons production facilities.
Washington, DC - The Administration’s budget,
released today, contradicts President Obama’s pledge to reduce the
nuclear weapons threat by working toward their elimination, according
to a national network of groups in communities downwind and downstream
from U.S. nuclear sites. Instead, the spending plan boosts funding for
nuclear weapons production facilities by $625 million from last year.
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By JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Newspapers
Fri, Jan. 29, 2010
The
Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the
U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years
as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and
eventually rid the world of them.
The administration argues that
the boost is needed to ensure that U.S. warheads remain secure and work
as designed as the arsenal shrinks and ages nearly 18 years into a
moratorium on underground testing and more than two decades after
large-scale warhead production ended.
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
http://www.ananuclear.org
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory
for immediate release Wednesday, January 27, 2010
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY FY 2011
NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET REQUEST
The FY 2011 budget request will be released on Monday, February 1,
2010. The Obama administration has laid out an aggressive
nonproliferation agenda that includes deep reductions in nuclear
stockpiles, ratification of a nuclear test ban, and decreased
prominence for nuclear weapons in US defense policy. Despite this
agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) budget request will ask
Congress to significantly increase nuclear weapons activities,
including funding for construction of new facilities that will expand
U.S. warhead production capacity. The DOE request will not reflect
recent independent scientific conclusions that existing nuclear weapons
can be reliably maintained for decades under current, well-established
programs.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a
national network representing communities downwind and downstream from
U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that increased funding
for nuclear energy and weapons research and production will rob
precious resources for needed environmental cleanup and clean,
sustainable energy solutions.
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