Bulletin 378: Virtual workshop on largest nuclear warhead project since the Cold War TOMORROW 4/26 (you must register to attend), and in person on Monday 4/27 in Santa Fe
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Prior Bulletin (377): with more background: Will New Mexicans give Donald Trump more nuclear weapons with which to fuel his dreams of world domination? Workshops 4/26 and 4/27; public hearings follow (04/22/2026)
In a nutshell
This Administration aims to greatly accelerate the development and production of nuclear weapons. Their plan has weaknesses galore, but they hope we will be too distracted to notice them, or to resist.
Public hearings are coming in May, but "they" won't be listening absent the art, heart, truth, and authenticity we bring. Let's prepare ourselves. It's an opportunity, that can bring others.
We urge you to attend one of these workshops if you can:
- Monday April 27: In-person workshop from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Road (map), regarding the upcoming DOE pit production hearings
Then, we hope you will attend these hearings, as you are able (more details at this link):
- South Carolina: May 5, 2026 – North Augusta Community Center, North Augusta, SC.
- Missouri: May 7, 2026 – Hillcrest Community Center, Kansas City, MO.
- California: May 12, 2026 – Garré Vineyard & Winery, Livermore, CA.
- New Mexico: May 14, 2026 – Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
- Washington, D.C.: May 20, 2026 – 2:00-5:00 p.m. (2:30 start) at Southwest Library, Washington, DC.
All hearings besides Washington, DC will feature an open house/poster session from 5:00-5:30 p.m. local time, followed by the formal hearing from 5:30-8:00 p.m. The DC hearing starts 3 hours earlier than the others.
Virtual options are available for the SC and NM meetings, which are particularly important, especially for New Mexicans.
There are many ways to help prepare for these spectacles. Contact us. Hundreds of businesses, organizations, and individuals have registered their resistance to building a pit factory at LANL. Others would resist if a) they knew about what is going on and b) they knew how to stand with others. We need your help to reach them. We have defeated pit production before. Together, we can make nuclear resistance visible, and powerful.
Dear friends and colleagues --
Many of you, we know, will not be able to attend either of these workshops, which concern not just the largest nuclear warhead project since the Cold War, but also Trump's largest project in New Mexico -- though it was originally promoted by Martin Heinrich, Tom Udall, Ben Ray Lujan, and Michelle Lujan Grisham.
If you can't come, please understand that:
- If LANL is a pit factory, there will need to be two factories. If you have doubts about this, come to one of these workshops.
- For the coming critical decade, only LANL is going to make the cores of brand-new warheads for the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
- A lot of confused people want LANL to do just that, and they want you to go along with that. And that will be the outcome if too few people speak up to the contrary.
Greg Mello, for the Los Alamos Study Group
