The US Senate on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, voted to open the Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling. ...
I remember when I was younger, everyone would talk about alaskan oil - would they ever drill in alaska? We always assumed they would either rape and pillage the rest of the world or come up with a new source of energy. This is probably the biggest sign that our civilization is truly in decline. Next we are going to end up testing nuclear weapons on our own people. Oh wait we actually did that too. History of Las Vegas

On state matters it is interesting to note that the Nevada Test Site is located about 65 miles northwest of the City of Las Vegas . . . Prior to the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty on August 5, 1963, which effectively banned atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, the Department's predecessor agencies conducted more than 1,100 nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site.
