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Cooperation of US and Russian scientists helped avoid nuclear catastrophe at Cold War’s end

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker recounts the epic story of how American and Russian scientists joined forces to avert some of the greatest post-Cold War nuclear dangers....

Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC Performance Evaluation Report – Wrong B61-12 tail case?

May 17, 2016August 28, 2018Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Weapons

Buried in the just released NNSA FY 2015 Performance Evaluation Report (PER) for Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC (the combined contract for Pantex and Y-12 run by Lockheed Martin and Bechtel)...

NukeWatch NM Heads to DC To Stop U.S. Nuclear Weapons “Trillion Dollar Trainwreck”

April 13, 2016October 22, 2025Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

NukeWatch NM Heads to Washington to Press Congress, Obama Officials To Stop U.S. Nuclear Weapons “Trillion Dollar Trainwreck” — LANL Whistleblower Chuck Montaño to Be Honored Three members of...

Watchdogs Demand Expedited Release of Lab Evaluations to E-FOIA Reading Room

April 8, 2016May 6, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Weapons

Watchdogs File Second FOIA Request for Los Alamos and Sandia Labs Evaluations, Demand Expedited Release to E-FOIA Reading Room Santa Fe, NM – Nuclear Watch New Mexico has filed...

LANL In No Hurry With Emergency Response Plans

January 11, 2016October 21, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety

LANL In No Hurry With Emergency Response Plans In the recent letter, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board told DOE that they were concerned with the pace and completeness of...

Federal Nuclear Safety Oversight at LANL Remains Drastically Understaffed

January 7, 2016May 6, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Federal Nuclear Safety Oversight at LANL Remains Drastically Understaffed A recently released report, Office of Enterprise Assessments Targeted Review of Work Planning and Control and Biological Safety at the Los Alamos...

Despite Uncertainty of When/If WIPP Will Reopen, DOE Hatches Plan to Send More Waste

December 23, 2015December 11, 2023Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, WIPP

Despite Uncertainty of When/If WIPP Will Reopen, DOE Hatches Plan to Send More Waste In a recent Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board Editorial: Another WIPP delay spells more tax dollars wasted, we are...

Four Strikes and You’re Out

December 21, 2015October 21, 2025Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, WIPP

Four Strikes and You’re Out In stunning news on December 18, Justin Horwath of the SF New Mexican reported that the management and operating contractor of Los Alamos National Laboratory will...

LANL contract up for bid after 2017

December 19, 2015August 28, 2018Los Alamos Nat'l Lab.

NukeWatch comment: As the trillion dollar “modernization” of U.S. nuclear forces moves forward, note how hollow the Department of Energy infrastructure is because of contractor greed, incompetence and waste. While...

SF New Mexican – LANL misses cleanup deadline set in 2005 for largest waste site

December 8, 2015May 6, 2025Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste

There are a couple of minor inaccuracies in this story, for instance – “which blazed through waste dump site “Area R.” Nor sure what this refers to. And – “...

NukeWatch Calls for Public Seats at the Table in LANL Cleanup Negotiations

December 7, 2015October 21, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, WIPP

For immediate release December 7, 2015 Contacts: Jay Coghlan, jay[at]nukewatch.org Deadline for Last Cleanup Milestone of LANL Consent Order Passes NukeWatch Calls for Public Seats at the Table in Negotiations Santa Fe,...

Deadline for Last Cleanup Milestone of LANL Consent Order Passes; NukeWatch Calls for Public Seats at the Table in Negotiations

Santa Fe, NM. Yesterday, December 6, was the deadline for the last compliance milestone in the Consent Order between the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the Department of Energy...

Pope Francis Calls for the Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

September 25, 2015December 11, 2023Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Weapons, Sandia National Laboratories

September 25, 2015 Pope Francis Calls for the Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Santa Fe, NM – In his speech today at the United Nations Pope Francis stated: The...

New Mexico’s Archbishop Cantú Helps Lead Vatican Charge for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

September 22, 2015December 11, 2023Nuclear Weapons

On Thursday morning, 9:30 EST/7:30 MT, Sept. 24 Pope Francis will address both houses of the U.S. Congress, viewable by webcast on C-SPAN. The next morning at 8:30 am EST/6:30...

Watchdogs Denounce Slap on Wrist for Illegal Lobbying Activities

August 22, 2015August 28, 2018Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Weapons, Sandia National Laboratories

Watchdogs Denounce Slap on Wrist for Illegal Lobbying Activities By the World’s Biggest Defense Contractor Demand Real Accountability by Barring Lockheed Martin From Future Sandia Labs Contract Santa Fe,...

August 12, 2015August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Watch New Mexico For immediate release August 12, 2015 Contacts: Jay Coghlan, NWNM, 505.470.3154, jay[at]nukewatch.org Hans Kristensen, FAS, 202.454.4695, hkristensen[at]fas.org Robert Alvarez, IPS, 301.585.7672,...

Amicus Brief in Support of Marshall Islands Lawsuit

In April 2015 the U.S. State Department issued a so-called Fact Sheet entitled Myths and Facts Regarding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Regime. Its targeted audience was international delegations attending...

Nuclear Weapons Experts File Amicus Brief to Support Marshall Islands Lawsuit to Require Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations Under U.S. NonProliferation Treaty Commitments

Hans Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists; Dr. James Doyle, a nuclear nonproliferation expert fired by Los Alamos National Lab after publishing a...

Major Protests at U.S. Warhead Facilities Across the Nation Unite to Decry Trillion Dollar Plan for New U.S. Nuclear Weapons

August 4, 2015May 6, 2025Environmental Impact, Kansas City Plant, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nevada National Security Site, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Pantex Plant, Sandia National Laboratories, WIPP, Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex

For more information: Ralph Hutchison, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, orep@earthlink.net <mailto:orep@earthlink.net> , 865-776-5050 Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, mailto:marylia@trivalleycares.org <mailto:marylia@trivalleycares.org> , 925-443-7148 Other key national and regional contacts are...

Please join Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Global Zero at CCA for the premier of “Message from Hiroshima.”

August 4, 2015October 21, 2025Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, WIPP

Please help us prepare for Thursday evening by registering today. Speaking of silent auctions, we have a great list of items that can be yours. For instance, one of the...

Response to the Inaccurate Wall St. Journal Op-Ed “The Faded U.S. Nuclear Deterrent”

July 15, 2015August 28, 2018Nuclear Security

On July 13, 2015 the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed entitled The Fading U.S. Nuclear Deterrent by Robert Monroe, a retired Navy vice admiral and former director of the...

Lockheed Martin’s illegal lobbying to extend Sandia contract

July 10, 2015October 23, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Weapons, Sandia National Laboratories

The Center for Public Integrity has come out with a hard-hitting article about illegal lobbying by the world’s biggest defense contractor Lockheed Martin to extend its management contract of the...

WIPP Sold With a 10,000 Year Guarantee

June 19, 2015October 21, 2025Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Waste, WIPP

WIPP Sold With a 10,000 Year Guarantee 10,000 years ago: Jericho has been inhabited for a thousand years Many megafauna go extinct, including the giant ground sloths, woolly rhinoceros,...

WATCHDOG GROUPS HEAD TO D.C.TO URGE CONGRESS TO CONFRONT “THE GROWING U.S. NUCLEAR THREAT”

May 14, 2015October 22, 2025Environmental Impact, Kansas City Plant, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Pantex Plant, Press Releases, Sandia National Laboratories, Savannah River Site, Washington DC, WIPP, Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability A national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup Nuclear Watch New Mexico May 14, 2015 WATCHDOG GROUPS...

Four Reasons Why U.S. Claims of NPT Compliance Are False

May 10, 2015May 6, 2025Kansas City Plant, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Security, Nuclear Weapons, Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex

Four Reasons Why U.S. Claims of NPT Compliance Are False In April 2015 the U.S. State Department issued a so-called Fact Sheet entitled Myths and Facts Regarding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...