What’s New
Take Action: Save New START! Stop a New U.S.- Russia Arms Race
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – the New START Agreement – is set to expire on February 5, 2026, just this week!
TVC Celebrated 5 Years of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons!
January 22, 2026 marked the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)!
Urgent! Sign and Send a Comment on the Final Site-Wide EIS for Livermore Lab
On November 3, 2023 the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released the Final Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Continued Operations of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Of note, the document does not clarify which of the two...
Giving Tuesday
Season's Greetings, Tri-Valley CAREs' year may be wrapping up, but our work pursuing peace, justice and a healthy environment is as busy as ever! With our 40th Anniversary Party coming up (you are invited), the Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for...
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – States Parties Meet Next Week at the United Nations to Strengthen the Ban!
From Monday, November 27th to Friday, December 1st, the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will meet at the United Nations in New York to review progress on the treaty's implementation and agree on further action to strengthen it. The...
House Armed Services Hearing on Dangerous Strategic Posture Report – Wednesday 11/15
Due to concern about a perceived growing nuclear threat from our “adversaries” Russia and China, Congress inserted in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act a mandate to establish a “Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.” Made up...
ALERT: Lab Environmental Plan Increases Nuclear Danger & Airborne Releases
Today the National Nuclear Security Administration released the Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operations of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (SWEIS) that purports to analyze all of the potential impact to the environment of the Lab...
Tri-Valley CAREs Joins Call to Support the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
The progression toward a renewed nuclear arms race took another step forward today when Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing Russia's ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests. "Russia's action will only serve to set back...
Tri-Valley CAREs 40th Anniversary Celebration
TRI-VALLEY CAREs is proud to announce its 40th Anniversary! 2023 marks 40 years since a dedicated group of Livermore and Tracy residents gathered around a kitchen table and decided to form a watchdog organization. It was 1983, and this group believed that the...
40 @ 40! A Sampler of Accomplishments
On the happy occasion of our 40th anniversary, we invite you to contemplate 40 of our successes through the years. We conducted original research and produced reports that have been cited by delegates to the United Nations, U.S. members of Congress, major media...
Tri-Valley CAREs Lays Out Its Annual Strategic Plan
Tri-Valley CAREs board and staff met for a half day strategic planning session in late September. We started by discussing our accomplishments and shortcomings from the past year. We then discussed our strengths and weaknesses as an organization as we move forward. This was followed by a discussion about strategic opportunities and threats in the coming year…
Tri-Valley CAREs’ Executive Director Scott Yundt talks with Chris Nelson on the KZFR Chico Peace and Justice Hour
October 6, 2023 - Scott Yundt (Tri-Valley CAREs) LISTEN HERE ► CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS >
New Opportunity to Cut Funds for Plutonium Pits and the W87-1 Warhead
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs members and friends, Here is a time-critical opportunity for you to influence the federal nuclear weapons budget. Because the government did not shut down, the House scheduled vote for today and tomorrow on H.R. 4394, the House Energy and Water...
Take Action to Support the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Today!
After years of advocacy from affected communities and advocacy groups, legislative action to strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is closer than ever to victory. RECA provides partial compensation to communities across the country harmed by...
We Remember California Senator Dianne Feinstein
Today, as we learn of the passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein, we want to take a moment to reflect upon Tri-Valley CAREs’ long working relationship with her and her staff. Senator Feinstein leaves a long, immensely consequential, and complex legacy. Tri-Valley CAREs’...
Contained Firing Facility Accident at Livermore Lab
Tri-Valley CAREs recently uncovered the details of a serious accident at Livermore Lab’s Site 300 High Explosives Testing Facility outside of Tracy, California. Upon detonation, an over-pressurized experiment exploded beyond expectation and caught fire in the...
Bay Area Groups Mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Livermore Lab with Program Honoring Daniel Ellsberg and New Film Debut (Link is below…)
On the morning of Friday, August 4th, as thousands of employees drove past on their way into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
KPFA News Interviews TVC: “Peace activists rally at Livermore Laboratory for nuclear disarmament, ahead of 78th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima”
Peace activists rally at Livermore Laboratory for nuclear disarmament, ahead of 78th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima – Interviews with Scott Yundt and Marylia Kelley
Media Adv: Lab Hiroshima vigil to honor Ellsberg, Debut film
Contacts: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925.255.3589 (cell) Grace Morizawa, Asian-Americans for Peace & Justice, 510.289.1285 For immediate release, August 2, 2023 Bay Area Groups to Mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Livermore Lab with Program Honoring Daniel...
August 4 Updates: Gathering at Livermore Lab; and Link for Daniel Ellsberg Tribute Film
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tri-Valley CAREs and other peace and justice groups that are part of the Livermore Conversion Project. Our 2023 event features a vigil at the Livermore Lab West Gate and a film tribute to...
Join us on Friday, August 4 at the Livermore Lab
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Livermore Conversion Project, a collaborative of Bay Area peace groups including Tri-Valley CAREs. At this years’ event at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab we will honor the life of our...
Save the Date: Join us for a Special Screening of the Oppenheimer Film in SF
You’re invited to a private pre-screening of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, Oppenheimer, on Wednesday, July 19, in San Francisco at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (2550 Mission St.). This Bay Area event, which is scheduled just in advance of the film’s pubic release,...
Event Replay: Nuclear Fusion “Breakthrough”?
View the Zoom recording above or here of the recent panel event on June 8, 2023 hosted by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and featuring Marylia Kelley, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Tri-Valley CAREs! The expert discussion covered the history and nuclear...
Livermore Lab
Livermore Lab is one of two locations that designs every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. Much of the weapons work takes place at the Livermore Lab Main Site, located along Vasco Road and East Avenue. More than 90,000 people live in Livermore and nearly 8 million...
Site 300 priorities
Editor, I have lived in Tracy for many years, and because of the work of a non-profit group, Tri-Valley CAREs, I learned about Site 300, Livermore Lab’s high explosives testing range located on Corral Hollow Road near the new Tracy Hills housing development. Some of...
Virtual Panel on Nuclear Fusion “Breakthrough”? Featuring Tri-Valley CAREs Executive Director & Co-Founder, Marylia Kelley – June 8 – 11:00-12:15pm PST
Join us June 8 for this virtual panel – In December 2022, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
Livermore Lab Budget: Everything for Nukes, Pennies for Cleanup
As the United States debates paying its prior year bills (the debt) and some members of Congress want draconian cuts to social programs that make up less than 15% of the federal budget, military spending continues to spiral out of control. The President’s Fiscal Year...
Tri-Valley CAREs and Colleagues Recently Held a Congressional Staff Briefing on Plutonium Pits
You may have heard that Tri-Valley CAREs was recently in Washington, DC with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) for its annual advocacy week – “DC Days 2023”. On Friday, April 28, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations put the “capstone” on DC Days...
DC Days 2023
Your Tri-Valley CAREs team has just returned from a consequential week in Washington, DC meeting with members of Congress and the Biden Administration. In DC, we were joined by 50 activists from other front-line communities around the country for the Alliance for...
Environmental awareness
Editor, Earth Day is an annual event that began in 1970 as a way to increase environmental awareness. This message has become even more relevant today. Tri-Valley CAREs and its Tracy members are delighted to participate in Tracy Earth Day 2023. We will have a booth...
Join us in Celebrating Tracy Day 2023!
Tracy will be holding an Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. next to Farmers Market on 9th Street and Central Ave, downtown Tracy. We invite you to come to Tracy's Earth Day event for some family fun. Together, we will...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab
The annual Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab was a hybrid event this year. A couple dozen participants from the Ecumenical Peace Institute, Livermore Conversion Project, and Tri-Valley CAREs met at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab’s West Gate. Many more...