Tri-Valley CAREs decries "wrong direction, wrong policy, and wrong priorities," points to escalating nuclear risks for SF Bay Area, Central Valley and NationLivermore – In a Federal Register notice to be published this Friday, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced its final plan to revitalize and rebuild the nuclear weapons complex, at Livermore Lab in California and other sites across the country.

"The government is trying to sell the American people a bill of goods by referring to this plan as a ‘consolidation’ when it is actually a provocative revitalization of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex," charged Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs and a close neighbor of Livermore Lab.

Bill Hartung's placed this letter in the October 15 New York Times
As “New and Unnecessary” suggests, this is no time to be contemplating the construction of new nuclear weapons.
Not only would making new bombs run against the grain of growing support for a world without nuclear weapons, it would also be enormously costly.
The Department of Energy's current plans entail spending up to $200 billion over the next two decades to sustain an unneeded nuclear weapons complex that would build not only new warheads, but new weapons factories as well.
These funds would be far better spent if they were invested in an area of real national need like the development of clean energy sources.
William D. Hartung, New York, Oct. 13, 2008
The writer is the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation