CITIZEN ALERT v1.226NO MORE NUKES

Again with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) today - I love these guys. They have started a petition for you to ask your Senators to vote against Reliable Replacement Warheads (RRW). These are new nuclear weapons, first reported to be REPLACING our older ones, but here's some tidbits from the FAS on that:

· The RRW will not be significantly more reliable than current warheads. Current nuclear weapons are at worst 98% reliable and will continue in this state for the next 30-40 years. The warheads sit atop missiles that are reckoned to be about 90% or so reliable, which swamps the unreliability of the warheads themselves

· The RRW is not a “replacement.” Current plans call for using the RRW along with, not instead of, the current W-76.

· The RRW will not save money, especially because existing warhead types are not going to be retired but retained for decades.

· The real objective of the RRW is to maintain a nuclear weapons manufacturing base, forever. The Department of Energy, no matter how far into the future it looks, cannot envision an America without thousands of nuclear weapons (The US nuclear stockpile is currently 10,000 warheads).

SIGN PETITION HERE:
www.fas.org/cwp

READ THE FAS FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.fas.org/efas/RRW.html