In the 20th century, the Western Shoshone Nation's homelands began to suffer from nuclear weapons testing conducted by the U.S.A. & the U.K.. A few peacemakers came out in the 1950s to challenge the nuclear testing, and a few more in the 1970s. People of faith gathered for the first "Lenten Desert Experience" at the Nevada Test Site in 1982 to witness against ongoing nuclear violence. Soon the resisters were calling their movement "Nevada Desert Experience" (NDE). The name also refers to an official organization (the one sponsoring this website) which continues to conduct spiritually-based events near the Nevada Test Site (the NTS) in support of peace and nuclear abolition. NDE celebrates the power of God's creation, analyzes the tragedy of the nuclear weapons industry, and calls for ending the destruction and repairing the damage. 60 miles from the expanding city of Las Vegas, also receives shipments of "low-level" nuclear waste .

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