LOVE YOUR MOTHER STOP THE BOMBPLEX
The environment and Bombplex
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires a public comment period and analysis of ALL environmental impacts
of the "Complex Transformation" proposal to rebuild the nuclear weapons factory complex and make more new nuclear weapons.
NEPA's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process also requires comparing the proposed action to an alternative course of action.
More than 32,000 U.S. citizens said that the EIS must analyze disarmament as an alternative to building new bombs!
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rejected its public mandate to study disarmament and focused only on making more nuclear weapons. DOE has now published its draft EIS and concluded the impact of nuclear weapons is environmentally acceptable.
The public demands a truly comprehensive EIS analysis of nuclear weapons to inform our decisions about the greatest threat in history
to the environment and indeed all life on earth. DOE would have us pick from these two losing propositions —
1) Restart the Cold War with a grand scheme for exorbitantly expensive and dangerous new facilities to crank out atom bombs, or
2) Keep on keeping on with the current dangerous nuclear weapons infrastructure (which cranks out new bombs, too).
raise your voice and shape the future you hope to see for the world !
The world doesn’t need more atom bombs
DOE’s stated need for Bombplex and more atom bombs is baseless. Plutonium atom-bomb fuel has a shelf-life of thousands of years and we have 5,500 weapons of mass destruction armed and in the field. The nuclear-armed Trident submarines based at Kings Bay make Georgia the third largest nuclear superpower on Earth! (And the bombs in this unmatched weapons system are barely 20 years old.) The U.S. should quit wasting its awesome power and lead the world in disarming ALL nuclear weapons.
Disarm Now — Honor our treaty obligations
The exciting alternative to analyze for the EIS — Zero nuclear weapons!! Nuclear disarmament is the true path to global and national security. The U.S. started the nuclear arms race and the U.S. can stop it. Our genius, power and resources first created weapons of mass destruction that now hold the whole earth hostage. Let us put our leadership to diplomacy and begin to 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.
Our environment provides our defense and security
It’s time to kick The Bomb habit and switch to protecting our environment from DOE’s deadly nuclear waste inventory and stockpiles of weapons-grade nuclear materials. Let's embrace the “Mother of Alternatives” and launch a De-Manhattan Project to finally develop real nuclear waste technologies which will safeguard our air, water, and earth from the poisonous radioactive waste legacy of nuclear bombs. Addressing nuclear waste and dismantling nuclear weapons — securing plutonium, uranium and tritium that make bombs — these missions demand talented high-tech workers for many decades and produce a valuable technology export from our region.
“Do as I say, not as I do” is a crazy foreign policy
Decisions about atom bombs flow not from Pentagon war rooms but from the board rooms of huge, powerful government contractors. Bombplex is a wasteful corporate welfare program which would dangerously increase global tensions and decrease our own security as other countries (like Iran) would feel it is their right, and indeed, only defense against our vast nuclear arsenal to have atom bombs of their own. Now is the time for the U.S. to embrace disarmament — the International Court of Justice declared possession and manufacture of nuclear weapons to be illegal in 1996. The U.S. could start looking like the bad guys ...
Save the future
We are at a turning point and your comments in the EIS will help us choose to abolish nuclear weapons and establish disarmament and environmental protection as national priorities. Sign up to speak at this hearing and submit written comments!
E-mail or mail written comments:
Theodore A. Wyka, Complex 2030 SEIS Document Manager
U.S. Department of Energy, NA-10.1
1000 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20585
complextransformation@nnsa.doe.gov
Deadline April 10, 2008
Nuclear Watch South
P.O. Box 8574 • Atlanta, GA 31106
404-378-4263
info@nonukesyall.org • www.nonukesyall.org