NH #763: Anti-Nuke Activist in the Belly of the Beast: LASG’s Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Greg Mello is Executive Director and one of the founders of the Los Alamos Study Group, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The group has worked for nuclear disarmament, environmental protection, social justice, and economic sustainability, with actions including policy research, environmental analysis, congressional education and lobbying, community organizing, and litigation.
  
  Recently, Greg took himself to the belly of the beast – the DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit 2026, where front-line purveyors of nuclear weapons components, self-serving justifications, and lobbying opportunities lay plans and made alliances to grab mountains of taxpayer money while preparing the means to obliterate the world.
  
  To even walk into such an environment, Greg Mello shows himself to be a braver soul than I. We spoke on Feb. 16, 2024.

Links from the Interview:

• Link to sign up for Los Alamos Study Group email
• Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nucler Weapons on why there’s no such thing as nuclear “deterrence“ – Nuclear Hotseat #37 from August 12, 2025
• Steven Starr’s Nuclear Hotseat interview: Nukes in Space and the EMP Threat
• Steven Starr’s book: Nuclear High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse: A Mortal Threat to the U.S. Power Grid and U.S. Nuclear Power Plants – This is a non-Amazon link for purchase.

Additional Resources:

• W80-5 “just came up,” will go on SLCM-N, weapons directors say, Sarah Salem, Jan 30, 2026
• https://www.exchangemonitor.com/nnsa-no-2-committed-to-a-two-site-solution-for-pits-needs-srs-support-2/, Jan 30, 2026 (paywall)
• NNSA shifting to a “culture of urgency” and “production mindset”, Exchange Monitor, Jan 30, 2026
• With study done, Wyka says Los Alamos working with tribes, Exchange Monitor, Jan 30, 2026
• Director says LANL exceeds pit production objectives, Exchange Monitor, Jan 29, 2026 
• USAF considers modular missile silos for Sentinel, Cramer says new silos “well settled”, Exchange Monitor, Jan 28, 2026

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Linda Pentz Gunter

Nuclear nations should disarm first before telling other countries such as Iran they can’t have the bomb.