In late 2006 the Department of Energy released a plan for "Complex 2030," a vast and comprehensive program to overhaul and “improve” the United States’ nuclear arsenal over the next 24 years.

The DOE wants to:

• Consolidate the entire US plutonium stock in one location.
• Systematically rebuild every single weapon in the US arsenal.

Building the new facilities alone is projected to cost more than 150 billion dollars, according to the General Accounting Office.

Complex 2030, dubbed “Bombplex 2030” by nuclear abolitionists, represents a serious threat to national and international peace and security.

• The plutonium consolidation plan means moving plutonium on our freeways and highways, and through our cities and towns. The potential for some sort of accident or deliberate terrorist targeting of these convoys makes this an unacceptable risk. Additionally, one central facility with all the US’s plutonium is far too dangerous: a natural disaster, an accident caused by human error, or an intentional act of sabotage at the facility would spell disaster for millions of people instantly.
  
  
• Rebuilding the US arsenal is the wrong thing to do. We need to work to rid the world of nuclear weapons, not spend time and money designing and building new ones. This reconfiguration of US nuclear facilities will dramatically increase nuclear weapons-making capabilities. If the United States is to try to stop North Korea, Iran, and other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it must also halt its own weapons development.
  
  
• Although this plan has been presented as rebuilding weapons rather than building new ones, it is in violation of a number of key anti-nuclear proliferation treaties. The United States needs to act in support of these treaties, many of which were hard-won victories that required years of effort.
  

Complex 2030 is a terrible use of 150 billion dollars. With a crumbling school system, a looming health care crisis, and increasing poverty in the United States, and a world that is filled with unmet basic needs for food, water, shelter, and sanitation, spending such an enormous amount of money on weapons of mass destruction is unconscionable.

What can you do to help?

• The Department of Energy was legally obligated to take public comments until January 17, 2007. Make a Comment Online (provided by our friends at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation).
  
  
• If you are able, consider attending a public hearing. The Department of Energy is accepting public comments in oral and written form. Download this list of Local Hearings and Organizers (PDF).
  
  
• Consider writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or submitting an op-ed piece. Many people are unaware of Complex 2030, and this lack of public information is being used to try to accelerate the process. Don’t let this program go through in secret!
  
  
• Written Comments can be addressed to:
  Theodore A. Wyka
  Complex 2030 SEIS Document Manager
  Office of Transformation
  U.S. Department of Energy, NA-10.1
  1000 Independence Avenue SW
  Washington, DC 20585
  
  
• Spread the word! Each comment counts.
  Printable Comment Postcard (PDF)