Wednesday, August 17, 2005
The Yucca Mountain plan, aka "Screw Nevada" bill
"Once nuclear testing went underground in 1963, and American babies stopped having fallout-induced radioactive milk teeth, Nevada fell off the map even as the nuke-a-month program continued unimpeded for almost three more decades."
In an article off Tom Dispatch, Rebecca Solnit links the war in Iraq to the struggle in Neveda, where bombs were tested and spent fuel rods were headed. But the article is mostly about water, gold mining and the Western Shoshone people, who've recently been offered $30,000 each for their chunk of Nevada when Bush signed the Western Shoshone Distribution Bill on July 7, 2004.
In an article off Tom Dispatch, Rebecca Solnit links the war in Iraq to the struggle in Neveda, where bombs were tested and spent fuel rods were headed. But the article is mostly about water, gold mining and the Western Shoshone people, who've recently been offered $30,000 each for their chunk of Nevada when Bush signed the Western Shoshone Distribution Bill on July 7, 2004.
# posted by Eric Klein @ 8/17/2005 03:25:00 PM 
