President's nuclear fantasy threatens Nevadans' health, national security
Blocking President Donald Trump from nuking Nevada or dumping radioactive materials here is an unpleasant task that rears its head with annoying regularity. It’s like scraping irradiated gum off the bottom of your shoe.
So here’s a show of respect and gratitude to Nevadans who are safeguarding the state.
That includes Rep. Dina Titus, who last week introduced a bill aimed at stopping Trump from conducting nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada National Security Site. Titus and Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford, who co-sponsored the bill, jumped into action after The Washington Post reported this month that senior officials in the Trump administration had dusted off the idea of live testing, an insane plan that had first been reported in 2018 but then seemingly vanished.
The bill would circumvent testing by denying federal funding for it. As Titus explained, targeting the funding was the most effective approach due to the Trump administration’s opposition to ratifying an international nuclear testing ban that was adopted by the United Nations but remains unratified by the U.S. and seven other countries — China, Iran, Israel, Egypt, India, Pakistan and North Korea.
Read more: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/22/presidents-nuclear-fantasy-threatens-nevadans-heal/
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The parade of dunces that gave us this Grifter needs to have their day in the light.