Oppenheimer’s Legacy: South Carolina and SRS at the Center of the New Nuclear Arms Race
In case you missed the August 16, 2023 Zoom event about the role of the U.S. Department of Energy (and the Savannah River Site in particular) in the new nuclear arms race, it’s archived on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9YOFoT6r0
Thanks for the event sponsorship of the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club & the Midlands Group of the Sierra Club.
The event featured speakers Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, David Matos, Carolina Peace Resource Center & Tom Clements from SRS Watch (Columbia, SC).
Please send Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) a latter about the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant. He won’t take a public position against it or the nuclear arms race it presents.
SRS Watch factsheet on plutonium pits, with link to draft letter to Rep. Clyburn (edit, date, sign, print full name & address at bottom):
or
https://srswatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SRS-pit-fact-sheet-May-19-2023.pdf
Photos: Mock-ups of Little Boy (Hiroshima gun-type bomb, with highly enriched uranium; the longer “bomb”) and Fat Man (Nagasaki implosion bomb, with plutonium produced at Hanford; the larger, fatter “bomb”) – Los Alamos, New Mexico nuclear weapons propaganda museum; by Tom Clements, July 23, 2023