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Ban nuclear testing

Salt Lake Tribune

One needs only glance at a few headlines to discover that the dominant political idea in Utah these days is fight the federal government. Keep them from harming Utahns.

This lens is usually applied to issues such as federal lands or health-care policy. I would like to see it applied to a different issue: whether the U.S. should permanently end nuclear weapons testing.

Ratify nuclear treaty

Deseret News

Trisha Beck in her My View, "No need for nuclear testing any longer" (April 11), spoke to the two critical reasons the United States should ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and why it has significant value for the residents of Utah and the country.

No need for nuclear weapons testing any longer

Deseret News

Recently, the National Academy of the Sciences released a new report that may close the door on a tragic, 60-year chapter of Utah's history. The report, a review of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, found that there's absolutely no need for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing.

That news from Washington resonates the most here in Utah, where thousands of residents were made sick by past nuclear weapons testing in Nevada.

County commemorates downwinders and uranium workers

The Moab Times Independent

 Miners, millers and haulers living in Grand County and negatively affected by Nevada nuclear weapons testing between 1951 and 1962 were added to a Grand County Council resolution marking Jan. 27 as a day of commemoration for downwinders affected by the testing. 

Honor downwinders and uranium workers and millers…

The Moab Times Independent

I think there was some confusion about the proposal at last weeks Grand County Council meeting regarding support for a resolution regarding support for “downwinders” – the name given to those who were exposed to radiation from atomic testing – and uranium workers who were exposed to radiation because of the U.S. atomic weapons program. The proposed resolution called for the council to join with the U.S.