|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
- The Military Industrial Complex - |
|
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.
[Download document in Word
////////// PDF]
Revamping
the Nuclear Industrial Complex
Campaign
for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
FCNL
Complex Transformation Fact Sheet
Predators & Reapers are remote-controlled, hunter-killer, unmanned aerial vehicles operated at Creech Air Force Base just outside of Las Vegas.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| NUCLEARISM:
/NU-klee-ir-êsm/ [Mod. Eng., Psych., Relig.] (n) 1. ideology
among some U.S. Americans and their allies in which nuclear weapons
are held in such high esteem that they are regarded as essential
to maintaining worldwide U.S. military and economic dominance.
2. belief rising in the late 20th century among many scientists,
military persons, corporations, government agencies, and others
within the military-industrial complex that nuclear weapons are
useful, valuable, and needed to maintain/enforce "peace."
3. habitual engagement in working for the nuclear industry. 4.
"death cult" (often subconsciously observed) which believes
that peace is created by ultimate violence or threats of ultimate
violence (i.e. the power to annihilate others); the worship of
the deadliest substance that humans have created to-date. |
|
|
| |
|
| In
1992, the United States signed the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty. Between 1992-1997 the United States in accordance
with the Treaty stayed the all forms of nuclear testing. Since
1997, sub-critical nuclear testing has occurred regularly
in violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Sub-critical
testing is the term used to describe the process of testing
component pieces of a nuclear bomb without inducing a full
explosion. While sub-critical testing is less politically
visible, the resumption of any form of testing reinvigorates
the nuclear weapons’ machine and greatly increases the
possibility of a return to full scale testing in the near
future. |
|
|
|
| |
|
| -
Recent Nuclear Tests - |
1st Post-Moratorium
U.S. Subcritical Test 2 July 1997, “Rebound,”
Los Alamos
2nd Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 18 Sept 1997, “Holog,”
Livermore
3rd Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 25 March 1998, “Stagecoach,”
4th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 26 September 1998,
“Bagpipe,” Nevada
5th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 11 October 1998,
“Cimarron,”
6th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 9 February 1999,
“Clarinet,”
7th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 27 September 1999,
“Oboe”
8th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 10 October 1999,
“Oboe” 2
9th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 6 February 2000,
“Oboe 3,”
10th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 22 March 2000,
“Thoroughbred,” Nevada Lyner facility
11th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 9 April 2000, “Oboe
4”
12th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 18 August 2000,
“Oboe 5”
13th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 14 December 2000
“Oboe 6” Nevada
14th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 26 September 2001
“Oboe 8” Nevada
15th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 13 December 2001
“Oboe 7” Nevada
16th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 14 February 2002
“Vito” Nevada
17th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 7 June 2002 “Oboe
9” Nevada
18th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 29 August 2002
“Mario” Nevada
19th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 26 September 2002
“Rocco” Nevada
20th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 19 September 2003
“Piano” Nevada
21th Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 25 May 2004 “Armando”
Nevada
22nd Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 23 February 2006
“Krakatau” Nevada
23nd Post-Moratorium U.S. Subcritical Test 30 August 2006
"Unicorn" Nevada |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
