2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 4 Aug 2006 08:08:04 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] "Divine Strake" explosion delayed
 
Explosion delayed until sometime in '07

By Kathy Helms
Gallup Independent (NM)
August 2, 2006

WINDOW ROCK - U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-2nd District, applauded an announcement Tuesday by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency that the Divine Strake non-nuclear explosion planned at Nevada Test Site could not be conducted until several months into 2007 at the earliest.

The Divine Strake non-nuclear explosion is planned for Nevada Test Site where atomic testing was conducted largely in the 1950s and 1960s, thus raising health concerns that residual contamination could be disturbed and redeposited downwind by new testing, whether nuclear or non-nuclear.

Reservations populated by Navajo, Hopi and Zuni tribes were not immune to radioactive fallout from the atomic tests, which basically blanketed the United States. However, to date, few tribal members have been compensated by the federal government as "downwinders."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gallupindependent.com/2006/aug/080206explsn.html

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