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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Tuesday, November 18, 2025 For further information contact: tanvi@trivalleycares.org or ianzabarte@gmail.com Las Vegas, Nevada - On November 21st, members of Livermore-based organization Tri-Valley CAREs will head to Peace Camp at the gates of the Nevada National Security Site to join experts and activists from around the country in a display of opposition to Trump’s recent statement suggesting the US will conduct nuclear tests. The gathering will include the member groups of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a national network of organizations of communities with nuclear weapons complexes that address issues about nuclear weapons production and environmental...

by Emma Claire Foley and Scott Yundt | Nov 4, 2025 |  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Tuesday, November 5, 2024 For further information, contact: info@defusenuclearwar.org or scott@trivalleycares.org In the early morning hours of November 5th, Vandenberg Space Force Base launched a Minuteman III missile, the current intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ground-based nuclear warhead delivery system in roughly 400 underground silos across five states that would target US adversaries in a full-scale nuclear war. This ICBM test, which landed roughly 30 minutes later at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, is one of several that occur at Vandenburg every year - as they have for many decades....

On the 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, We Will Join the Last Witnesses to Carry Forward Their Urgent Plea for a Nuclear Weapons Free World... "Never Again" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 1, 2025 Media Contacts: Marylia Kelley and Scott Yundt, Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA; cell, 925-255-3589, marylia@trivalleycares.org, scott@trivalleycares.org Grace Morizawa, Asian Americans for Peace and Justice, East Bay; cell, 510-289-1285, gmorizawa@yahoo.com Dr. Bob Gould, SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility; 415-408-8806, rmgould1@yahoo.com WHAT: "80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember Our History, Reshape Our Future" features a rally, symbolic die-in, and Japanese Bon Dance,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 9, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, 843-838-1171, GullGeeCo@aol.com Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org Scott Yundt, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925-443-7148, scott@trivalleycares.org AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, published a formal Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to complete a nationwide “programmatic environmental impact statement” on the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 17, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org Scott Yundt, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925-443-7148, scott@trivalleycares.org Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, 843-838-1171, GullGeeCo@aol.com AIKEN, S.C. — Nonprofit public interest groups have reached an historic settlement agreement with the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This is the successful result of a lawsuit against NNSA over its...

The National Nuclear Security Administration announced its proposal yesterday for “Enhanced Plutonium Facility Utilization” at its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The proposed plan would significantly increase the allowable quantities of nuclear weapons-grade plutonium stored at the Livermore Lab. It would likewise raise the allowable quantities to be trucked in and out of the Lab, using roads and freeways such as the nearby I-580. Further, according to the Federal Register Notice, this sudden change would enable the Lab to conduct riskier operations with plutonium above what is currently authorized. The new plan could also allow increases of other nuclear materials in addition to...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) releases an annual public document that discloses the environmental impacts of operations at the Livermore Main Site and Site 300 entitled “Site Environmental Report.” It presents environmental monitoring results, compliance (or non-compliance) with environmental standards, and outlines LLNL’s environmental protection and remediation programs for the previous year. The recently released report for 2023 includes sections such as an environmental “Compliance Summary, Environmental Program Information, Air Monitoring Programs, Water Monitoring Programs, Terrestrial Monitoring, Groundwater Investigation and Remediation, and Quality Assurance” and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Monday, November 4, 2024 For further information, contact: info@defusenuclearwar.org At 11:45 pm on Election Day, Nov. 5, activists from around the state will gather near Vandenberg Space Force Base to witness and protest the test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). During such tests, which occur several times a year, the weapons are launched from the Vandenberg base near Lompoc, Calif., and aimed at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.  Activists with the Defuse Nuclear War coalition issued the following statement on Saturday: We condemn these launches in the strongest possible terms as a wasteful, dangerous step backward for peace. Scheduling this...

October 2, 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS Scott Yundt Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment scott@trivalleycares.org (925) 443-7148 Tom Clements Director, Savannah River Site Watch tomclements329@cs.com  (803) 834-3084 Jay Coghlan Nuclear Watch New Mexico jay@nukewatch.org (505) 989-7342 Queen Quet Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition GullGeeCo@aol.com Ben Cunningham, Esq. South Carolina Environmental Law Project ben@scelp.org  (843) 527-0078 AIKEN, S.C. — On September 30, United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled that the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security...