Weapons projects undermine Obama’s disarmament vision, critics say
By Joshua McElwee
New nuclear weapons projects are planned at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Kansas City Plant in Missouri. In fact, the pace of nuclear component development at these sites appears to be increasing.
For example, a major new nuclear component plant is well into the planning stage in Kansas City and it is to replace the aging current plant.
Each city’s weapons facility creates parts for U.S. nuclear weapons.
Nickolas Roth, director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, said the work at these plants involves “substantial new nuclear weapons projects.”