Obama Quietly Pushes For A Nuclear Weapons Renaissance, While Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear LabObama is building a new factory at Los Alamos for plutonium warhead cores, called "pits." That’s this $6 billion building in a complex of large supporting facilities. There is a new factory of comparable size proposed in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which is moving along, as well. And there is a factory under construction in Kansas City. Obama has proposed to replace the submarine nukes , replace the nuclear bombs, and replace some of the missiles, the cruise missiles particularly. Warheads are to be upgraded. "Obama has initiated an unprecedented level of increased spending on new factories for nuclear weapons, on upgrades to existing nuclear weapons, and additions to the stockpile. There’s a sense in the Whitehouse that if we don’t spend a lot of money on these things, that we’ll somehow fall behind the Russians. It’s really like a mini Cold War—quiet, in the background, but there’s a lot of money involved." Said Greg Mello, the director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a citizen-led nuclear disarmament group based in New Mexico. Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, told the Associated Press that the fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dump site where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a radiation dump site in southern New Mexico.
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