Aug 10, 2021

Update: door hanger campaign now beginning FRIDAY of this week! (more info included)

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Dear friends --

Yesterday's request for help with door hangers came rather late and omitted a thing or two!

First, our initial efforts will be focused in Santa Fe. We got several inquiries about Albuquerque but we are going to stick to northern New Mexico for this campaign, starting with Santa Fe.

Second, we didn't show you the door hanger. You might quite reasonably wonder what it says! Here it is.

Third, we've pushed back our first canvass date two days to Friday, Aug. 13, either 8:30 - 11 am or 5:30 - 8:00 pm. Saturday Aug. 14, morning and evening, are still on the calendar, at the same times.

If you want to participate write Trish as soon as you can so we can plan.

We do think this can be fun. Exercise, meet friends, etc! Bring friends!

To spice up this note let me add a couple more tidbits from the recent "Deterrence Summit." 

• LANL has just built two new parking garages. (See them here [one brand-new, one some years old shown, in TA-03] and here at TA-50). LANL has a need for an additional six parking garages, but the regional road network would never handle the traffic, LANL knows. Hence the plan for buses mentioned yesterday.
  

• When I pointed out how expensive NNSA's pit production program was (startup costs exceeding $30 billion in the best case), and asked NNSA's guy in charge of it (Michael Thompson) whether or how long he thought Congress would continue funding it, he said: "It's not a question of money." Good to know. So what is it a question of? "Payload."
  

• LANL Director Thom Mason: "We are at the end of the world's longest cul-de-sac."
  

• “Pits. Mmmmm. Lose a little sleep on pits.” Robert Webster, deputy director, weapons, LANL (h/t Dan Leone, Exchange Monitor).

• "The U.S. disarms by budget, not by decision." Steve Guidice, former operations manager of the nuclear weapons complex, to me.

• If you have 50 qualified applicants, instead of hiring 20, hire all 50 and "sort them out down the road." Bob Webster again.
  

• "We can't treat nuclear as a separate box when it comes to conflict...Nuclear deterrence underpins every military operations plan." General Cotton, Deputy Commander, U.S. Global Strike Command, and Deputy Commander, USSTRATCOM.
  

More soon, thank you.

Greg Mello, Trish Williams-Mello, Sarah Johnson, Lydia Clark, and the rest of the Study Group gang