"Introduction of Nuclear Weapons Material Production Termination Act" statement

Title

"Introduction of Nuclear Weapons Material Production Termination Act" statement

Description

Statement by Representative Les AuCoin on November 14th, 1991 about the introduction of the Nuclear Weapons Production Termination Act. The act would have prohibited further production of tritium, plutonium, and highly enriched uranium for weapons and allocated the money saved to cleaning up environmental damaged caused by earlier production of nuclear weapons. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_104 for an overview of the bill. See also PUA_MS147_93 through PUA_MS147_110 for other materials related to nuclear arms control.

Creator

AuCoin, Les

Date Created

1991

Subject

Nuclear weapons industry
Nuclear arms control
Hanford Site (Wash.)
Legislators--United States
Speeches, addresses, etc.

Place

Washington, D.C.

Identifier

PUA_MS147_105

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/

Type

Text