Why now, why Los Alamos?
Progress toward nuclear disarmament has ground to a halt. It has fallen victim to short presidential attention spans, conservative legislative bodies, and a nuclear weapons complex that has incredible influence and power. Almost 10 years after the end of the Cold War, we are facing the prospect that the Clinton years will be remembered more as a tragically missed opportunity than as the time when U.S. laid the groundwork for a nuclear-weapons-free world. One does not have to look far to find evidence that we are actually losing ground on nuclear disarmament and slipping backwards into a provocative Cold War nuclear policy: Congressional mandate requires the United States to maintain a Cold War-sized arsenal of almost 8,000 deployed nuclear weapons of 10 different types. Los Alamos National Laboratory is responsible for the design and maintenance of over half of those weapon types. The United States plans to resume the production of plutonium warheads for the first time since 1989. Los
Related Questions
- Is OUR high security nuclear weapons research facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Nuclear Accident Waiting To Happen?
- Why is it that the comment lines in the Los Alamos database accession entries are not always smooth reading?
- Is it possible to get the group at the Los Alamos database to modify programs or write additional code?
