Tuesday, March 18, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
Sixty people will leave the U.S. Department of Energy building, 2753 S. Highland Drive, on Sunday and then spend six days walking to the entrance to the Nevada Test Site.
"We walk prayerfully to call attention to the immortality of the production of nuclear weapons," Franciscan Brother David Buer said of the Nevada Desert Experience, which keeps a vigil at the gates to the Test Site where U.S. nuclear weapons were tested above and below ground for more than 40 years.
Although nuclear weapons testing ended at the Test Site in 1992, the Nevada Desert Experience, a religious-based activist group, is calling for an end to the Clinton administration's plans for subcritical experiments.
The group claims subcritical tests would undermine the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty awaiting ratification by 44 nuclear-weapons capable nations.
The DOE says subcritical experiments are not nuclear tests.
The Nevada Desert Experience was encouraged by a recent appeal by 60 generals and admirals around the world calling for elimination of nuclear weapons, Buer said.
The group will work toward an end to nuclear testing and proliferation of weapons through nonviolence, prayer, dialogue and direct action, he said.
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