11 day long Anti-Columbus Day and Anti-Nuclear demonstrations begin at the Nevada Test Site

At the invitation of the Western Shoshone Tribe and Corbin Harney, an anti-nuclear activist and spiritual leader for the Newe people, ~3,000 protesters from 12 different countries gathered for "Healing Global Wounds". They planned actions and demonstrations, eventually using culverts and other means to enter the Test Site where 530 were arrested by Wackenhut Security forces on charges of trespassing. Demonstrators included representatives of indigenous people from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhastan, one of two places used for nuclear testing in the former Soviet Union. Demonstrators also included surivors of nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during World War II and U.S. veterans who were exposed to atomic fallout while in the military. The protesters came at the invitation of the Western Shoshone National Council, who last year issued a worldwide plea for help in putting a stop to nuclear testing on Indian lands. Shoshone leaders are concerned because the cancer rate among their tribe living at the site is 42 percent higher than the national average.

Full-scale nuclear weapons testing did not resume.