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City Council OKs Plan for New Nuke Parts Plant
The National Nuclear Security Administration could continue to operate the existing Nuclear Weapons Plant in Kansas City and not lose a single job and not spend half a billion building a new plant when the US is supposed to be committed to eliminating, not building, new nuclear weapons. But it has blackmailed KC by suggesting they intend to close the current plant and build "somewhere else".
The City Council of Kansas City overwhelmingly approved the development plan for the new Kansas City Plant on Feb. 4. The facility, currently part of the Bannister Federal Complex, will move eight miles south to Botts Road and Mo. Hwy. 150, where it will continue producing non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons.
Councilman Ed Ford the only No Vote, explained why he would vote no on the new plant. “We (in Kansas City) are in the business of making components of weapons of mass destruction,” Ford pointed out. “If you think of the 2,500-or-so nuclear weapons (on active status) that we have, and just one of them goes off, the suffering in Haiti will seem insignificant.”
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The Washington Post' Walter Pincus is good at ignoring the larger picture and ambiguities in reporting on the NNSA budget. Nowhere in the below article is a mention of the 1990's "deal" of a similar nature that the Senate would not support the CTBT unless new nuke capabilities were created(modernized)! Nowhere is mentioned the obligations of the US under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Nowhere does he include the outrage of other folks in the "Arms Control Community". Thus his presentation of the situation strengthens the Kyl/neocon narratives about "realities" both political and strategic. He presentrs them as rational! Yikes! Intentionally?
Obama budget seeks 13.4 percent increase for National Nuclear Security Administration
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget blueprint calls for an increase in funding of more than 13 percent for the agency that oversees the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, a greater percentage increase than for any other government agency.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/PSRNational
Physicians for Social Responsibility is sponsoring a contest for the most creative ideas for a campaign to get Congress, the President and the Country how essential it is to take Nuclear Weapons off of Hair Trigger Alert! AKA Launch-on-Warning. Nice Prize for the best.
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