Hands Around Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab: Stop Weapons of Mass Destruction
The rally and march is intended to remember the horrific bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and say never again to nuclear war. Horrified by the death, destruction and desecration of life, the world has since maintained a moral firewall against the use of nuclear weapons.
Recently, the Senate voted to overturn the U.S. ban on designing "more usable" mini-nuclear weapons; research to design and develop these low yield nuclear weapons is already underway at Livermore Lab. Join us on August 10, for hands around Livermore Lab, to demand the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Under management by the University of California, Livermore Lab continues its deadly work developing new and exotic nuclear weapons. Scientists at Livermore and Los Alamos received $15 million to develop the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, a new nuclear weapon. The Bush Administrations’ work to overturn the ban on mini-nukes, further enables nuclear weapons to move from their historic role as a deterrent and place them on the shelf next to conventional weapons to be used in battlefield scenarios.
In addition to designing new nuclear weapons, the weapons Lab is taking on increased research of biowarfare agents, as part of LLNL’s new, central role as a research facility for the Department of Homeland Security. Livermore Lab has plans to operate a biowarfare agent facility by the end of summer. This will authorize the aerosolizing and genetic modification of deadly agents including live strains of anthrax and plague.
LLNL is moving forward with the biowarfare agent facility without public hearings or conducting a thorough environmental review in the form of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Join us in a petition drive to stop the biowarfare agent facility, until they do a thorough environmental review. Petitions can be downloaded from www.trivalleycares.org.
As Livermore Lab expands its dangerous work and continues to defy international law, we are reminded why it has been a site for nonviolent resistance for decades. Recently, many of you joined us for a civilian weapons inspection at Livermore nuclear weapons lab to demand global disarmament, when the United Nations readmitted weapons inspectors to Iraq in November. As the Bush Administration contemplates new potential targets to "disarm", it is time to come back to Livermore and demand global disarmament, starting at home.