ANA Letter to Congress, Re: Preventing FY2021 Funding to More Quickly Detonate a Nuclear Test

See the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) letter, regarding Fiscal Year 2021 funding to more quickly detonate a nuclear weapons test, addressed to Congressional Chairs and Ranking Members of Armed Services Committees, and Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittees, here.

See the ANA press release, here.

Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear, said: "The Nevada National Security Site, where more than 924 full-scale nuclear weapons test blasts were conducted between 1951 and 1992, is Western Shoshone Indian land. The U.S. government acknowledged this when it signed the 1863 'peace and friendship' Treaty of Ruby Valley. Resuming nuclear weapons testing in Newe Sogobia, the Western Shoshone's homeland, would further violate the treaty, which is the highest law in the land, equal in stature to the U.S. Constitution itself."

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability represents three-dozen local and national organizations addressing policy, safety and cleanup issues across the nuclear weapons complex. Member groups live and work around sites in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.

Beyond Nuclear is an ANA member group.