The LANL SWEIS Site has suddenly moved.

The document on public record, the adoption of which remains subject to consideration of submitted public comments (prior to 20 September), outlining the National Nuclear Security Adminstration's plans to quintuple production of Plutonium pits (the "triggers" for nuclear warheads) at Los Alamos National Laboratories, is now at http://www.doeal.gov/laso/NEPASWEIS.aspx, which is absolutely NOT the URL it was located at (to which I'd previously linked) when I posted beforehand.

Assuming all is right with your browser and operating system, you *should* in theory be transferred upon clicking any previously included link to the SWEIS to that very same site. In practice, you might quite well get stuck in cyberspace forever (ah, the joys of Microsoft Windows and its OS monopoly) -- in which case, please click the above link.

We can only hope that after what I've gone through to get a printed paper copy of the document in question that it hasn't changed substantially.

Why the NNSA might suddenly have changed the URL in the middle of the limited public comment period remains far beyond my mere layman's comprehension. A mere citizen might be forgiven for suspecting that they don't really *want* the public comments in the first place, or that "public comments" might undermine the current administration's notions of what "National Security" really entails -- regardless of the wishes of the citizens of the nation whose "national security" is actually at stake.

I choose to believe otherwise. In my thinking, the NNSA has produced the LANL SWEIS in a good-faith effort precisely to encourage public comment. Let's face it -- I'm not really that important, and the NNSA surely wouldn't change the URL to a vitally important public document just knowing that little old me planned on spending a whole weekend at the 32nd Annual Santa Fe Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Festival, now would they?

Speaking of which, it was fantastic.