previous year - 2008 Archive

Papers, articles, publications, interviews, and live broadcasts: (updated 04/16/10)

• Fundraising and outreach, let's stop new nuclear weapons factories and cut back weapons spending, Bulletin #92, Nov 17, 2008
• Kansas City update; fall fundraising drive begins, Bulletin #91, Nov 7, 2008
• Interim summary of views: Kansas City Plant, (pdf) Oct 13, 2008
• Letter to University of California demilitarization activists re nuclear complex transformation, Oct 12, 2008
• NNSA Weapons Activities spending 1980-2008 (handy chart, updated!), Sep 15, 2008
• Brief comments on RRW pit reuse report, Sep 5, 2008
• Memo to Congress about the FY2009 continuing resolution, (pdf) Aug 29, 2008
• NRDC and others seek to move nuclear weapons factories to NM: more details, Action Alert #90, Aug 25, 2008
• NRDC, a New Mexico nonprofit, and others seek to move nuclear factory to NM, Action Alert #89, Aug 17, 2008
• For reference: House Appropriations Committee and the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee Markup for FY2009, Jun 2008
• House Committee considers halting LANL pit production tomorrow --what will Udall do? Also: International status of nuclear weapons: UNM talk tomorrow, Jun 24, 2008
• Letter to key congressional and executive branch individuals re: CMRR, Jun 11, 2008
• Letter from Mayor Martin Chavez in answer to Peter Neils, Jun 10, 2008 (pdf)
• Short precis on pit production operating and capital project issues, Jun 10, 2008
• June public lectures, discussions; internships; more, Action Alert #86, Jun 9, 2008
• How shall we nurture humanity and the living Earth, abstract of talk scheduled for Jun 8, 2008 at the Santa Fe Unitarian Chuch, 107 West Barcelona St
• Letter from LASG board president, Peter Neils, to Mayor Martin Chavez, Jun 7, 2008 (pdf)
• Letter to Congress re nuclear appropriations, Part II, May 14, 2008
• Letter to Congress re nuclear appropriations, Part I, May 13, 2008
• Focus on food security, not military dominance, Apr 27, 2008
• One Minute to Midnight, Apr 22, 2008
• LANL Nuclear Disposal Public Relations Event "Pre-Mortem" (?), Action Alert #85, Apr 16, 2008
• Letter to Congressman Udall staff re CMRR, pit production, and Desert Rock, Mar 28, 2008
• The U.S. nuclear weapons complex: Pushing for a new production capability, Mar 20, 2008
• Complex Transformation 'hearings," schedule, Action Alert #84b, Mar 10, 2008
• Upcoming NNSA Complex Transformation “hearings:” diversion, spectacle, or opportunity, Action Alert #84, Mar 7, 2008
• Build Warhead Factories Now, Worry about Weapons Policy Later -- Will Congress Take Back the Reins?, Feb 12, 2008
• Bush nuclear weapons budget seeks end-run, Action Alert #83, Feb 5, 2008
• Congressional actions, late 2007; meetings this week; disarmament walk report, more, Action Alert #82, Jan 7, 2008

Press releases:

• Administration Signals Nuclear Weapons Complex Preferences; Plan Calls for Billions in Weapons Plant Construction, Oct 9, 2008
• House, Senate Largely Endorse Bush Nuke Plans in Defense Authorization Bill, Sep 24, 2008
• Senate energy and water panel faces today's national security and economic emergencies largely on autopilot, Jul 8, 2008
• House Committee Weighs Future of LANL Plutonium Expansion; Udall, Lujan Silent, Jun 20, 2008
• House Appropriations Subcommittee to Mark Up Energy and Water Bill, Jun 17, 2008
• GAO: NNSA has changing, contradictory plutonium warhead core ("pit") production goals and has "low-balled" pit production costs, Jun 2, 2008
• Ed Grothus: Celebrating Four Decades of Peace Activism in Los Alamos, May 7, 2008
• Last Bush nuclear weapons budget seeks end-run on weapons programs, ignores congressional direction, Feb 4, 2008