Shelley Berkley: “I have to say that I was appalled when one of the speakers said that if we passed this resolution, Nevada will be able…”

“I have to say that I was appalled when one of the speakers said that if we passed this resolution, Nevada will be able to continue its nuclear legacy. Nuclear legacy? Nevada does not have a nuclear legacy. Let me tell you what transpired in the 1950s in the State of Nevada when there were less than 100,000 people in the entire State. The Federal Government came to us and said that it was going to do above ground atomic testing of atomic bombs but that it would be perfectly safe and that you could watch it, bring your families there, work there safely. All you had to do was go home and take a shower. So thousands of people went to work at the Nevada test site. I must say I have friends that share with me the times that their parents took them up to the Nevada test site with a picnic lunch and they watched the atomic bombs going off in the Nevada atmosphere. Let me tell you what has happened to those Nevada test site workers, those brave souls who thought that they were doing their duty for their country, but safely, at the promises and assurances of the Federal Government. Those Nevada test site workers, if they are not dead, they are dying. Those people that observed those tests and watched as they ate their bologna sandwiches, they are dying, too. They are all dying of unexplained cancers.”