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...Government, Jenkins ruled, did not deliberately expose civilians to radioactivity in the 1950s, as some have suggested, when test bombs were being detonated almost monthly. Nonetheless, officials were negligent. When winds were blowing eastward from the test site toward the sparsely populated stretches of Utah and northern Arizona, the Government seemed unconcerned. Radiation sensors were few and often operated improperly. And officials disregarded evidence of potential hazards. Said former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs: "The tragic thing is that all this could have been prevented...
...senior drilling inspector at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, Rufus Moore usually pays scant attention to the antinuclear protesters who often appear at the perimeter of the top-secret patch of desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The 1,350-sq.-mi. site in the Nellis Range has absorbed hundreds of underground blasts as the U.S. has fine-tuned its nuclear arsenal. For Moore, 54, a cigar-chomping veteran of hundreds of such tests, nuclear deterrence and superpower peace depend on the results. "The minute we stop testing, we're in trouble," he says...
Last Thursday, however, Moore had to thread his car through the largest demonstration ever held at the test site. Nearly 2,000 people rode buses and cars into the desert to protest the first U.S. nuclear explosion of the year $ and the 25th since the Soviet Union unilaterally declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which...
...demonstration came too late. To foil the activists, the nuclear test, code-named Hazebrook, was set off Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule. The subsequent protest was not confined to Nevada. On Capitol Hill, the House Democratic caucus proposed that Congress cut off funds for further U.S. nuclear tests as long as the Soviet Union adheres to its testing moratorium. The House Democrats called on President Reagan to negotiate with the Soviets to achieve a "reciprocal, simultaneous and verifiable" test ban. The Soviets, meanwhile, announced they would soon resume testing in response to the U.S. action...
Moore, who has worked at the Nevada Test Site since 1961, views the protesters as "sincere in their feeling, but they don't understand the big picture." When he drives from his home in nearby Pahrump to the heavily guarded site, Moore enters a domain pockmarked with gaping craters, a lunar- like legacy of blasts thousands of feet underground. Many of Moore's 5,500 colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels...