- Stop Divine Strake 2007 -

Here We Go, Again!

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has again announced plans to detonate a 700-pound test at the Nevada Test Site: Divine Strake Part II.

The DTRA completed a revised Environmental Assessment (EA) http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/environmental.aspx in the middle of the holiday season and are ready to "drop the bomb." This revised assesment ignores Governor Guinn's request for a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the valid concerns many people have regarding the safety of the test.

We want to stop this test – because it will kick-up radioactive fallout from the Test Site floor, because it will help to develop a nuclear bunker-buster that will support more warmaking, and because it violates Western Shoshone http://www.shundahai.org/divinestrakecomments.htm land rights.

The DTRA is holding "open houses" in select cities rather than having public hearings, contrary to what they told our elected officials last spring they would do.

This Tuesday you can help.

Join us for a Press Conference at Cashman Center before the DTRA open house. Bob Hager, the attorney from Reno who is representing some members of the Western Shoshone and Utah downwinders will be on hand to talk about his case in Federal Court. We will be video taping your comments and will submit them to the agency.

After the press conference, stay for the DTRA open house, ask questions, and submit your comments in writing. Let your voice be heard!

Date: January 9, 2007

Time: 5:30 pm (Press Conference), 6:30 – 9:00 pm (DTRA open house)

Location: Cashman Convention Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd North, Las Vegas, NV 89101

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The lack of respect and concern that our federal agencies are exhibiting compares to the heyday of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, when they assured us it was perfectly safe. It wasn't and it Divine Strake isn't!

After Tuesday we will be planning a follow-up educational community forum on Divine Strake and an organizing/strategy meeting. Please let us know if you are interested! For questions please contact NDE at (702) 646-4814.

Many thanks,
Nevada Desert Experience
Citizen Alert - http://www.citizenalert.org
The National Anti-Divine Strake Coalition

If you are not able to attend, you can submit your comments via these methods:

Due by 1/24/07

Mail:
NNSA/NSO
Divine Strake EA Comments
PO Box 98518
Las Vegas, NV 89193-8518

E-Mail:
divinestrake@nv.doe.gov

Fax:
702-295-0625

http://www.nevadadesertexperience.org/issues/2007/stopdivinestrake2007.htm

Nevada should work to reduce the Federal Government occupation of Nevada. The Feds use our State for war games that are directly responsible for the deaths of many innocent people.
Divine Strake has no legitimate purpose. The information that might be obtained from such a test could easily and completely be computer modeled. There is no reason to do the test. It is a simple math question to properly size a tactical nuke for an attempted bunker bust.
Another simple question: Why the fuck do we need our Government using tactical nukes in the first place? We don't.

This test promises further injury to down-winders.

Attention US Government: Get the FUCK out of Nevada and take your fucking war toys with you back to WASHINGTON.

The citizens of the US need to cut this fucking war machine budget.

NO MORE WAR MACHINE.

Did you know that fallout is present everywhere in our living environment?

A U.S. government study, ordered by Congress in 1998 and released in 2002 stated: "Any person living in the contiguous United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout and all organs and tissues of the body have received some radiation exposure."

Gov. Huntsman Plans Hearing On Divine Strake SALT LAKE CITY Utah Gov. John Huntsman has directed the state’s environmental quality office to hold two public hearings on the proposed non-nuclear explosion planned for the Nevada Test Site near Las Vegas.

The 700-ton “Divine Strake” blast has raised concerns about the possible release of radioactive debris from Cold-War era nuclear tests at the site. The blast will send a 10,000-foot mushroom-shaped dust cloud over the Nevada desert.

In late January 2007, based on public review of its environmental analysis, the Pentagon agency will make a decision to go down one of two paths: either go ahead with the test scheduled for mid-2007 or complete a full Environmental Impact Statement. That Environmental Impact Statement is the only way to ensure the safety to ourselves and our children. Please visit our action steps page http://www.stopdivinestrake.com/index3.html to learn about how you can help stop Divine Strake.

Thanks for your efforts to stop this outrage that sends shudders up our spines. You're like David throwing rocks at Goliath.

Not only do we in Nevada and Utah have to be worried about the radioactive materials this test will put into the atmosphere, but the purpose of this test is develop new nuclear weapon technology which the pentagon and Bush regime beleive they can use against a country like Iran. Developing new nuclear weapons is in direct violation of the nuclear non proliferation treaty.
The Bush regime believes it can develop a low yield nuke to use against underground hardened bunkers in "conventional" wars with the most likely targets being Iran and North Korea.

The US has no reason to develop new nuclear weapons except for use against another perceived threat in Bush's mind. Development of these weapons shows the world that America is not to be trusted.

Divine Strake must be stopped and the people need to let Congress know developing new nuclears weapons at the expense of the Nevada and downwinder's Utah environment is unacceptable.