The Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network will release “Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex for Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World,” Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 9:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. EST. Location: Root Room of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Teleconference dial-in Number: (641) 715-3635, Access Code: 539953#

Contributors to the report include Tri-Valley CAREs, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Greater Kansas City Chapter, Just Peace, and the Project on Government Oversight. The report is the result of a collaborative project supported by the Connect U.S. Fund.

 Lead report author Dr. Robert Civiak, a physicist and former White House OMB budget examiner, will summarize major recommendations and findings.

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.

Federal agencies charged with evading cleanup of existing site while pursuing illegal "third-party" financing for new bomb plant

Citizens Groups Allege "Sinkhole in a Soybean Field" for Taxpayers

WASHINGTON, DC — In response to a joint refusal by the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to consider the significant environmental impacts of moving a critical nuclear weapon production facility to a new location, yesterday a coalition of environmental and peace organizations asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. to set aside the new plant project and direct the agencies to prepare a new environmental analysis of site-cleanup and relocation alternatives for the existing Kansas City Plant (KCP).

• What: Event titled, "Looking Back – Remembering the Victims of Nuclear Weapons: Looking Forward – Toward a Nuclear Free Future"
• Date/Time: August 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM; moment of silence to commemorate Nagasaki bomb dropping at 11:02 AM; Keynote Speaker and Music at 11:05 AM
• Where: Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, corner of Vasco Road & Patterson Pass Road.

Livermore, CA – Saturday August 9th, on the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, peace, environmental, and social justice activists will gather at the Livermore Lab to commemorate the victims of nuclear weapons and war, and to advocate a future free of nuclear weapons.