OUR ENVIRONMENT AND BOMBPLEX
2030
The United States Department of Energy (DOE)
proposes to fire the first shot of a New Cold War by making more atom
bombs. Before DOE can do anything, however, the law requires it to analyze
ALL environmental impacts of the proposal and to solicit comments
from the public. Our comments will be recorded and analyzed in an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
DOE also wants to limit our choices and comments for its Complex 2030 EIS. They say we can either restart the Cold War with a grand scheme for exorbitantly expensive and dangerous new facilities to crank out atom bombs, or we can keep on keeping on with the current dangerous nuclear weapons infrastructure (which cranks out new bombs, too).
Environmental Impact Statement.
Even a child knows that nuclear bombs destroy EVERYTHING!
Atom bombs are TERRIBLE for the ENVIRONMENT!
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SPEAK OUT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT
and STOP THE BOMBS!
DEADLINE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2007
“Do as I say, not as I do”
is a crazy foreign policy
Decisions about atom bombs flow not from the war rooms of the Pentagon
but from the board rooms of huge, powerful government contractors. Bombplex
2030 is nothing but a shameful corporate welfare program which would increase
global tensions and decrease our own security as other countries would
feel it is their right, and indeed, only defense against our vast nuclear
arsenal to have atom bombs of their own. It’s time for the U.S. to
face it — the International Court of Justice handed down a decision
TEN years ago that possession and manufacture of nuclear weapons is illegal.
It looks like WE are the bad guys. The EIS must consider the increased
threat of use of nuclear weapons from U.S. resumption of nuclear weapons
manufacture.
The world doesn’t need more
atom bombs
DOE’s stated need for Bombplex 2030 and more atom bombs is a bald-faced
lie. The shelf-life of plutonium which fuels the bombs is practically
forever and it is not true that the A-bombs in our arsenal (currently
5,500) are expiring and need to be replaced. Heaven knows, the nuclear-armed
Trident submarines based at Kings Bay make Georgia the world’s third
largest nuclear superpower! And the bombs in this unmatched weapons system
are barely 20 years old. The U.S. stands alone in sheer nuclear firepower.
Now is the time for the U.S. to stand down. The EIS must compare the
environmental benefits of reducing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal
with the risks of increased build-up.
Disarm Now — Honor our treaty obligations
Here’s an exciting alternative for the EIS — Zero nuclear weapons
by 2030!! Nuclear disarmament is the true path to global and national
security. The U.S. started the nuclear arms race and only the U.S. can
stop it. Our genius and resources created Weapons of Mass Destruction
that hold the whole earth hostage. Let us put our resources and minds
now to diplomacy and honor our Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations.
Savannah River Site’s experienced work force can dismantle warheads
and secure weapons-grade plutonium and uranium — heroic, honorable
missions which will create lots of long-term jobs. The EIS must compare
the environmental benefits of reducing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal
with the risks of increased build up.
The environment provides our security
It’s time to kick The Bomb habit and switch to protecting the environment
from DOE’s deadly nuclear waste inventory and stockpiles of weapons-grade
nuclear materials. We can embrace the “Mother of Alternatives”
and launch the De-Manhattan Project to finally, after 60 years, develop
real nuclear waste technology which will safeguard our air, water, and
earth from the poisonous legacy of nuclear waste. Addressing nuclear waste
and securing nuclear materials — plutonium, uranium and tritium —
that make bombs will provide important, high-tech jobs for many decades
while developing a lucrative technology export for our region. The
EIS must compare the cost benefits and environmental impacts of 100% commitment
to clean up and ending the production of nuclear weapons.
Your vision and voice shape our
future!
We are at a turning point and your comments in the EIS will help us choose
the environment over The Bomb. E-mail or FAX your written comments today.
Our future depends upon it — and that's the truth!
SPEAK OUT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT!
DEADLINE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2007
Address comments to:
Theodore A. Wyka, Complex 2030 SEIS Document Manager
Office of Transformation
U.S. Department of Energy
E-mail: complex2030@nnsa.doe.gov
or FAX 703-671-5197
www.complex2030peis.com
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