It should be noted the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) expired in June of this year, despite calls to expand and extend the act. Many of Utah’s congressional delegation, who support Trump and Project 2025, see no problem with letting RECA sunset into history — regardless of the fact that it leaves many Utah families and other victims across the country, who were exposed, fending for themselves — while at the same time promoting Project 2025 policy expanding the nation’s nuclear infrastructure and accelerating plutonium production.
Robert O’Brien, Trump’s national security advisor, recently pitched the need to resume nuclear testing “for reliability and safety in the real world.” Then he advocated expansion of the nation’s nuclear stockpile to ensure the U.S. has “technical and numerical superiority.”
Trump first pitched resuming nuclear testing in 2020. The U.S. currently has 5,550 warheads, while Russia and China have 6,080 combined. Project 2025 further proposes rejecting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, which the U.S. would violate if it resumes nuclear testing.
When contacted by The Tribune concerning resumption of nuclear testing, Rep. Owens, Gov. Cox, Sen. Lee and Rep. Maloy did not respond. Please remember this in November!
Robert Hoff, Taylorsville