Los Alamos Study Group

Neocon humiliation — or nuclear exchange / The centrality of war resistance in moral politics

April 18, 2024April 18, 2024

(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

Dirtiest mission in NNSA’s portfolio has been assigned to LANL and Pajarito Plateau in NM

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024

LANL Dir. Thom Mason denounces problems and declares the virtues of LANL during virtual Town Hall meeting The following are published comments by Greg Mello… Read More »Dirtiest mission in NNSA’s portfolio has been assigned to LANL and Pajarito Plateau in NM

Opposition to Los Alamos nuclear factory grows, building on enduring moral foundations

October 20, 2023October 20, 2023

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’s happening again …

August 1, 2023August 1, 2023

*”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 …

Toward a viable plutonium pit production plan

June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

• LASG Letter to Congress, part 1, May 18, 2023 • LASG Letter to Congress, part 2, Jun 9, 2023

Schedule for Nuclear Warhead Core (“Pit”) Production Slipping, Costs Increasing: NNSA’s Strategy is Failing

April 1, 2023April 1, 2023

Albuquerque, NM — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) fiscal year 2024 (FY24) funding request portrays NNSA’s effort to prepare for production of plutonium cores (“pits”) for nuclear… Read More »Schedule for Nuclear Warhead Core (“Pit”) Production Slipping, Costs Increasing: NNSA’s Strategy is Failing

$10 Trillion for Nuclear War: Racing to the Nuclear Cliff

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker The United States is adding even more money and capacity into its cache of nuclear weapons, the detonation of… Read More »$10 Trillion for Nuclear War: Racing to the Nuclear Cliff

Neocon humiliation — or nuclear exchange / The centrality of war resistance in moral politics

December 31, 2022June 13, 2023

“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

Chorus Condemning Russia Sings Song of Hypocrisy, Risks Wider War

December 31, 2022June 13, 2023

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.

A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

This article was originally released by the Los Alamos Study Group as Bulletin #292 on March 1, 2022 and was edited and published by Consortium… Read More »A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War

About this blog

Trish and I began this blog as a kind of experiment, to see if we could efficiently share information and commentary with a wider group of people. We do so with trepidation because sharing information and opinions is hardly important unless it draws us closer to you and inspires you to take actions and find words you could not, or did not, take or find before. We hope you in turn will inspire and amaze us. Our electronic media separate as well as connect us. We can hardly communicate without them, but they also seductively draw people away from the world we must build and the person-to-person interactions we most need to do that. We prefer the first and second grammatical persons to the third. There's always a tension between quantity, promptness, and quality, and it is difficult to know how to strike the right balance or if that is possible. So we will make all sorts of mistakes. We want to be as clear as possible, which at times will mean being firm, but we hope not to lose our humility thereby. For a time this blog was called "Enraging Desert," not so much for the fine image of the lion roaring at the enraging desert in Wallace Stevens' poem but for the political and psychological use which James Hillman made of it. (http://lasg.org/wordpress/2013/03/20/re-enraging-desert/) "Forget the rest" refers of course to the Einstein-Russell Manifesto of 1955 (http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm) against nuclear armaments and war. The admonition to "[r]emember your humanity" is more commonly recalled, but too many people who promote weapons of mass destruction think they are doing that already. "Forget the rest" points to a much larger cultural challenge, one that is inescapable at this historical moment when two centuries of economic growth are ending. It is also a challenge each of us faces in the course of our lives when we are forced to choose, as we must. "All that's inane / Be swept away as vain." (Goethe, Faust)

We Call for Sanity, Not Nuclear Production

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Nearly all our elected officials either support expanded nuclear weapons or are passive. They won’t change until politically forced to do so.