No New US Nuclear Arsenal

January 11, 2007
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The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued an alert on the proposed nuclear armament expansion program.

Urge the Administration Not to Build New Nuclear Weapons

The Bush administration is proposing to rebuild the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, recreating the type of design, development, and production capability for nuclear weapons used in the United States during the Cold War. Fortunately, a mandatory environmental impact review of the Bush administration’s so-called “Complex 2030” proposal allows you to submit comments on this dangerous plan. Send a letter telling the administration to abandon its plans to produce thousands of new nuclear weapons and instead focus on cutting the already oversized U.S. nuclear arsenal.

What about our treaties? What about our supposed views on weapons of mass destruction?

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1 Scooper { 11.25.08 at 1:40 am }

Actually, Complex 2030 does not propose to rebuild the Cold War capability, and it is not an expansion program. The Cold War nuclear weapons manufacturing complex is falling into disrepair, and it is cheaper and more environmentally responsible to build a new, smaller, modern complex than to refurbish the old one.

The idea behind Complex 2030 is to develop a responsive infrastructure so we can “build down” the US nuclear stockpile. This would allow the US to move to a (possibly much) smaller stockpile backed up by a “live” manufacturing capability. The “live” (as opposed to dormant) manufacturing capability would allow the US to deal with any country that decided to take advantage of the US build-down by building up its own nuclear arsenal. The US could simply reverse course and match them until they realized the pointlessness of their ways, after which a mutual build-down could resume.

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