Then, in 2007, Livermore Lab was chosen to develop the first in a series of new U.S. nuclear weapons, under the so-called "Reliable Replacement Warhead" program. About 85% of all U.S. Department of Energy funding at Livermore Lab is for nuclear weapons activities.

Tri-Valley CAREs works to end all further nuclear weapons development, testing and production as an important step toward their global elimination. We believe that nuclear weapons decrease human security and pose one of the great social, economic and ecological challenges of our time. Our efforts have resulted in the cancellation of some weapons systems, but there is much yet to be done.

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Demand a new nuclear weapons policy!

Just sign and send the set of 4 postcards to let decision-makers know that you are in favor of a nuclear policy which prevents the spread of nuclear weapons, ends the pursuit of new warheads, halts continued weapons production, and calls for engagement with other nations to ensure that all existing stockpiles are verifiably dismantled.

1. Download and print the postcards
2. Copy on card stock -- you choose the color!
3. Sign all four postcards:
   • One for each presidential nominee
   • One for Paul Hughes, Executive Director Strategic Posture Review Commission
   • One for Chairman Byron Dorgan, Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy & Water
4. Stamp them and put them in the mail

Factsheets

• October, 2010 Power Point Presentation: "Modernization" of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: As Proposed and as it Should be

• Pie chart of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory FY 11 Budget Request

• Pie chart of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory FY 10 Budget Request

• Pie charts of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Los Alamos National Laboratory 2009 budget request showing percentage of funds dedicated to "weapons activities"

• How to Stop a "Bombplex", everything you need to know about "Complex Transformation" (DOE's proposed plan for the future of the nuclear weapons complex) and how to stop it!

• Fact sheets for the "Complex Transformation" National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) hearings:

  Complex Overview
  Reliable Replacement Warhead
  Alternatives
  All fact sheets as a single pdf
  

• The "Complex 2030" Plan to Make New Plutonium Pits and Build New Bombs (September 2007)

• More information about Complex 2030 (April 2007)

• Graphs of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory budget for 2006, 2007 & 2008 showing percentage of funds dedicated to "weapons activities" and the same data in table form. (May 2007)

• The Nuclear Posture Review and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (2005)

• Stockpile Stewardship - What LLNL and the DOE don't want you to know.

• Redefining our national security: Ending nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production

Reports

• Observations on NNSA's FY '09 Budget Request

• 2007 Budget Analysis - Still At It

• The "Slippery Slope" to New Nuclear Weapons

• 2006 Budget Analysis - Our One-Nation Arms Race

• Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Request for Nuclear Weapons

• More Work for the Weapons Labs, Less Security for the Nation: An Analysis of the Bush Administration's Nuclear Weapons Policy

• DOE's FY 2003 Budget Request for Nuclear Weapons Activities

• Managing the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile: A Comparison of 5 Strategies

• DOE's FY 2001 Nuclear Weapons Budget

Technical Comments & Comment Letters

• Our Man In Geneva: Urs Cipolat Reporting from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Preparatory Conference Meeting May, 2008

• Part One: The Nuclear Weapons Complex-wide Impacts and Part Two: The Impacts of "Complex Transformation" on Livermore Lab and Surrounding Communities of TVC's Public Comments on the DOE's Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement DOE/EIS-0236-S4 (also known as the "Bombplex" plan) -- April 30, 2008

Press Releases

• March 17th, 2008 - Residents, Peace, Religious, Environmental Organizations Protest Plans for New U.S. Nuclear Weapons "Bombplex"

• March 14th, 2008 - Public Hearings in Livermore and Tracy on Energy Dept. Plan to Build New Nukes, to Be Held on 5th Anniversary of Iraq War

• October 2nd, 2007 - Community to Confront "Complex Transformation" and New Nuclear Weapons at Livermore Lab

• December 11th, 2006 - Local Residents, Public Interest Organizations, Scientists, Workers Decry Plans for New U.S. Nuclear Weapons "Bombplex"

• December 8th, 2006 - Public Hearings In Livermore And Tracy, Ca On Energy Dept. Plan To Build New Nukes

• November 29th, 2006 - Independent Review of Department of Energy Study Undermines "Need" for New Nuclear Weapons

• January 26, 2006 - "Reliable Replacement Warhead" Program: The Slippery Slope to New Nuclear Weapons