Birthplace of Atomic Bomb, New Mexico Remains Center of Massive U.S. Nuclear Arsenal

[bananas]

Published on Oct 11, 2012 by democracynow

DemocracyNow.org - In this special broadcast from just outside Los Alamos National Laboratory, we look at the radioactive legacy of New Mexico. The atomic bombs used in World War II were designed and developed here, and the state still plays a key role in maintaining the nation's massive nuclear arsenal. We're joined by two guests: Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico; and Chuck Montaño, a former investigator and auditor at Los Alamos who turned whistleblower after calling attention to wasteful spending and fraud at the nation's foremost nuclear weapons lab.


Guests:

Jay Coghlan, executive director at Nuclear Watch New Mexico.

Chuck Montaño, former investigator and auditor at Los Alamos National Laboratory who faced retaliation after he blew the whistle on wasteful spending and fraud at the lab. He is now a board member with Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety.


Transcript at http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/11/birthplace_of_atomic_bomb_new_mexico

[kooljerk666]

1. Our Nuke Arsenal should be scrapped.

A few years back NOAA & Rutgers Univ. did a study on nuke war between Pakistan & India.

The results, destruction of the Ozone Layer & Nuclear Winter for 10 years.
I would rather die in a terrorist attack or be shot to death, than try to survive while almost all life on earth is dying.

We may want a few of these as some sort of deterrent, but rebuilding our arsenal is a waste of money.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=617
http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2012/07/india-pakistani-nuclear-war-related.html
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockAmbioNW.pdf

This stuff is so scary (just looking at it for 5 minutes turned my stomach) that if it occurred I would be look for a Pharmacy to find the material needed to blissfully end my life. It would be much more pleasant than trying to survive.

Since the NOAA/Rutgers study came out, there are plenty more based on its info & rice yields are decimated, Phytoplankton gone, mass extinction of the oceans food chain, and on and on and on................

I have know about this study for years but just looking for info for what I hope is a coherent post has made me a nervous wreck and it is only 7:21AM

Dr sez it is to much caffeine.

[bananas]

2. Yes, we have to abolish nuclear weapons

Martin Hellman, famous for his work on cryptography, estimates the failure rate of nuclear deterrence at roughly 1% per year, or roughly once every hundred years, based on fault-tree analysis and probablistic risk analysis.
http://nuclearrisk.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman

Valerie Plame, the CIA agent exposed by the Bush administration, became an outspoken supporter of Global Zero.
http://www.globalzero.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

Some other nuclear abolition groups:
http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/
http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com/
http://www.tridentploughshares.org/
http://www.cnduk.org/

[L0oniX]

3. The only nukes in Los Alamos are Little Boy and Big Boy ...I have lived there...

and been all over the area and I say there are no visible signs of any nukes or bombs anywhere. I have Indian friends there and we've been everywhere. Little and Big Boy bombs are on display at the LASL public visitor center.