Strake

The test, dubbed "Divine Strake," is sponsored by Tegnelia’s agency and is set to be conducted at the Energy Department’s Nevada Test Site in Nye County, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Las Vegas.

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Reno-lawyer Robert Hager whose character was assassinated earlier this year by his local television station on top of his losing over $500,000 in lawyers fees when a Federal District Court Judge wouldn't admit that Hager won the Divine Strake lawsuit (Hager even ended up in the hospital one day due to stress over the 'Strake' fight); then you have Robert Loux, whose malfeasance led to his demise as head of the State of Nevada's Agency for Nuclear Projects that is the only effective government-wide check on the Nevada Test Site; then you have some fine activists in 'downwinder-country' Idaho, who are now fighting a proposed nuke plant and two of the lead activists got spun into the web of separate spurious (in my opinion) lawsuits filed by the nuke plant developer designed to 'tie up' the activists for a while; then you have others, many others, behind the scenes who gave up, sold out, are 'too busy,' and so on, and stopped their complaining about Nevada Test Site (NTS) dangers.

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He writes: [The] delay of Divine Strake may consequently have been a result of ... generals opposed to a nuclear bombing campaign against Iran.

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Divine Strake was the un-stoppable Nevada bomb test that, remarkably, was killed.

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

It appears that each and every DTRA test - with the exception of the cancelled Tunnel Target Defeat Program 'Divine Strake' test – was categorically excluded from further NEPA review.

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

While activists, politicians and the media tried to wrap their arms around what this Divine Strake really was about, Hager hit the ground running and his lawsuit played a critical role in delaying the Divine Strake test that year.

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

There won't be another 700-ton Divine Strake test.

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

Divine Strake critics launch a new fight against plans to set off blasts in Nevada 'by Ted McDonough of Salt Lake City Weekly, Rich Miller, an environmental consultant and expert witness for those suing the government, said "The issue of a smaller blast is one of semantics."

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

Miller contended that a blast one-fourth the size of Divine Strake could still carry radioactive material downwind into populated areas, given the right atmospheric conditions.

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

DTRA's green light apparently gives it the ability to conduct these non-nuclear tests at any size, as long as they are smaller than Divine Strake.

The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008