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Dat concept bevielen de VS toch zo goed? [knip fok-vertaling] -------- Origineel artikel: ------- Embattled Lab Unveils New Nukes By Noah Shachtman Story location 01:18 AM Apr. 23, 2003 PT The United States' arsenal of 10,000 nuclear weapons isn't enough. The country needs more bombs, and the place to make them is the scandal-plagued Los Alamos National Laboratory. That seems to be the meaning behind yesterday's announcement by Los Alamos officials that the lab has constructed the first plutonium pit -- the deadly heart of a nuclear warhead -- that's bomb-ready. It's been 14 years since the last one was completed. The United States hasn't had the ability to make the pits since the FBI stopped production at the Energy Department's Rocky Flats plant for environmental violations in 1989. It's the opening trickle in what is scheduled to eventually become a torrent of new nuclear cores. For the next four years, Los Alamos will make about a half-dozen pits per year. After that, capacity will ramp up to 10 pits per year -- and then to as many as 500 new pits annually, as the new U.S. Modern Pit Facility comes online in 2018. According to the Bush administration's central plan for atomic weapons, the Nuclear Posture Review, making additional nuclear cores is key to keeping America's potential adversaries cowed. The ability to "upgrade existing weapon systems, surge production of weapons or develop and field entirely new systems … (will) discourage other countries from competing militarily with the United States," the review says. In other words, the mere threat of blowing up opposing countries a thousand times over isn't enough. America must have the option to make more nuclear weapons -- and faster -- than any other nation on earth. This first pit is designed to go into a W-88 warhead -- the same kind of warhead that's carried on a Trident II D5 submarine-launched cruise missile, whose design Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was accused of stealing in the 1990s. The pit is meant as a backup, more or less, in case testing reveals safety or reliability concerns. "We don't know how plutonium ages," said Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Monterey Institute's Center for Non-Proliferation Studies. "If it turned out that in one weapon aging plutonium created uncertainty, we might want to remanufacture the pits." "This is sort of like making replacement engines for a few cars, not making a whole line of new cars," Bryan Wilkes, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, added. But the United States already has about 5,000 pits in reserve, stored at the Energy Department's Pantex plant in Texas, noted Jay Coghlan, with Nuclear Watch of New Mexico. Los Alamos' current grapefruit-size plutonium core, weighing 3 to 4 kilograms, took $350 million to make. Another $1.2 billion will be needed between now and 2007 to test that one and manufacture the rest of the Los Alamos pits that will be made in the next four years. The program at Los Alamos began in 1996 with testing and production. The pit announced yesterday was the first to meet required standards and will go through further testing until 2007. "The U.S. has been fabricating pits for decades. We made the first one (during World War II) in three years. Why (does) it take nearly a decade for one, single, certifiable pit? It's scandalous," said Christopher Paine, a senior researcher at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The lab has complexified this problem as a way to rob the taxpayer." Los Alamos officials did not return calls asking for comments on the story. This isn't the first time that Los Alamos has been accused of ham-handed management or loose accounting. Lab director John Browne and other officials were forced to step down after several employees were accused of using government money to finance personal purchases -- including a $30,000 Ford Mustang. Two former police chiefs were brought in to investigate these charges. But the pair were fired after revealing what they knew to Energy Department officials. The dismissals triggered a series of Congressional hearings into the University of California's management of the lab. The school has been running Los Alamos on behalf of the Energy Department since the lab's inception, 60 years ago. Now, even Los Alamos' most ardent supporter on the Hill, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), is calling for the lab's $2 billion-per-year management contract to be put up for competitive bid when it expires in 2005. To Greg Mello, with the Los Alamos Study Group, yesterday's new pit declaration was an attempt by the University to say "We can contribute to national security." But the pits can also be put in a larger context, Nuclear Watch's Coghlan points out. The Nuclear Posture Review expanded America's list of nuclear targets to include countries like North Korea, Syria and Iran. Those countries could be hit with preemptive nuclear strikes if they were found to have weapons of mass destruction. The White House considered such an attack on Iraq in the months leading up to the second Gulf War, the Los Angeles Times reported. Saddam wouldn't have been afraid of such a threat, the nuclear hawk argument goes, if he didn't believe the hearts of these weapons were shiny and new. "We need an arsenal that everybody believes is perfect," said Spector, from the Monterey Institute. "That's the whole concept of deterrence."
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en haar missie "The Cold War has ended, but it has been largely replaced by new and evolving threats to our national security." Kritiek: Los Alamos study group Meer info van Los Alamos Study Group
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Ik heb een artikel gevonden hierover op de Los Alamos website zelf:
Los Alamos restores U.S. ability to make nuclear weapons Contact: Jim Danneskiold, jdanneskiold@lanl.gov, (505) 667-1640 (03-054) LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 22, 2003 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully made the first nuclear weapons pit in 14 years that meets specifications for use in the U.S. stockpile The six-year effort at Los Alamos' plutonium processing facility restores the nation's ability to make nuclear weapons, a capability the United States lost when the Rocky Flats Plant near Boulder, Colo., shut down in June 1989. On hand to mark the milestone and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Laboratory's founding were U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-NM, Ambassador Linton Brooks, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, University of California President Richard Atkinson and Ralph Erickson, manager of NNSA's Los Alamos Site Office. "The Laboratory has delivered on a major commitment to the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, Congress and the taxpayers," said Pete Nanos, Los Alamos' interim director. A pit is the fissile core of a nuclear weapon's physics package. The newly made pit, called Qual-1 because it was built with fully qualified processes, is for the W88 warhead, which is carried on the Trident II D5 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile, a cornerstone of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. "Our next challenge is to carry out the required experiments, analyses and computer modeling so we can certify that this newly manufactured pit will perform reliably in the stockpile, without conducting underground nuclear tests," Nanos said. Los Alamos' certification work includes fundamental physics experiments, material studies, ongoing subcritical experiments at the Nevada Test Site and hydrodynamic experiments at the newly completed Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrotest facility. Los Alamos has committed to complete the certification process and to have the ability to deliver a pit to the military that meets all stockpile requirements by 2007. Los Alamos will make roughly half a dozen pits a year from now until 2007 to ensure certification is completed successfully and to put into place the capacity to begin making 10 stockpile pits a year by 2007. The Department of Energy identified the Laboratory as the site to recapture the nation's capability to manufacture nuclear weapon pits through the 1996 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Environmental Impact Statement. The DOE selected Los Alamos in part because the Laboratory has the nation's only full-capability plutonium facility, and has made pits since the 1940s. Without the fabrication capability Los Alamos has regained, the nation could not replace stockpile pits in the future. New pits will be needed to replace those in the current stockpile used during periodic destructive surveillance, or any pits that the surveillance program identifies with problems that affect weapon safety, reliability or performance. To make Qual-1, Los Alamos brought back the expertise, along with drawings, specifications and equipment. The Plutonium Facility at Technical Area 55 was modified, new equipment acquired and new technologies, materials and processes developed. More than 700 Laboratory staff and contractors have been involved in the effort that culminated in Qual-1, many working overtime. The Laboratory has made 18 pits in the current program to recapture the capability to manufacture pits. The first pit, called Early Development Unit-1, was completed in February 1998. In August 2002, the Laboratory made the first pit that exercised all 42 processes required to make a certifiable pit, one that could be certified for placement in the active nuclear weapons stockpile. In December 2002, all 42 processes were qualified. Qual-1 is the first pit manufactured in accordance with all 42 qualified processes, which required extensive testing and analysis to demonstrate rigorous control. In other words, Qual-1 meets all quality requirements and could be placed in the stockpile if needed, once all the required engineering and physics tests have been completed. All these processes went through step-by-step design, engineering and production reviews to confirm that the processes result in pits that meet specifications. "All of these manufacturing processes meet today's health, safety, and environmental regulations, so some materials and processes differ from those used at Rocky Flats," Nanos said. Los Alamos cleans pits with environmentally responsible cleaners instead of solvents that are prohibited today. Rocky Flats used a wrought process to make the initial shape while Los Alamos casts the part. Rocky Flats used machine oil for all the manufacturing steps, while Los Alamos dry machines its pits and adds lubricant only for the final pass. Los Alamos pits are welded with lasers instead of older electron beam welders. In December 1999, the Laboratory committed to complete a Qual-1 pit before June 2003. In March 2001, a baseline agreement between the Laboratory and the NNSA set deadlines and cost estimates for the current plan. Los Alamos and NNSA report to Congress quarterly on progress in meeting the plan milestones. The total cost of the manufacturing program to date is roughly $350 million; the total project cost for the manufacturing and certification program, beginning with the new baseline, is estimated at $1.5 billion. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission. Los Alamos enhances global security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health and national security concerns. BRON
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25 feb 2003: "LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico -- There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple. To sneak into Los Alamos National Laboratory, the world's most important nuclear research facility, all you do is step over a few strands of rusted, calf-high barbed wire." Bron
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hey erm... iedereen... ik weet ook wel dat dit een ernstig bericht is en dat ik vind dat er actie genomen moet worden,... maar om nu te gaan zeggen dat er een aanslag gepleegd moet worden...
mm dat was niet de bedoeling van mijn bericht iig.
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dit slaat echt werkelijk alles he! ![]() ![]() waarom doen ze dat? er is geeeneens een normale reden voor, en niemand helemaal niemand die er wat aan doet he, ooh belachelijk, bah getverdemme ![]() ![]()
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(maar het aller aller allerbelangrijkste zal toch wel 13 verdiepingen onder de grond liggen en dat zal misschien wel streng beveiligd zijn)
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(waarom reageer ik hier nog op?)
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Fok zegt dat Amerika meer nukes wil kunnen bouwen dan welk land ook ter wereld. Die conclusie kan best wel juist zijn, maar kan echter niet worden afgeleid uit het artikel van Los Alamos. Fok vertelt als je de titel mag geloven dat Amerika zijn arsenaal aan Nukes wil gaan uitbreiden. Dit is ook onjuist. In her artikel staat toch duidelijk dat ze het verouderde matreaal willen vervangen. http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/r...e/03-054.shtml
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Ik vind het gewoon niet leuk dat je mij kortzichtigheid verwijt . Ik laat mij gewoon niet snel wijsmaken wat nieuwsberichten mij proberen te vertellen. Ik vind het zeer schadelijk dat nieuwssites zoals fok maar klakkeloos artikelen overpennen zonder te kijken of wat er staat ook wel juist is. Dat maakt het naar mijn idee een onbetrouwbare nieuwssite.
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![]() ![]() Nahja... je hebt in ieder geval de fouten uit de vertaling gehaald. da's ![]() (enneh,.. die houding moet je houden zo! ![]()
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Uiteraard was het veel beter geweest van je als je direct het nieuwsbericht van Los Alamos had gebruikt er daar zelf een kleine samenvatting had gemaakt.... Dat voorkomt namelijk dat je flauwekul van anderen meeneemt.
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Ik snap die Amerikanen niet zo
Eerst willen ze Afghanistan terugpakken wegens die aanslag 9/11 Dan gaan ze Irak platbombarderen omdat 'daar weleens verboden wapens kunnen zijn'...die volgens mij nog steeds niet gevonden zijn. En nou dit weer :? Wanneer houdt het eens een keer op jongens? Serieus ik krijg met de dag meer hekel aan dit soort persoontjes.
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" "We don't know how plutonium ages," said Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Monterey Institute's Center for Non-Proliferation Studies. "If it turned out that in one weapon aging plutonium created uncertainty, we might want to remanufacture the pits." "
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Mja ik had al eerder gehoord dat het aantal kernwapens minder werd. Maar de schade die dat kleinere arsenaal kernwapens aan kan richten richten werd juist groter
offtopic: 4 (nieuws)artikelen op K5 over de VS: Blood for oil Weapons, Lies, and the United States Breastfeeding Now Considered Pornographic The Decline of Sex Science and the Decline of Society
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Ook al worden de oudere kernwapens afgekeurd, dan zie ik nog niet in waarom ze die opeens moeten vervangen, volgens mij houden ze ook zonder de paar oudste nukes nog genoeg over om de wereld ettelijke malen op te blazen.
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Omdat Rumsfeld graag wil dat Amerika gestraft wordt, betekent dat nog niet dat heel Amerika dat wil. Zelfs minister Powell wil graag dat de relatie met Frankrijk wordt verbeterd.
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bron: http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=139770&c=22
VS onderzoeken ontwikkeling nieuwe kernbom Uitgegeven: 28 april 2003 09:05 TOKIO - De Amerikaanse regering gaat bekijken of ze een nieuw soort kernwapen kan ontwikkelen. De bom graaft zich de grond in om daar bunkers te verwoesten. De studie komt nadat president Bush een verbod op 'mini-kernwapens' onder tafel heeft geveegd. Dat meldde maandag het Japanse persbureau Kyodo op gezag van bronnen in het Amerikaanse Congres. Het nieuwe wapen heeft al een naam: de Robuuste Nucleaire Aarde Indringer. De bom zou gepantserde bunkers diep onder de grond moeten kunnen bereiken. Het Congres heeft al 15 miljoen euro uitgetrokken voor het onderzoek, onder de noemer van defensie-uitgaven. Volgens de wet moet eerst de behoefte aan zo'n nieuw wapen worden aangetoond. Het Pentagon meldde dat de studie nu snel van start gaat. Resultaten worden in 2006 verwacht. Sommige wapendeskundigen noemen het nieuwe wapen nu al onnodig en gevaarlijk. Zo vraagt de Democratische Senator Akaka zich af of de nucleaire straling die diep in de aarde vrijkomt geen schade aan het oppervlak veroorzaakt. en the story continues ![]()
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Het blijft hypocriet want kernwapens zijn ook massa-vernietigingswapens. Kernwapens zijn in strijd met het internationaal recht. Het Internationaal Gerechtshof heeft in zijn uitspraak van 8 juli 1996 de fundamentele regels van het oorlogsrecht aangeduid die van toepassing zijn op kernwapens. Ten eerste dat onderscheid moet gemaakt worden tussen oorlogsvoerenden (combattanten) en burgers en dat bijgevolg nooit gebruik mag gemaakt worden van wapens die niet in staat zijn onderscheid te maken (atoombommen). Ten tweede is het verboden onnodig lijden toe te brengen aan oorlogsvoerenden en mogen bijgevolg geen wapens gebruikt worden die dergelijk onnodig lijden toebrengen.
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En als de Amerikaanse regering iets wil, wil dat inderdaad nog niet zeggen dat heel Amerika dat wil. Beetje jammer alleen dat redneck Jason Twain op zijn maisakkertje vrij weinig te zeggen heeft in de internationale politiek. Ik ben verder niet erg pro-Amerika, nee. |
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