Demos zero in on nuke testing
by Thomas Burr

The Salt Lake Tribune    Translate This Article
23 February 2004



During a brief stop in Salt Lake City two days before the Utah Democratic primary, presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich vowed that if elected he would stop any nuclear tests and work to rid the world of atomic weapons.

Calling Tuesday's party-run election a referendum on nuclear testing, Kucinich asked voters to check his name to show Utahns oppose tests in the adjacent Nevada desert. Past tests and their fallout have been blamed for cancer throughout the region.

'I want the people of Utah to know that as president of the United States, I will bring an end to all the nuclear testing,' Kucinich said Sunday during a rally at Salt Lake City International Airport. 'We will stop the sacrifice of the health and the welfare of the people of Utah and every other state [who] would be affected by the testing of nuclear weapons. This must stop.' . . .

During a telephone news conference earlier Sunday, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic front-runner, said he also opposed the resumption of nuclear tests, as proposed by the Bush administration. Kerry said computers could be used for further simulations.

'I have consistently been opposed to the testing,' Kerry told Utah media outlets. 'The notion that you have to have domestic ground testing, or any kind of testing beyond simulation, is ridiculous, given the redundancy and the threat level that our redundancy carries compared to any other nation on the planet today.' . . .

Copyright 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune.



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