Los Alamos - To Share in Billion for Nuclear Weapons

The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed a billion-dollar hike for the nuclear weapons program, with significant increases for New Mexico's nuclear weapons laboratories. In a joint announcement, New Mexico's two Democratic Senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, called the result good news for the state. "The spending bill working its way through the Senate gives unprecedented support to Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories," Bingaman said. "President Obama has plans to shrink our stockpile deterrent, and that means the stockpile stewardship programs at our two labs will be more important than ever." Read more:

Los Alamos - To Share in Billion for Nuclear Weapons