This episode I talk with Ralph Hutchinsonwho is the coordinator ofThe Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. OREPA is committed to nonviolence and believes in using every tool in the toolbox. Their main focus is stopping nuclear weapons production at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and protecting the environment threatened by legacy and ongoing activities at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Reservation. We discuss background on Y12 and Oak Ridge, the dangers of nuclear weapons productions, the environmental impacts of the nuclear weapon chain, how we are in a new nuclear arms race, getting to the base of why these nuclear weapons are being invested in and made, and then what you can do to get involved.
Contact and connect with Ralph: orep@earthlink.net or https://orepa.org/
Register or learn more about Stop The New Nuclear Arms Race event: https://orepa.org/stop-the-new-nuclear-arms-race-registration-open/
President Trump’s 2020 Budget for Uranium Processing Facilities: https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/budget
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/us/politics/trump-budget-nuclear-missiles.html
Universities who are investing or engaging in nuclear weapons: https://www.icanw.org/us_universities_are_complicit_in_nuclear_weapons_production_new_ican_report_reveals
Articles on the dangers of Nuclear Weapons: https://futureoflife.org/background/the-risk-of-nuclear-weapons/?cn-reloaded=1
https://www.nap.edu/read/11282/chapter/8#77
Background Music Credits:
https://www.youtube.com/c/mbbmusic
