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LA Times - Aging Nuclear Arsenal Grows Ever more costly

The proposed cost of the U.S. nuclear weapons "modernization" program is estimated at $1 Trillion. Here, the LA Times takes a look at some of the costs. The article contains an especially good quote from Dr. Roger Logan, the former head of Directed Stockpile Work at Livermore Lab and a valued and longstanding friend of Tri-Valley CAREs. Read on...

"The source of some of those costs: skyrocketing profits for contractors, increased security costs for vulnerable facilities and massive investments in projects that were later canceled or postponed.

'We are not getting enough for what we are spending, and we are spending more than what we need,' said Roger Logan, a senior nuclear scientist who retired in 2007 from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 'The whole system has failed us'."

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