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Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: August 2025

August 12, 2025August 21, 2025Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons Budget: • NNSA’s detailed budget was finally released, the latest ever. $2.8 billion is for “plutonium modernization” (i.e., pit production) projects, of which $1.8 billion for LANL. The...

August 6th U.S. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Commemoration in Santa Fe

August 8, 2025August 25, 2025Archbishop, Budget, DOE, Downwinders, Environmental Impact, Hiroshima, ICAN, Japan, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, Nagasaki, New Mexico, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, TPNW

Eighty Years Later, it is Beyond Time to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons. Last week on August 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, community...

Santa Fe New Mexican MY VIEW – 80 years on: The immorality of nuclear weapons

By John C. Wester, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN | August 5, 2024 santafenewmexican.com Greetings New Mexicans. The lord’s blessings upon you. I am writing to you from Hiroshima, Japan, on the...

Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 30, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac – 505.316.4148 | Email The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the...

Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut

June 30, 2025December 1, 2025Budget, Climate Change, DOE, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NNSA, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production at LANL

The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the upcoming fiscal year, 2026, which begins on October 1, 2025. The request...

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Programs Slated for 53% Increase

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 3, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Topline budget figures for the Department of Energy (DOE) have been released under...

Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production

May 9, 2025October 13, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico, NNSA, Nuclear Weapons, Pantex Plant, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production, Savannah River Site, Washington DC

AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, published a formal Notice of Intent in the Federal Register...

Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 9, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, 843-838-1171, GullGeeCo@aol.com Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com...

Formal Comments on the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory

April 15, 2025May 11, 2025DOE, Environmental Impact, Environmental Justice, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, NEPA, New Mexico, NMED, NNSA, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, Tritium

Full NukeWatch LANL SWEIS Comments Out Now! The LANL SWEIS public comment period has ended, but you can still take action: Use our recent extensive comments as a resource &...

Share Your Experiences at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The New York Times would like to hear from you about workplace protocols and safety measures at LANL. By Alicia Inez Guzmán | Alicia Inez Guzmán is reporting on the...

NukeWatch Los Alamos Lab Site-Wide EIS Workshop – February 6, 2025

February 7, 2025March 20, 2025Archbishop, Downwinders, Environmental Impact, Environmental Justice, High-level Radioactive Waste, LANL Chromium Plume, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, NEPA, New Mexico, NMED, NNSA, Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, Savannah River Site, Tritium, WIPP

Full Video Recording: NukeWatch Los Alamos Lab Site-Wide EIS Workshop NukeWatch Presentation: Los Alamos Lab Site-Wide EIS Workshop

Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux

“Plaintiffs including Savannah River Site Watch, South Carolina Environmental Law Project Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Tri-Valley CAREs forced NNSA to halt construction on many phases...

Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production

January 17, 2025February 10, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NEPA, NNSA, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production

Nonprofit public interest groups have reached an historic settlement agreement with the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This is the successful result...

Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 17, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org...

DOE Rejects Comprehensive Cleanup at Los Alamos Lab; Designates Expanded Nuclear Weapons Production as Preferred Future

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 15, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Today, in an informal conference hosted by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), the Department of...

Independent Review of Chromium Groundwater Contamination Fails to Make Final Cleanup Recommendation

After 20 Years Los Alamos Lab Still Doesn’t Know Size of Plume At Present Rate Cleanup Will Take More Than a Century FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 2, 2025 Contact: Jay...

Independent Review of Chromium Groundwater Contamination Fails to Make Final Cleanup Recommendation

January 2, 2025May 6, 2025Chromium, Environmental Impact, LANL Chromium Plume, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico

After 20 Years Los Alamos Lab Still Doesn’t Know Size of Plume At Present Rate Cleanup Will Take More Than a Century On December 30, 2024, in the middle of...

The New Yorker: New Mexico’s Nuclear Weapons Boom

On a recent Wednesday, ten students filed into a classroom at Northern New Mexico College, in the town of Española, to learn about the dangers of nuclear radiation. The students...

Working Together, We Can Meet Enormous Challenges

December 19, 2024February 10, 2025Environmental Impact, High-level Radioactive Waste, LANL Cleanup, Modernization, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, WIPP

Dear Friends, As we look back on 2024, Nuclear Watch New Mexico hopes you had a wonderful year. We wish you peace and prosperity. Given uncertain times ahead, we are...

Santa Fe New Mexican: Is Acid Canyon clean enough? Depends who you ask

“With the help of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, [Chemist and Northern Arizona University professor emeritus] Ketterer took samples of soil, water and plants from a few locations around Acid Canyon,...

Call To Action: Stop Tritium Venting & Protect the Most Vulnerable

Searchlight NM: Plutonium just had a bad day in court

In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion...

Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law

October 3, 2024November 11, 2024DOE, Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NEPA, New Mexico, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production

On September 30, United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled that the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security...

Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 3, 2024 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org...

The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. Making more is uncertain

Coinciding with NNSA’s announcement of the first diamond-stamped pit, a US District Court ruled that the Energy Department and the NNSA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing...