Facing reality: The future of the US nuclear weapons complex
Facing Reality is a collaboration by 15 authors from environmental and grass-roots groups. The authors bluntly conclude that whether the inertia, habit, or material interest, the nuclear weapons establishment has proven itself incapable of genuine reform.' They therefore call for government agencies other than the Department of Energy to manage the tasks of decontamination and decommissioning. Just a partial list of what needs to be done to clean up the DOE's mess is daunting: closing, decommissioning, and decontaminating production facilities, dismantling thousands of nuclear warheads, safely storing dangerous radioactive materials, identifying alternative employment for weapons specialists, conducting meaningful health studies of workers and citizens exposed to radiation, and providng compensation for the victims of the nuclear buildup.
- OSTI ID:
- 6867817
- Journal Information:
- World Watch; (United States), Vol. 6:1; Other Information: From review by Michael Renner in World Watch, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January-February 1993); ISSN 0896-0615
- Publisher:
- San Francisco, CA (United States); Tides Foundation
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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