Greg Mello with more on the Los Alamos Lab and why America is spending billions to build new nuclear bombs
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Greg Mello
Greg Mello, this week’s guest, is the Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, based in New Mexico. The Study Group, which Mello co-founded in 1989, is a non-profit organization for the purposes of policy analysis and education regarding nuclear weapons policies and institutions, particularly Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other energy and environmental issues. Dr. Caldicott first interviewed Mello in May. In this second conversation, they dig deeper into the new generation of bombs under development at U.S. nuclear weapons labs. They also cover Mello’s role advising government and sounding the alarm to educate journalists, scholars, and citizens. As background, read the October 8 blog item It’s Not Nuclear Weapons That Need “Modernization,” But New START and the Study Group’s October 1 press release Huge “emergency” funding increase for nuke labs today. Check out Massive giveaways to weapons manufacturers that will occur after the Senate ratifies the New START to hear a November 4 interview with another Study Group expert, Darwin BondGraham. Read BondGraham’s Oct 29 article START: Arms Affirmation Treaty. Longer show description to follow.