Greg Mello on America’s resurgent nuclear weapons program and unwavering nuclear posture
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Greg Mello
This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Greg Mello, a founder and Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, which provides leadership on nuclear disarmament and related issues in New Mexico. Since 1992, Mello has led the Study Group in its work on U.S. nuclear weapons policy, as well as Congressional edu-cation, community organizing, and litigation. Mello’s research and analysis have been published in a variety of places, including the Washington Post and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
May 11th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Dear Dr. Caldicott and Greg Mello,
Thank you so much for this information. The media keeps masking what is really going on with the nuclear industry and without your information, it is almost impossible to understand what is really going on. As you say, our government “pretends” to want to reduce our nuclear complex, but this is not true. I wish you could explain further why President Obama is supporting the building up of nuclear power as well.
I want to be part of the movement of change that Greg Mello and you describe. It is time for us to wake up. I hate that we are leaving a poisoned earth to our children. It is frightening and deplorable. I agree with so much of what Greg Mello says.
Young people are facebooking and there is a lot of information there. The anti-nuclear movement should mobilize there–that is where the a lot of environmental “action” is taking place–at least that is where the information is being shared. By the way, there was almost nothing about the recent event at the UN on the environmental websites on facebook. This says something about how the anti-nuke movement needs to push much harder to get the information about nuclear issues into the public eye.
I can’t wait to see your new webpage, Dr. Caldicott. It should be on facebook, too. I want to work with you! I support what you do and believe in!
Heidi Hutner
http://ecofeminism-mothering.blogspot.com/
May 13th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Greg’s home page is here:
http://lasg.org/
As to why “why President Obama [ actually better thought of as the monied/governing elite] is supporting the building up of nuclear power as well” , my $0.02 worth:
It is an easy industry to monopolize (highly technical, controlled entry), and thus one can receive income from rent (seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking). Many of the costs (tail liabilities, health concerns) can thus be avoided, a classic case of privatizing the benefits and socializing the costs.
Most folks are aware of Eisenhower’s warnings against the Industrial-Military-(Congressional) Complex, but seem unaware of the warning that immediately followed:
“Yet in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy itself could become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
May 14th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Young people are facebooking and there is a lot of information there. The anti-nuclear movement should mobilize there–that is where the a lot of environmental “action” is taking place–at least that is where the information is being shared. By the way, there was almost nothing about the recent event at the UN on the environmental websites on facebook. This says something about how the anti-nuke movement needs to push much harder to get the information about nuclear issues into the public eye.
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