New Nuclear Danger

(Kings Bay and Bangor together house the sixteen Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines that carry the Trident I C-4 and the Trident II D-5 missiles, now with a renewed service life of up to 44 years. These submarines carry 384 missiles with up to 2,880 operational warheads, altogether comprising about half of U.S. nuclear weapons.)

2. AIR FORCE WEAPONS

Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Las Vegas, Nevada

Whiteman AFB, Knob Knoster, Missouri

Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, Louisiana

Minot AFB, Minot , North Dakota (has 150 Minuteman III missiles (up to three warheads) in silo field)

Malstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana (has 200 Minuteman III missiles (max. three warheads) in silo field as well as storing old ICBMs)

F. E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming (has approximately 200 missiles—150 Minuteman III’s (one warhead each) and 50 MX—in silo field shared with Colorado and Nebraska. All MX missiles will be deactivated in stages by 2005, but will be kept for redeployment or for space launch vehicles, and their silos will be retained.)

Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Notes: 107 missiles of the missiles noted above are kept as spares, and for testing and replacement. Minuteman IIIs are being upgraded as part of a 6-billion-dollar program to prolong their service beyond 2020. Minuteman IVs may be developed starting in 2004.

3. U.S. NUCLEAR WARHEADS OVERSEAS

There are approximately 150 B61 U.S. tactical nuclear bombs on nine NATO bases in Europe.

“The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Complex,” at www.brook.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/sites.htm (updated August 2002) and “Bombs in the Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions,” at www.brook.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/basesize.htm (updated August 2002).

4. GLOBAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS

The locations of all nuclear weapons worldwide (as of 2002), including Russian, Chinese, British, French, Indian, and Pakistani weapons, can be viewed at www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datainx.asp.

Sources: Center for Defense Information; Nukewatch; Stephen Schwartz, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Natural Resources Defense Council; Quick-silver, the Brookings Institution and Bill Sulzman

5. STORAGE SITES FOR NUCLEAR-WEAPONS MATERIALS

Storage location for a large amount of material recovered from weapons disassembled since 1992 in the form of so-called nuclear pits (triggers).

Department of Energy

Westinghouse Savannah River Company Site

Aiken, South Carolina

(803) 725-6211; (803) 725-3011

Storage location for disassembled secondaries for thermonuclear weapons. Has produced nuclear materials since 1951.

Source: Center for Defense Information

6. KEY MISSILE DEFENSE TESTING AND RESEARCH SITES

U.S. Army Strategic Space and Missile Defense Command

Huntsville, AL 35807

(256) 955-5369; (256) 876-2151

www.redstone.army.mil

See more information under “Boeing” in the nuclear-weapons-company list.

Joint National Test Facility

Schriever AFB, CO 80912-7300

http://www.jntf.osd.mil/

jntf.info@jntf.osd.mil

Along with Redstone, a major missile defense test facility. According to their web site, “The primary project currently hosted by the JNTF-DC is Wargame 2000, a real-time, interactive, discrete event, command-and-control missile defense simulation. Wargame 2000 is intended to provide a simulated combat environment that will allow war-fighting commanders, their staffs, and the acquisition community to examine missile and air defense concepts of operation (CONOPS).” Operated by TRW in collaboration with Boeing.

Vandenberg Air Force Base

Visitor Center, Building Number 1796

Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437

On Highway 1, 55 miles north of Santa Barbara, CA

A “launch site” for missile defense tests. See http://mocc.vafb.af.mil/launchsched.asp for the nuclear-weapons test schedule. Its website boldly proclaims that ruling space, “the ultimate high ground,” will allow the U.S. to dominate all battlegrounds.

Space Command Headquarters

Peterson Air Force Base

Directorate of Public Affairs

Headquarters, U.S. Space Command

250 S. Peterson Blvd, Suite 116

Peterson AFB, CO 80914-3190

www.cheyennemountain.af.mi

See more information in the nuclear weapons control center list.

Patrick Air Force Base/Cape Canaveral

1201 Edward H. White II Street

Patrick AFB, FL 32925

Located south of Cocoa Beach, Florida

The Cape physically tests the missiles and Patrick administers/directs them.

Los Angeles Air Force Base

The Space and Missile Systems Center Office of Public Affairs

2420 Vela Way Suite 1467

El Segundo, CA 90245

www.losangeles.af.mil

Directs the space-based laser program.

Kirtland Air Force Base

1680 Texas Street SE

Kirtland AFB, NM 87117

(505) 846-0011 (operator)

(505) 846-5500 (Defense Threat Reduction Agency)

Home to the Defense Nuclear Weapons School and The Nuclear Weapons Product Support Center.

NASA Stennis Space Center

Stennis Space Center, MI 39529 (800) 237-1821

Testing for missile defense conducted by Lockheed.

Note: Fort Greely and Kodiak Island in Alaska are slated to be part of a vast Pacific “test bed” meant to allow for more realistic intercept tests. At present, the only integrated tests of interceptors designed to shoot down long-range missiles are launched from a U.S. test range in the Kwajalein Atoll of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (the Reagan Test Site). Thule, Greenland is the site of a radar station that will be retrofitted if the missile defense program goes ahead. (Denmark, which controls Greenland, will have to permit the upgrade.) Shemya Island in the Alaskan Aleutians is the location for a proposed missile-defense battle-management radar station and 100 interceptors. Radar in the U.S. (including at Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Beale Air Force

Base, California) and Great Britain are scheduled for Star Wars upgrades. The Pine Gap CIA base in Australia may become a key site for missile-defense activity.

1. NAVAL WEAPONS

2. AIR FORCE WEAPONS

3. U.S. NUCLEAR WARHEADS OVERSEAS

4. GLOBAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS

5. STORAGE SITES FOR NUCLEAR-WEAPONS MATERIALS

6. KEY MISSILE DEFENSE TESTING AND RESEARCH SITES