Nevada Nuclear tests might resume

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"New projects planned for the Nevada Test Site are raising concern that
nuclear bomb testing may resume there.


Local and national military watchdogs say all indications are that
President Bush, if re-elected, would begin testing some types of nuclear
weapons before the end of the decade at the NTS, located about 65 miles
northwest of Las Vegas and upwind of Utah.


"You put all the pieces of the puzzle together," said Steve Erickson,
director of the local Citizens Education Project, "and it leads to the
conclusion that yes, we may very well be on the road to a resumption of
nuclear testing."


Those concerns had Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, trying to amend the annual
Defense Authorization Act this week to require clear permission from
Congress before such testing could resume. The GOP-controlled Rules
Committee blocked consideration of it."

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