Scrutinize nuke plans

San Francisco Chronicle- Marylia Kelley The U.S. government plans to produce 80 or more deadly plutonium bomb cores, called pits, to place inside new nuclear warheads. Manufacturing will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in...

Local nuclear weapons activities

Tracy Press- Patricia Howell May 8, 2026 Editor, Public hearing on nuclear weapons in our back yard! I am a director for Tri Valley Community Against Radioactive Environment (CARES). It is a citizen group that keeps watch on the activities of Lawrence Livermore...

Plutonium Hearing

Pleasanton Weekly Letters to the Editor- Marylia Kelley May 8, 2026 Tri-Valley residents have a rare opportunity to stem plutonium increases locally and impact nuclear weapons policy nationally at an upcoming public hearing. The National Nuclear Security...

LLNL’S Priority is Nuclear Weapons

The Independent- Tanvi Kardile April 23, 2026 The administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been released, and it is staggering. The one-year funding request for $3,202,772,000 is the highest ever for LLNL....

Plutonium Bomb Cores

The Independent- Marylia Kelley May 7, 2026   It’s May. Spring is in the air. Breathe deeply. But more plutonium too? The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to produce 80 or more plutonium bomb cores, called pits, each year to place inside new...