Nevada Test Site

Click on the map to see information about that area NTS Area Map - Where is: Central Nevada Test Area & Project Shoal site ? Area 13 ? Area 21 ? Area 24 ? Area 28 ? Area 51 ?

Peace Camp -- Located across Highway 95 from the Nevada Test Site. This area of reclaimed Westen Shoshone land has been the site of Peace Camps and Protests. These are just a few of the protests that occurred at the Nevada Test Site

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2002

History of NTS resistance & relationships with Nye County, DoE & Abolitionists: 1977-1990

October

• View Photo Albums from Action For Nuclear Abolition
• ACLU protests eight anti-nuclear arrests
• Mercury Uprising: A photo essay from the front lines of the Action For Nuclear Abolition Summit
• Protests at Nevada Test Site yield charges against 66
• NEVADA TEST SITE: Minorities join nuclear foes
• Activists walk 800 miles to end nuclear grip on Southwest
• Family Spirit Walkers in Las Vegas Photos
• Family Spirit Walk arrives in Las Vegas
• Journey of Protest

May Runners protest nuclear toll Spirit Runners encircle sacred test site ground Map shows Shoshone protest route Mothers hold nuke protest at NTS Crossing the line

March

• Archaeologists studying camp where anti-nuclear activists staged protests

2001

• Police arrest 28 protesters at test site
• 49 arrested at NDE Lenten action at the Nevada Test Site
• Seven people were charged with trespassing
• Listen to the Archive Gathering Recordings (mp.3's)
• Newene Sogobi Mava'a Mia : Western Shoshone Walk On the Sacred Land
• A time for peace 5 arrested at Nevada Test Site protesting "Oboe" 8
• Subcritical nuclear experiment carried out at test facility
• Shundahai Network Press Release about Oboe 8 nuclear weapons test

2000

• Nevada Test Site Peacemakers Ring In New Millennium
• Millenium at the Nevada Test Site
• A Witch in the Desert
• Test site a magnet for antinuclear demonstrations
• Shundahai Activist Sentenced to 30 days & $450 fine for "Oboe 3" Direct Action

  • Nuclear prisoner plans to help Nye County anyway
  • A question of trespass
• Thoroughbred Nuclear Test draws 6 arrests
• Oboe 4 Nuke Test Direct Action
• Oboe 3 Nuke Weapons Test Action 9 arrested

1999

• Antinuclear groups protest Nuclear Test "Oboe 2" with arrests at test site, demo at Federal building and Fremont Street

1998

• 1998: Western Shoshone and Supporters Occupy the Nevada Test Site
• April 13, 1998: Western Shoshone and Supporters Occupy the Nevada Test Site
• September 28rh: Subcritical Nuclear Test "Bagpipe"
• Healing Global Wounds: A personal account
• Protesters: Test site violates land
• 250 turn out for final day of nuclear protest
• Some of our Photos of the occupation
• Anti-nuclear activists leave Nevada Test Site

1997

• Holog Subcritical Nuclear Weapons Test Action and Court
• Rebound Subcritical Nuclear Weapon Test Action and Court and Photos
• US 95 Highway Blockade and Action for Nuclear Abolition Spring '97 Week of Actions and Court and Photos

Action For Nuclear Abolition 1996

10 arrested in protest against nuclear testing

• Soviets suspend nuclear testing at Kazakhstan, Meanwhile, in the US on Saturday 31 March, about 1,600 people participated in the annual peace demonstration at the Nevada nuclear weapons test site. Police arrested 871 people and charged them with trespass.
• A new Soviet antinuclear group called Nevada--a name chosen to attract the attention of U.S. antinuclear activists- has had an impressive first year

The 1989 NEVADA PEACE RIDE

Protesting at the Nuclear Test Site, Mercury, Nevada, c. 1987

 1986

Four teams of Greenpeace activists infiltrate the Nevada Test Site and succeed in delaying the "MIGHTY OAK" nuclear tests for two days.

The Mighty Oak (which was the failed nuclear test in Nevada at the same time as Chernobyl) accident, according to James K. Magruder, assistant manager for operations for DOE at NTS, was due to rock beneath Rainier Mesa caving in from the shock of the nuclear blast. (New York Times, 2/17/89.)

The 1986 underground test Mighty Oak leaked and vented into the atmosphere for many days before it was detected by outside monitoring. It took the Energy Department more than three weeks to finally admit the truth.

DOE has since made changes in testing barriers and procedures at Rainier Mesa, which have added $9 million to the cost of each test.

1986-1993 (Greenpeace History)

Greenpeace activists participate in annual protests at the Nevada Test Site involving 3,000 to 9,000 people that maintain public awareness of nuclear testing and the continuing nuclear arms race. In 1988 alone, over 14,000 people attend two demonstrations at the test site with over 4,000 people arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. In 1987, the Greenpeace balloon Trinity sailed into the test site.

Record Number of Arrests in 1989 for Anti-Nuclear Protest

Photo Album of the First NTS Peace Camp site (west of present camp) established by Art Casey in 1986 during Lent when he vigil daily at the gates to the Nevada Test Site.

HISTORY of the CAMPAIGN to END NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING at the NEVADA TEST SITE
1977-1990 (Nevada Desert Experience)

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