"No family should have to endure the suffering and loss that mine has.  My wife Kerri was born in July of 1962 in Las Vegas in the middle of four nuclear test that month.  She passed away in 2014 from cancer, after being diagnosed nine times with cancer starting in 2000. Sadly, that was after my son John died in 2004 from cancer as well.  For the safety of Nevadans and our environment, there is no reason to restart below ground detonation of nuclear devices." 

Dr. Klacking

"Resuming explosive nuclear testing in Nevada could cause serious damage to the state’s economy and risk the health and wellbeing of our workforce. Earthquake-like tremors, more nuclear material on our roads, and the risk of a radioactive incident could dampen investment and threaten our real estate and tourism sectors. In today’s competitive world, we should all be proud that Nevada is a hub for innovation. We can’t reverse course with a return to dangerous, unnecessary nuclear testing."

Peter Guzman, President of the Latin Chamber of Commerce

"Roughly 50,000 people lived in Clark County when the military first picked the test site for detonating nuclear weapons. We’re 2.3 million today. The risks posed to Nevadans are too great, which is why I am opposed to any resumption of nuclear testing."

Sandra Jauregui, Nevada Assembly Majority Leader

"Detonating nuclear weapons underground has already contaminated groundwater. The threats posed to the environment including to our state’s scarce water resources are far too great."

Kristee Watson, Executive Director of the Nevada Conservation League

"Resuming explosive nuclear testing in Nevada will set off a diplomatic chain reaction that will damage our national security and international standing."

Ernest J. Moniz, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy

"The communities of Nevada's Amargosa River watershed have for decades lived in fear of potential contamination of precious groundwater resulting from past nuclear weapons testing at the nearby test site. These frontline rural communities and the unique and irreplaceable diversity of rare plants and wildlife found only in this desert watershed deserve a future free of this threat. The Amargosa River is simply too fragile and special to risk losing to nuclear contamination."

Mason Voehl, Executive Director of Amargosa Conservancy

“My family and I, along with thousands of other Southern Nevadans, watched the atomic testing from our front yards. Little did we know that in the months and years ahead, many of us would fall ill from cancer and other diseases, and some of us would not make it. After many decades, the government has finally acknowledged responsibility, but compensation has been limited, leaving too many to cope with illnesses without help from the government. Accidents from resumed nuclear testing could threaten the health and safety of Nevadans, adding to the long list of victims of radiation exposure who are told that the funds for restoring their health, their very lives, is simply not in the budget.”

Linda Chase, Nevada Downwinder

"When I was a Nye County Commissioner, one of our primary concerns was the groundwater quality of the Beatty, Amargosa Valley, and Pahrump communities because of migrating radionuclides through multi-fractured rock as a result of underground nuclear testing.  No one should ever have to live in a community they love with the threat of being poisoned by their own water supply." 

Joni Eastley, Former Nye County Commisioner