RE: Stop Complex 2030

Dear Representative ,

I am deeply disturbed that the administration has proposed spending an estimated $5 to $10 billion on a facility to build the next generation of nuclear weapons. The Government Accounting Office, which provides official oversight to Congress, quotes the National Nuclear Security Administration estimate of the total cost of Complex 2030 at over $150 billion. American taxpayer dollars should not be spent creating the most terrible weapons of mass destruction known to humanity. I strongly oppose this new nuclear weapons facility, and I urge you to do whatever it takes block the administration's proposals for Complex 2030.

The proposed facility would have the capacity to build 125 to 200 plutonium “triggers” or pits for nuclear weapons annually. Plutonium pits are an essential component of modern nuclear warheads. The new plutonium pit production facility is a key element of what the administration is calling Complex 2030, a comprehensive plan to update, reorganize, and rebuild the nuclear weapons complex.

The U.S. government has a moral and legal obligation to eliminate its nuclear weapons, yet this proposal would indefinitely sustain our ability to build new nuclear weapons. It has taken years to create and strengthen the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The Complex 2030 proposal continues this administration’s pattern of undermining these international nonproliferation structures and agreements. At a time when the U.S. government is demanding other countries adhere to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, the U.S. government is not meeting its own obligations to pursue nuclear disarmament “in good faith.” As Representative Ed Markey (MA) said, “America cannot preach nuclear temperance from a barstool.”

The administration claims that Complex 2030 is needed to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal. However, the United States government has the capability to decommission its nuclear warheads without the construction of a new facility that actually enables greater warhead production.

Complex 2030 poses a grave threat to our environment and to humanity’s survival. Please work to ensure this terrible proposal is cancelled, and that the United States take the lead in stopping nuclear proliferation by living up to our treaty obligations to reduce and eventually eliminate our own nuclear weapons stockpile.

Sincerely,

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