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TexasTowelie

(111,322 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 02:36 PM Jun 2020

President's nuclear fantasy threatens Nevadans' health, national security

Blocking President Donald Trump from nuking Nevada or dumping radioactive materials here is an unpleasant task that rears its head with annoying regularity. It’s like scraping irradiated gum off the bottom of your shoe.

So here’s a show of respect and gratitude to Nevadans who are safeguarding the state.

That includes Rep. Dina Titus, who last week introduced a bill aimed at stopping Trump from conducting nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada National Security Site. Titus and Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford, who co-sponsored the bill, jumped into action after The Washington Post reported this month that senior officials in the Trump administration had dusted off the idea of live testing, an insane plan that had first been reported in 2018 but then seemingly vanished.

The bill would circumvent testing by denying federal funding for it. As Titus explained, targeting the funding was the most effective approach due to the Trump administration’s opposition to ratifying an international nuclear testing ban that was adopted by the United Nations but remains unratified by the U.S. and seven other countries — China, Iran, Israel, Egypt, India, Pakistan and North Korea.

Read more: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/22/presidents-nuclear-fantasy-threatens-nevadans-heal/

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President's nuclear fantasy threatens Nevadans' health, national security (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2020 OP
Interesting Stupid idea. Wellstone ruled Jun 2020 #1
I know, let's sell tickets to the viewing to MAGAts as a way for them to see how great we are. ffr Jun 2020 #2
Why doesn't tRUMP hold nykym Jun 2020 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Interesting Stupid idea.
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 02:54 PM
Jun 2020

All one needs to know is,read about the Down Winders of Nevada,Utah,Idaho as well as Arizona. The Radiation Plume does not stay localized one damn bit.

Several of the Underground Tests have gone rouge and launched Radiation into the Jet Stream and these particulates have been found in soil samples in the midwest and Canada.

The last Test at the Mercury Nevada site was a rouge,and it spread Radiation within minutes across Southern Utah to Wyoming .

ffr

(22,649 posts)
2. I know, let's sell tickets to the viewing to MAGAts as a way for them to see how great we are.
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 03:22 PM
Jun 2020


The parade of dunces that gave us this Grifter needs to have their day in the light.

nykym

(3,063 posts)
3. Why doesn't tRUMP hold
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 04:14 PM
Jun 2020

a rally there so he and all his supporters can revel in the nuclear plume of the explosion.
It may well render him a permanent orange glow.

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