Now that those pesky elections are out of the way, Divine Strake is ramping up again for execution as early as this spring on the Nevada Test Range. My objection to Divine Strake sources not as much from the potential of more lethal toxins being kicked into the atmosphere, but the fact that we’re developing new nuclear weapons at all. The Defense Department doesn’t seem to realize that bunker busters have little effect on insurgents using cellphones and fertilizer to make roadside bombs. The nature of war has changed, but we’re still dumping borrowed cash into schoolboy efforts to see how big of a boom we can make in the desert.
The “Great Stopper” has not weighed in on the new timetable for Divine Strake. Make sure you let him know how you feel about the military messing around in the desert while there are still troops lacking armor in the field.
The Orwellian “Defense Threat Reduction Agency” is holding a series of public meetings on Divine Strake:
- Jan. 9 6:30-9:00 p.m., Defense Threat Reduction Agency and National Nuclear Security Administration, public meeting on the proposed “Divine Strake” nuclear simulation to be conducted at the Nevada Test Site. Cashman Convention Center, 850 N. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV
- Jan. 10 6:30-9:00 p.m., Defense Threat Reduction Agency and National Nuclear Security Administration, public meeting on the proposed “Divine Strake” nuclear simulation to be conducted at the Nevada Test Site. Energy Solutions Arena, 310 W. South Temple St., Salt Lake City, UT
- Jan. 11 6:30-9:00 p.m., Defense Threat Reduction Agency and National Nuclear Security Administration, public meeting on the proposed “Divine Strake” nuclear simulation to be conducted at the Nevada Test Site. Dixie Center, 1835 Convention Center Dr., St. George, UT
Thank you for the info, Pete, as well as the timetable and link to sound off to Borrin Orrin. Here’s the email I just sent:
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As you well know, in a week the “Divine Strake” project will come up again for public debate. I want to know how it is the US military industrial complex can propose to spend millions of dollars on creating and testing new and worthless nuclear bunker busters that will have little to zero effect on terrorists or insurgents who now use cellphones to make roadside bombs or plan attacks in rural cities. Bunker busters might have (arguably) been useful 15 years ago in the first Bush middle east debacle, but it’s impossible to deny that the nature of war has changed yet again. G.W. himself constantly reminds us that war has changed. And yet we’re still dumping money our country doesn’t have into nuclear toys and boondoggles like this, so that the generals and executives can line their pockets with profit.
Why haven’t you taken a firm stand against Divine Strake? Why would you ever consider supporting it, as a supposed fiscal conservative? It leaves us all drawing conclusions about who else’s pockets are being lined…
Pete,
It’s good to see you blogging again! Keep it coming!
Divine Strake is a great example of history horrifically repeating itself, within the lifetimes of many harmed by the first testings.
I’ll be there at the Energy Solutions Arena. Thanks for posting the times, I had only been able to confirm the date up till now. 🙂
Thanks for the info. I will be at the Las Vegas meeting. I have sent a link to Randi Rhodes at Air America Radio. Hope she gets the workd out nationally for this