Thank you for this email, and especially for recommending the special issue of Scientific American of "The 'Unfathomable Risks' of the New U.S. Nuclear Build-up". I read one of the 3 stories in that last night -- **"Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of"** -- at 3 AM and it was like reading horrifying science fiction! The nuclear waste in New Mexico! The insane COST of a project to make machines that can NEVER be used! The 100 young men in missile silos getting cancer! The plume of radiation reaching the aquifer!
I was born 90 miles from the Trinity test ground zero, 8 years later, and I probably still have isotopes from that in my blood, but to start a NEW nuclear weapons program in New Mexico?!
Starting during the Clinton administration, Americans lost the last dregs of their sovereignty, and now the working-class (and upper-middle-class and even the wealthy) Americans are being colonized by billionaire psychopaths just like any pathetic country America has broken and exploited in the Global South. In New Mexico, our government is making this painfully obvious for anybody with a functioning brain.
Post WW2, there was a USE for a huge, free, successful middle class, which enticed other countries to allow USA to become the world hegemon. Now that this has been achieved (militarily but in no other way), there is no use for us. We the People are now We the Colony.
Thank you for this email, and especially for recommending the special issue of Scientific American of "The 'Unfathomable Risks' of the New U.S. Nuclear Build-up". I read one of the 3 stories in that last night -- **"Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of"** -- at 3 AM and it was like reading horrifying science fiction! The nuclear waste in New Mexico! The insane COST of a project to make machines that can NEVER be used! The 100 young men in missile silos getting cancer! The plume of radiation reaching the aquifer!
I was born 90 miles from the Trinity test ground zero, 8 years later, and I probably still have isotopes from that in my blood, but to start a NEW nuclear weapons program in New Mexico?!
Starting during the Clinton administration, Americans lost the last dregs of their sovereignty, and now the working-class (and upper-middle-class and even the wealthy) Americans are being colonized by billionaire psychopaths just like any pathetic country America has broken and exploited in the Global South. In New Mexico, our government is making this painfully obvious for anybody with a functioning brain.
Post WW2, there was a USE for a huge, free, successful middle class, which enticed other countries to allow USA to become the world hegemon. Now that this has been achieved (militarily but in no other way), there is no use for us. We the People are now We the Colony.