Remember your Humanity

U.S. plutonium pit production: Key updates

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

By Greg Mello Published in the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM blog) Fundamental technical and political issues remain unresolved in plans to produce new… Read More »U.S. plutonium pit production: Key updates

CBO today, on the potential costs of expanding US nuclear forces in a post-New-START environment

August 25, 2020August 27, 2020

Re CBO: The Potential Costs of Expanding U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces If the New START Treaty Expires As pdf: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-08/56475-START.pdf) It is always important when… Read More »CBO today, on the potential costs of expanding US nuclear forces in a post-New-START environment

Need for Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) at LANL

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

LANL, the region, and the state — the latter two represented by your department [NMED] — need a new LANL SWEIS [Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement], not just a supplemented SWEIS …

Santa Fe shouldn’t become a nuclear sacrifice zone

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Why would the [Santa Fe] city officials not support asking for a Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement [SWEIS] … that can help protect not only Santa Fe, but also the entire northern New Mexico region in this crucial matter?

Trash Talkin’ and Dirty Dancin’ in El Norte

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

Guest Commentary by: Bill Whaley1 March, 2020 Las Cucarachas y El Raton So, you thought you’d retire to El Norte and enjoy your espresso with… Read More »Trash Talkin’ and Dirty Dancin’ in El Norte

LANL-wide EIS needed; Santa Fe doubles down on Midtown secrecy & possible weapons

February 25, 2020February 25, 2020

1. A new Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is badly needed. There are four people who could make it… Read More »LANL-wide EIS needed; Santa Fe doubles down on Midtown secrecy & possible weapons

Plutonium pit budget request: another massive increase expected

February 4, 2020February 6, 2020

February 4, 2020 (Posted on the International Panel on Fissile Materials blog.) by Greg Mello The Trump administration is expected to submit its fiscal year… Read More »Plutonium pit budget request: another massive increase expected

U.S. plutonium pit production plans advance, with new requirements

February 1, 2020February 4, 2020

Published on the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) blog December 23, 2019 by Greg Mello The fiscal year (FY) 2020 National Defense Authorization Act… Read More »U.S. plutonium pit production plans advance, with new requirements

Fissile material mysteries in the U.S. Department of Energy FY20 budget request

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

(This post was previously published at the International Panel on Fissile Materials here.) On March 25, DOE released the final installment of its fiscal year… Read More »Fissile material mysteries in the U.S. Department of Energy FY20 budget request

Plan for reducing utility carbon output heads to Senate floor

March 5, 2019March 5, 2019

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legislature/plan-for-reducing-utility-carbon-ouput-heads-to-senate-floor/article_10c214ec-1b56-516e-b827-c3353017cbd0.html This quick comment was added by Greg Mello, lightly edited here: Will this bill mitigate global warming? No, it will not. It aims to… Read More »Plan for reducing utility carbon output heads to Senate floor

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.