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The following infographic was developed by the Project on Government Oversight to illustrate how many nuclear weapons and plutonium pits (the nuclear core of atomic weapons) currently our government currently holds in reserve. With so many nuclear components sitting in storage - why do we need to invest billions in producing more?
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Sept. 20, 2011
By John Fleck
From the Albuquerque Journal
In terms of the size of its budget and actual hands-on work involved, there probably is no more important project to the U.S. nuclear weapons program than refurbishment of the nation’s arsenal of B61 bombs.
Between now and 2016, the National Nuclear Security Administration wants to spend $1.6 billion on the project. And that’s just for design work, much of it at Sandia and Los Alamos labs.
The actual refurbishment doesn’t start until 2017. The total price tag when the work is completed in the early 2020s could be as much as $3.9 billion. Given the track record of the Defense Department and NNSA in predicting budget and schedule for these big “life extension” projects, you would be smart to assume the price tag will be higher and the completion date later.
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Sep 08, 2011
By Nickolas Roth
From the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation's Nukes of Hazard Blog
The search for federal budget savings was apparent as the Senate Appropriations Committee released its version of the fiscal year 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill on September 7. While the Committee recommended $7.19 billion for nuclear weapons programs, approximately $250 million more than the fiscal year 2011 enacted level and over $800 million more than the fiscal year 2010 enacted level, it made major strides in addressing some excessive and wasteful nuclear weapons programs.
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By John Fleck and Michael Coleman From the Albuquerque Journal
The U.S. nuclear weapons program appears headed for another budget increase in the coming year, but it will likely be less than the Obama administration had hoped.
A key Senate committee Wednesday signaled what appears to be a bipartisan congressional consensus to put the brakes on the administration’s plans for big increases in coming years.
Members of the Democratic-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee joined their House Republican colleagues in voting to trim the administration’s requested spending hike for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons work, which provides much of the support for spending at two major national labs in New Mexico.
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The following Jul. 30, 2011 article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram highlights the work of ANA member group Peace Farm and quotes former ANA board member Mavis Belisle.
AMARILLO -- Deep in the Texas Panhandle, farmland sprawls as far as the eye can see, dotted by the occasional wind farm and herd of cattle. It feels like the heart of the middle of nowhere. Tucked away in the vastness is one of the nation's most heavily secured facilities, an 18,000-acre complex that houses thousands of the most dangerous weapons ever made.
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July 14, 2011
By Benjamin Loehrke
From the Huffington Post
As Congress debates the FY 2012 Defense Authorization Bill, the talk around Washington has been about what will get cut and by how much. However, as the rest of Washington is bracing for cuts, the funding spigot for nuclear weapons and delivery systems is about to get thrown wide open. What does this say about our security priorities?
As Joe Cirincione pointed out at The Atlantic, over the next ten years, the nuclear budget is expected to skyrocket, with $213 billion planned for overhauling the nuclear weapons stockpile and production complex while putting a down payment on new submarines, bombers, and missiles. In addition to this budget hike, the U.S. will spend roughly $20 billion a year just to operate the current nuclear force and $10 billion a year on missile defense programs that have yet to prove their worth.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
By John Fleck And Michael Coleman From the Albuquerque Journal
The Obama administration Monday called for spending increases for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, including a nearly $700 million budget hike in New Mexico.
But there are signs House Republican budget-cutters will push back.
Amid national furor over cutting the federal budget, the Department of Energy asked for a two-year, 20 percent spending increase at Los Alamos and Sandia national labs by 2012.
Department of Energy spending provides the largest single chunk of federal cash flowing into New Mexico — $4.1 billion in 2010, much of it for nuclear weapons work at the labs.
National Nuclear Security Administration chief Tom D'Agostino, in a briefing for reporters, called the budget request "an unprecedented investment in our nuclear security enterprise."
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2011
Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, c. 505.920.7118, jay@nukewatch.org <mailto:jay@nukewatch.org>
Santa Fe, NM -
In his April 2009 Prague speech President Barack Obama called for a
nuclear weapons-free world, for which in part he was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. Today he has released his Administration’s FY 2012
Congressional Budget Request that follows up on the deal made to placate
a Republican minority in the Senate for ratification of the New
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. In exchange, Obama
pledged to increase funding for new U.S. nuclear weapons production
facilities and massive improvements to the nuclear arsenal. These
increases total $85 billion over the next decade to “modernize” the
nuclear weapons research and production complex, and $100 billion for
new heavy bombers, ballistic missiles and strategic submarines.
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For immediate release, February 9, 2011
For further information:
Susan Gordon (505) 577-8438
The Obama Administration’s FY 2012 budget request is slated
to be released on Monday, February 14, 2011. Despite pledging to reduce
the U.S. nuclear stockpile in the recently ratified New START treaty,
the Department of Energy (DOE) will likely ask Congress for
significantly more funds for nuclear weapons activities, including
expanding U.S. warhead production capacity, while nonproliferation
programs are allowed to stagnate. The DOE request will not reflect
recent scientific conclusions that existing nuclear weapons can be
reliably maintained for decades under current programs or the
President’s stated goal of global nuclear weapons reductions.
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* By: Cynthia Newsome
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A protest Wednesday
at the groundbreaking ceremony for a non-nuclear parts manufacturing
facility in south Kansas City, ended with seven people arrested.
The seven protestors were arrested and booked on a complaint of disorderly conduct.
Kansas
City Police officials say the protestors were in the street trying to
prevent guests from getting to the groundbreaking ceremony.
An
estimated 40 members of Kansas City Peace Planters, and their
supporters, gathered near the construction site at 150 Highway and Botts
Road.
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