“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 — has to be performed in accordance with the nation’s strongest environmental law”
SearchLight New Mexico, Alicia Guzman, October 17, 2024, article about plutonium pit production for the new nuclear arms
“https://searchlightnm.org/federal-judge-ruling-plutonium-pits-environmental-impact/”>https://searchlightnm.org/federal-judge-ruling-plutonium-pits-environmental-impact
“Most Americans don’t seem aware of it, but the United States is plunging into a new nuclear arms race. At the same time that China is ramping up its arsenal of nuclear weapons, Russia has become increasingly bellicose. After a long period of relative dormancy, the U.S. has embarked on its own monumental project to modernize everything in its arsenal — from bomb triggers to warheads to missile systems — at a cost, altogether, of at least $1.5 trillion.”
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