Greg Mello is a co-founder of the Los Alamos Study Group and has led its varied activities since 1989, which have included policy research, environmental analysis, congressional education and lobbying, community organizing, litigation, advertising, and the nuts and bolts of running a small nonprofit. From time to time Greg has served as a consulting analyst and writer for other nuclear policy organizations. Greg was originally educated as an engineer (Harvey Mudd College, 1971) and regional planner (Harvard, 1975). Greg led the first environmental enforcement at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a hydrogeologist for the New Mexico Environment Department and later a consultant to industry. In 2002 Greg was a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security. Greg's research, analysis, and opinions have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Issues in Science and Technology, in the New Mexico press, and elsewhere.
(The following is a republication of LASG Bulletin 320 from December 29, 2022) No matter how much they escalate this war, the U.S. and its… Read More »Neocon humiliation — or nuclear exchange / The centrality of war resistance in moral politics
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LANL’s prototype plutonium bomb core passes key tests By Scott Wyland, Feb 19, 2024 Thanks for the good article, Scott. I would add that on… Read More »Comment on article in the Santa Fe New Mexican
Meanwhile costs rise, schedules lengthen; waste, safety, transportation issues unresolved, among others Albuquerque — The Unitarian Congregation of Taos is the 102nd organization or business to endorse the… Read More »Opposition to Los Alamos nuclear factory grows, building on enduring moral foundations
*”The real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets.” Now it is happening again on a vast scale. WHY? A conversation with… Read More »‘The real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets ‘ Now it’s happening again …
• LASG Letter to Congress, part 1, May 18, 2023 • LASG Letter to Congress, part 2, Jun 9, 2023
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“Either Russia prevails on its terms, or there is a nuclear exchange.” — prediction by a “distinguished observer of global affairs,” quoted by Patrick Lawrence (The following… Read More »Neocon humiliation — or nuclear exchange / The centrality of war resistance in moral politics
The drums of war are getting louder by the day here in the West, and we should be criticizing them. Joining the shrill voices demonizing Russia has a cowardly ring to it.