DISQUS

roma · 1 year ago

When are we going to realize that nuclear weapons are not needed? Why must our public officials think America needs to be the biggest bully on the block no matter the cost to our economic and moral future. Wilson is doing nothing more than pandering to a moderate crowd. We need a leader like Udall who is willing to tell it like it is even if what he has to say may be unpopular. All the hometown pandering and pork spending from elected officials is what has gotten us in these dire straights economically.

oyegithamu · 1 year ago

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons are needed, but just not in the numbers we have now. LANL needs to do more in cleaning up and not just at the funding trough.

anchorite · 1 year ago

I agree with the Republicans, Democrats, anti-nuclear activsts, and the LASG, but they are all missing part of the solution. The Republicans are right; we have to live within our means. However, we have plenty of money if we would forget about this humiliating and damaging "global war on terror." The Democrats and anti-nuclear activists are right to say that the labs' focus need to change. Nuclear weapons should not be a priority in an age when the greatest dangers come from our own misuse of the environment and waste of resources, which I believe they do. However, cutting funding to the labs is not going to ensure it goes to alternative energy research instead. And LASG is right in that changing SNL and LANL to alternative energy research centers is probably a hippie-fantasy, and the real changes will come from private business, like Tesla Motors or . However, that is no reason not to do it. The private sector isn't going to refrain from getting into the alternative energy biz because the feds have plans to maybe think about starting to convert some labs over to doing free research that will benefit everyone.