[NukeNet] Comments Needed Immediately To Fight USA N-Weapons Infrastructure/Expansion

[Bill Smirnow]

   Dear All,
                   Please send in your comments
immediately and please forward this e-mail to all
interested parties and lists. Please calll your
local media or national media [ see link of
http://www.fair.org under media activism] and ask
them to cover this story as well as the issue of
the USA not living up to it's NPT obligations as
we are legally mandated to:
http://www.cornnet.nl/~akmalten/docs.html


All comments received at meetings or via mail
through Jan. 17 will be incorporated into a draft
supplemental environmental impact statement on
Complex 2030.



Federal agencies are required under the law to
create an impact statement when undertaking
actions that might significantly affect the
environment.  Comments regarding environmental
concerns are taken into account by DOE planners,
officials said.

The meetings have no bearing on the role of
nuclear weapons in U.S. defense strategy; that is
set by the president and was last outlined in the
2002 Nuclear Posture Review, so comments should
include impact on the environment.

For more information, go to

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2158&issue_id=51



or
http://capwiz.com/wagingpeace/issues/alert/?alertid=9243081&queueid=1015472771



      Time is Running out to Comment on the
Bombplex!

      Take Action!





      Wednesday, January 17, is the deadline for
sending comments on the Bombplex to the Department
of Energy! Voice your opposition now!

      Over the past 3 months, the Department of
Energy (DOE)  has held hearings across the United
States allowing the public to weigh in on DOE's
Notice of Intent for Complex 2030 (The Bombplex).
The Bombplex is intended to create a nuclear
weapons infrastructure capable of developing and
maintaining a new generation of nuclear weapons
under the Reliable Replacement Warhead program.
At every hearing Americans have overwhelmingly
opposed this expensive, dangerous and unnecessary
overhaul of the current nuclear complex.  Through
Turn the Tide, over 2,700 letters voicing
opposition to the Bomplex have been sent to DOE.

      Time is running out! Now more than ever, we
need to let DOE know that we oppose the BOMBPLEX !
On Wednesday, January 17, the public comment
period for Bombplex proposal will end. There are
five days left to send comments about the current
proposal before the DOE begins their Programmatic
Environmental Impact Study. Comments can be sent
directly to DOE through this email or sent to DOE
at Complex2030 at nnsa.doe.gov.

      If this is the first time you have heard
about the Bombplex, now is the time to voice your
opposition! Send this email to friends and family!
The DOE is legally required to listen to all
comments submitted. For information about the
Bombplex see below:

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      New nukes in the US mean new nukes in other
countries!
      Designing and building new nuclear weapons
will encourage other countries to follow the same
path, ultimately leading to a new nuclear arms
race. At a time when the United States is trying
to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear
weapons program, Iran to halt uranium enrichment
and the rest of the world to abstain from
developing nuclear weapons, we should not be
taking actions that encourage other countries to
develop or expand their nuclear weapons
capabilities. We should be dismantling our
existing weapons, not developing new ones.

      The Bombplex and RRW violate international
law!
      Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, of which the United States is both a
signatory and one of the chief architects, says
that the United States is obligated to engage in
effective multilateral efforts leading to nuclear
disarmament. By defying international law and
building a new generation of nuclear weapons, the
United States would be hindering international
non-proliferation initiatives and crippling
international nuclear disarmament efforts.

      The NNSA is wasting money by replacing
nuclear weapons that ARE proven reliable and that
will last for decades!
      The NNSA has said that the Reliable
Replacement Warhead is necessary to replace aging
nuclear weapons in the US arsenal. The NNSA
already spends billions of dollars every year
making sure our nuclear arsenal is reliable and
will last for decades. The Government Accounting
Office has estimated that simply building the
Bombplex will cost an additional $150 billion.
According to a currently unreleased study
conducted by the nuclear labs themselves, the
nuclear weapons we have now could last as long as
100 years! The reality is that we don't need to
waste money on nuclear weapons that will continue
to be functional long into the future.