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Utah to suffer again the fallout from nuclear weapons testing?

there simply is no military requirement for new nuclear weapons capabilities that might require the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing.

Nuclear Weapons Testing is Back on the Table in Utah, Blog for Iowa, Editor’s Note, 6 Aug 2010, Nuclear weapons testing is back on the election agenda in Utah, the reddest of red states, home of many “downwinders” who suffered cancer from the fallout of our previous regime of nuclear weapons testing in Nevada.

It is not too much for conservatives to say that we may need to test again to develop a next generation of nuclear weapons. While others seek nuclear disarmament, in Utah it is a whole ‘nother ball game.

What this discussion fails to note is there simply is no military requirement for new nuclear weapons capabilities that might require the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing. The U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories do not need nuclear explosive testing to maintain the effectiveness of the existing U.S. nuclear arsenal.

The U.S. already has the most sophisticated and deadly nuclear arsenal in the world. Given this advantage, it is clearly in U.S. national security interests to prevent other nations from testing nuclear weapons which the test ban treaty would facilitate).

Blog for Iowa :: Nuclear Weapons Testing is Back on the Table in Utah

August 7, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive