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Committee backs resolution urging continued moratorium on nuclear weapons testing
Summary
A concurrent resolution urging continued opposition to nuclear weapons testing was presented and advanced by the committee after testimony from advocacy groups noting health harms from past testing; the resolution was moved and passed out of committee.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 3, urging continued commitment to refrain from nuclear weapons testing and to protect citizens from exposure, was presented to the committee by Senator Riebe and moved forward with a favorable recommendation.
Sponsor remarks cited existing programs that maintain weapons reliability without testing and highlighted historical public-health harms from nuclear testing. Steve Erickson, speaking for Downwinders, thanked lawmakers for past support on related compensation efforts and urged continued leadership to prevent any resumption of testing, noting that returning to testing could increase international pressure to abandon the testing moratorium that has been in place since 1992.
Senators discussed the resolution and then voted to pass SCR 3 out of committee; the committee record shows recorded 'ayes' and some 'nos' but that the resolution passed.
