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When he learned about the Senate bill in May, Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) said he supported a bill introduced by two Nevada representatives in the House in June prohibiting any tax dollars from being spent on nuclear weapons testing.

McAdams said he knew it was something that the House of Representatives must put a stop to for the health and safety of Utah.

“The Senate legislation put millions of dollars to prepare for restarting nuclear testing and the House version (of the bill), thanks to my amendment, prohibits it,” McAdams said.

With the election less than a month away, McAdams said these conflicting bills don’t have a set time to be reconciled, however the nuclear weapons testing could possibly be “ready to go in a few months.”

Republican Burgess Owens, who is McAdams’ opponent in the upcoming election, has publicly said he would support the Trump administration’s preparations to resume nuclear weapons test.

McAdams said Utah has had more than a thousand nuclear bombs tested in its backyard at the Nevada Test Site from the 1950s through 1992. He further explained that the government assured the tests were safe and even encouraged people to go on family picnics to watch the nuclear weapons test.

“And what we now know is that those tests spread fallout (radioactive material) across the entire state of Utah. The government knew it at the time and lied to us, and tens of thousands of Utahns developed cancer and died as a result of those lies,” McAdams said.

He said nuclear weapons testing can result in cancer, birth defects and infertility and thousands of cases in Utah have directly corresponded to the past nuclear weapons testing. ……..   https://universe.byu.edu/2020/10/09/utah-congressmen-takes-action-to-demolish-nuclear-weapons-testing-in-u-s/