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The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) can
be understood as the marriage of war-making and money-making,
conducted via thousands of projects spread out across
the globe affecting people in all social strata. In the
case of the United States, our ever increasing war-making
budget is parceled out to a network of corporations to
develop and manufacture war materials, including the American
arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Many billions
of American tax dollars each year are paid to Lockheed
Martin, Bechtel, and other corporations. The nuclear weapons
industry is part of the MIC.
The U.S. is currently spending more on its
nuclear weapons’ program than it did at any point
in the Cold War. Such spending continues to drain resources
that could be used to end hunger and other poverty related
conditions worldwide. Nuclear weapons facilities that
maintain high levels of activity in the MIC include the
Nevada Test Site, the Y-12 plant in Oakridge, Tennessee,
Lawrence Livermore Labs in California, Los Alamos in New
Mexico, and the Kansas City facility. Some in the MIC
are calling
to revamp the NTS's mission.If we truly seek a free
and democratic world, we must liberate ourselves from
a consciousness framed in fear and vengeance and disarm
the weapons of mass destruction here in our country.
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Revamping
the Nuclear Industrial Complex
National
Nuclear Security Administration Stockpile Stewardship
Program Quarterly Experiments
Campaign
for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
FCNL
Action Guide: Complex Transformation Q&A
Nevada
Test Site - Public Information Brief by H.O.M.E. Produced
by H.O.M.E.'s
John Hadder and edited by NDE's Jim Haber. This is a
short brief about ongoing activities at the NTS/NNSS
presented in the context of expanded nuclear weapons
spending for missile, bomb and warhead upgrades, even
as the arsenal has shrunk since the end of the Cold
War.
Predators & Reapers are remote-controlled, hunter-killer, unmanned aerial vehicles operated at Creech Air Force Base just outside of Las Vegas.
Subcritical Nuclear Tests and the Myth of Stockpile Stewardship
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