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From left, Michael Messner, Bushrod Lake and Pam Gilchrist, all with Veterans For Peace, protest in April near a downtown building LANL plans to use for its expansion into Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Santa Fe’s relationship with Los Alamos National Laboratory has been rocky for years.
The City Council, with some regularity, has passed resolutions of concern about the nuclear weapons lab’s environmental impact and radioactive materials safety lapses, the production of weapons parts in Los Alamos and the proliferation of nuclear weapons in general.
A 2005 council resolution recognized as “immoral the notion that human security can ever be built upon instruments of mass destruction and the will to use them.” The City Council called for rejection of “all proposals to build new or expanded factories for nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons components.”