The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration claims that a little more than half of WIPP’s future capacity will be reserved for future plutonium pit bomb core production. Further, those new...
“…If we have nuclear weapons, and if we, heaven forbid, got to the point where we use them on each other, it would be catastrophic. And so I want this...
Did you see what the Santa Fe Archbishop wrote in the very heart of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex? “With this pending Nuclear Posture Review, President Biden has the opportunity...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 10, 2022 | Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, [email protected] Santa Fe, NM – Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released cursory three-page summaries of its FY...
“[Nuclear Diarmament] is a human life issue. This is the sanctity of life because nuclear arms, in fact, could wipe out life as we know it. It can wipe out...
Officials plan to ramp up operations as pandemic hoped to subside “With continued increases in shipments, WIPP officials said they hoped to fill the seventh disposal panel by the middle...
A powerful op-ed by Sister Joan Chittister: Quote: “The difference is that [Santa Fe Archbishop] Wester is alone and standing in what came to be the center of the “American...
As the Biden administration reviews U.S. nuclear weapons policy, over 60 advocacy groups, including Veterans for Peace and CodePink, recently issued a joint statement calling for the elimination of hundreds...
Even though the first atomic bomb exploded in their state, New Mexicans were never compensated for the health consequences of nuclear contamination. These campaigners have vowed to change that. By Sofia...
“The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons” By Ann Suellentrop, Peace Works Kansas City | January 22, 2022 People around the world want to save the Earth from nuclear...
Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace – A conversation toward nuclear disarmament Archbishop John C. Wester’s live press conference to discuss his pastoral letter on the growing need...
“We need nuclear arms control, not an escalating nuclear arms race.” Santa Fe New Mexican: MY VIEW JOHN C. WESTER | By John C. Wester santafenewmexican.com | January 15, 2022 In...
U.S. nuclear weapons issues: In anticipation of the NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference that was to start January 4 the P-5 (original nuclear weapons powers U.S., Russia, China, France and U.K.)...
Archbishop of Santa Fe in New Mexico: [Nuclear] Armament a “diabolical spiral” Source (Translated from German): kathpress.at | January 13, 2022 WASHINGTON, 01/13/2022 (KAP) The Catholic Archbishop of Santa Fe, New...
The head of one of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. says now is the time to rejuvenate a global conversation about the need for nuclear disarmament and...
On 11 January 2022, Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico circulated a letter in support of nuclear weapons abolition and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...
Watchdog groups said it wasn’t until the state sued in February 2021 that the DOE proposed boosting the cleanup budget at the lab by about one-third. Before that, budgets were...
Watchdog groups said it wasn’t until the state sued in February 2021 that the DOE proposed boosting the cleanup budget at the lab by about one-third. Before that budgets were...
During the question and answer period, Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive director Jay Coghlan said he was fascinated to hear that there was some funding allocated for a new SWEIS....
[Letter from Washington] “In the face of escalating alarm about climate change, the siren song of “clean and affordable and reliable” power finds an audience eager to overlook a business...
“The Environment Department “should be equally considerate towards the judicial review process as it was in the administrative permit modification process, to ensure the courts have sufficient time to review...
An anti-nuclear group said this type of plutonium isn’t explosive but would be hazardous to breathe. It’s possible the lab made this type of plutonium a lesser priority while ramping...
The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count. “DoE is now running up against a statutory limit for how much...
Less than a week before the Christmas holiday, over 125 people came together at the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the afternoon of Sunday, December 19th to listen...
At least 125 people were present for the service, many bearing roses in honor of the Lady of Guadalupe. Among them was Karen Weber, who said it’s “highly symbolic” for...