Olive Branch Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
Did you know that Kansas City has a Nuclear Weapons Plant?
The Kansas City Plant is located in the Bannister Federal Complex near Holmes and
Bannister Road and is run by Honeywell under NNSA, the National Nuclear Security Administration. It makes over 85% of the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, averages over 5000 shipments a month of nuclear weapons parts and is having its busiest workload in 20 years even in this post-Cold War era!
read more...The Fernald Preserve and its visitors center make their public debut Wednesday at the former site of the government facility that processed uranium metal for nuclear weapons from 1952 to 1989

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Sixty-three years ago this week, the United States was the first (and last — so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two warheads in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Tens of thousands were killed instantly, and by the end of 1945 another 200,000 had died from radiation-related ailmentsread more...America’s nuclear arsenal and the policies that govern its size and contents are at a critical crossroads as the Bush Administration reaches its final months. The U.S. Energy Department and its semi-autonomous weapons division, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), have pushed hard in recent years for
the go-ahead to produce new kinds of nuclear weapons, and for expensive new facilities in which to manufacture them.read more...
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