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The Department of Energy’s new Genesis Mission is being presented as a major national effort to use artificial intelligence to speed up “national security work”.

On August 6, 2026, peace activists and community members gathered outside the West Gate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and to demand the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The 90 day public comment period on the government’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) officially closed on July 16th.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is moving forward with an initiative known as “Project Velocity”, an ambitious effort to rewrite decades of internal rules governing the safety, construction, and oversight processes across the nuclear weapons complex.

They’ve increased the Pentagon Budget by 25% for 2027 to $1.5 trillion, largest ever, but don’t cross out War.

Today the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) notified the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), that it must publicly release three critical documents.

I’ve lived In Tracy for 30 years. I’ve watched our town grow from a handful to more than 100,000 residents. Yet, when I logged onto energy.gov to research the government’s plan to restart industrial-scale plutonium bomb core production, I read that the nuclear weapons location in our backyard, Site 300, is a “remote experimental testing facility.”

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s  (NNSA) nationwide plutonium pit production plan, in which Livermore Lab will be doing plutonium pit support work, is open for public comment.

On June 7, 2026, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) wrapped up its 94th annual meeting in Long Beach, California.

Tri-Valley CAREs’ Nuclear Policy Program Director, Tanvi Kardile, spoke on a panel alongside Jay Coghlan from Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Frank Von Hippel, Professor at Princeton University, at a Congressional briefing in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on June 4th.