by Scott Yundt | Aug 8, 2024 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2024 to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The theme of the event was, Back from the Brink: the imperative of nuclear abolition. A...
by Scott Yundt | Aug 1, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB or “Board”) is an independent oversight organization within the executive branch of the United States government. Established in 1988, the DNFSB’s primary goal is to advise the Department of Energy...
by Scott Yundt | Jul 22, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
Legal Battle Over Plutonium Pit Production & NEPA Compliance The Tri Valley CAREs lawsuit against the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (“NNSA”) challenging plutonium pit production at the Savannah River...
by Dasha Orel, Tri-Valley CAREs Intern | Jun 14, 2024 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons, Past Event
Daniel Ellsberg was the whistleblower who had spread the Pentagon Papers to the public. He was initially sentenced to 115 years in prison for this leak (dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct). Eventually, the contents of the Pentagon Papers led to...
by Jonah Henry | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
More than 45 Palestinian civilians were killed on May 26 in a fire caused by an unprovoked Israeli airstrike at the Kuwait Peace Camp 1 in Rafah1. According to images reviewed by weapons experts, the bombs that Israel dropped were American bombs called GBU-39s2. The...
by Scott Yundt | Jun 13, 2024 | Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
This June 16 will mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Daniel Ellsberg, the renowned scholar, whistle-blower and activist whose revelations about the Vietnam War with the Pentagon Papers sparked a national crisis of conscience in the 70’s. He is not...
