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Papers, articles, publications, interviews, and live broadcasts (updated 16 Jan 2026)

YouTube video of the event

Darkling plain: whither the legal fight in South Carolina over plutonium "pit" environmental analysis? What does it mean? What will happen?

LASG Memorandum to Judge Lewis and the Parties in the South Carolina Plutonium Pit case

Joint Reply on Alternative Remedies,

Memorandum Opinion and Order,

Bulletin 351: TOMORROW: Community briefing, volunteer training: U.S.-Russian relations & the Ukraine War, the criminality of nuclear weapons

End the Ukaine war, stop LANL’s plutonium bomb factory (again!)

Santa Fe Reporter,

Stop the Los Alamos Bomb Factory

Santa Fe Reporter,

Bulletin 350: Ad with "Call for Sanity" endorsers published; upcoming New Mexico events; fresh warhead core ("pit") cost analyses

Plutonium Modernization Spending, Actual, Proposed, and Estimated by Site and Fiscal Year

Interview with authors Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, and Steven Starr, Nuclear High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse

Currently-estimated pit production costs at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Savannah River Site

Elephants and the Unicorn: Canceling Peace at the Nuclear Strategy Forum

LASG Bulletin 349:

Will the 2024 presidential elections alter the course of the new nuclear arms race?, Part II

Will the 2024 presidential elections alter the course of the new nuclear arms race?

LASG Bulletin 348

Advocates Pass on Plutonium, New Mexicans speak out against proposed LANL pit production at town hall

Santa Fe Reporter,

Sentinel, pit production, and a bit more; Why the US is losing the new arms race it started

(video here)

Bulletin 347: Plutonium pit/Sentinel warhead overview and discussion by Zoom 7/15/24, 1 pm MDT // NNSA/DOE Santa Fe Town Hall July 22, please come

NNSA Jill Hruby, and DOE-EM Candice Robertson Town Hall Meeting, images and videos

Stop the Ukraine War While We Can

What we’re up to, and reflections on some opportunities and dangers at hand

$22 billion on LANL pits is a lot to keep up with the Joneses

Albuquerque Journal,

Can U.S. seize the moment for peace?,

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Bulletin 346: Momentous events, and two op-eds

Press backgrounder: U.S. Considers Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal,

Bulletin 345: Ukraine strikes Russian early-warning radar against nuclear attack

Bulletin 344: Pit production, the largest nuclear warhead infrastructure project in 7 decades / interesting news

Overview of Pit Production Challenges at Los Alamos National Laboratory

(video here

Bulletin 343: "Russophobia" panel discussion video; upcoming presentation in SC, "Overview of Pit Production Challenges at LANL"

"Russophobia, the Ukraine war, and nuclear weapons,"

Bulletin 342: Russophobia, the Ukraine war, and nuclear weapons," panel discussion in Santa Fe Tuesday April 16, 6 pm / Pit production: myths and contradictions

Nuclear weapons activities in New Mexico

Bulletin 341: Pit seminar materials available; Russophobia seminar postponed; big jump in FY24 warhead spending as arms race takes hold; Ukraine losing war sparking panic in West

Update and discussion on pit production Issues including widely held misconceptions: slides,

video

Belly of the Beast: LASG's Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit

Nuclear Hotseat,

Bulletin 340: "Year in Pits;" Zoom update & discussion on pits 2/27; rich opportunities in the land of nuclear (dis)enchantment; end the Ukraine carnage and genocide in Gaza

The Year in Pits, LASG letter to Congressional Colleagues

Nuclear weapons activities in New Mexico

Bulletin 339: Meetings this month, starting tomorrow (in person) and this Thursday (Zoom); join NM list if interested; please endorse the "Call for Sanity"

Press Releases

• Video available: Nov. 13 discussion of U.S. nuclear warhead core ("pit") production with NNSA Administrator Hruby, others, Nov 18, 2024
— YouTube video of the event
• Reminder, and please RSVP to get the access code, if you plan to go to the panel discussion on plutonium pit production at the National Press Club Wed. Nov. 13, 1-4 pm EST, with NNSA Administrator Hruby and others, Nov 6, 2024
• Panel discussion at National Press Club, Washington DC, regarding plutonium warhead core ("pit") production, Nov 1, 2024
• Study Group files "friend of the court" motion in South Carolina plutonium "pit" lawsuit One pit factory instead of two would fully resolve this lawsuit while preserving strong environmental law, Oct 30, 2024
• Darkling plain: whither the legal fight in South Carolina over plutonium "pit" environmental analysis? What does it mean? What will happen?, Oct 22, 2024
• Briefing and community discussion on plutonium warhead core ("pit") production, Los Alamos, Thursday, Oct. 24, 6-8 pm, Oct 22, 2024
• Art reception for new mural supporting resistance to nuclear production Saturday August 3, 2-4 pm, CloudCliff Building in Santa Fe, Aug 1, 2024
• NNSA/DOE Town Hall at Buffalo Thunder resort, Monday July 22, 6 pm MDT; The huge LANL program to build plutonium warhead cores ("pits") to be discussed, Jul 18, 2024
— NNSA Jill Hruby, and DOE-EM Candice Robertson Town Hall Meeting, images and videos, U.S. Considers Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal, Jun 10, 2024
• "Pit" project is NNSA's largest in 7 decades; huge & rising cost raises questions of scale,value, and sustainability -- and of what Congress knows, May 10, 2024
• Los Alamos to make plutonium cores ("pits") for new ICBM, Savannah River to make pits for new submarine missile warhead, Apr 17, 2024
• Huge increase in nuclear warhead funding approved for this year; more requested for next year, Mar 12, 2024

News Media

Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92

The New York Times,

Small, overnight fire in LANL plutonium facility burned itself out

Santa Fe New Mexican,

For science, keep it subcritical, NNSA defense programs head says,

Exchange Monitor,

Antis tells court that federal review of Los Alamos pits no good, legal mandate no substitute

Exchange Monitor,

NNSA head defends weapons program post-election, says agency ‘not just sitting on our hands’

Exchange Monitor,

Delays, negotiations ongoing in environmental lawsuit over pit production

Santa Fe New Mexican,

New Mexico anti proposes solution for dispute in pit lawsuit: cancel Los Alamos factory

Exchange Monitor,

How to Make a ‘War Reserve’ Nuclear Bomb

The Progressive Magazine,

July 22 NNSA Townhall: The Question of Need,

La Jicarita,

An artist's nuclear reaction

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Recent lawsuit highlights city's struggle to respond to records requests in a timely manner

Santa Fe New Mexican,

New Mexicans and Fed Clash over LANL Weapons Plan

Anti-nuclear advocates decry LANL pit production plans

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Anti-nuclear group sues Santa Fe for slow records response

Santa Fe New Mexican,

US nuclear agency struggles with production and costs

Physics Today,

At S.C. meeting, some head-nodding over anti's stance that SRS should make all pits

Exchange Monitor,

Reports: 2 mishaps at LANL in one day

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Los Alamos National Lab's budget could grow to a record $5 billion in next fiscal year

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Global Warfare “Summit” Summons National Priority

Pressenza,

Belly of the Beast: LASG's Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit

Nuclear Hotseat,

LANL's prototype plutonium bomb core passes key tests

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Veterans for Peace on the dangers of the Nuclear Industrial Complex

Los Alamos National Laboratory logs two more skin-contamination incidents

Santa Fe New Mexican,

US nuclear agency isn't consistent in tracking costs for some construction projects, report says,

Associated Press,

Report: Another LANL worker's skin contaminated

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Report: Radioactive contaminants found on Los Alamos National Lab worker's skin,

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Santa Fe city councilor pulls resolution opposing plutonium pit production at LANL

Santa Fe New Mexican,

Nuclear Option

Santa Fe Reporter,

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