CITIZEN ALERT

Citizen Alert is a Nevada non-profit, multi-issue organization dedicated to public participation and government accountability in issues of concern to Nevadans. Citizen Alert was founded in 1975. Since then it has worked for public education and action on primary energy resource development, nuclear waste, the Valmy power plant, military air and land withdrawals from the state and Native American nations, the effects of nuclear testing on the state's health and on world peace, and the fragility and interdependence of Nevada's land and water resources.

In the early 1980s this organization formed a successful grassroots campaign to stop the United States government from establishing the MX missile system in Nevada. The proposed MX missile program would have based a military defense program on railroad cars and highways which would have keep armament moving constantly throughout Nevada and western Utah, thus providing a target less susceptible to attack from foreign countries. This collection contains news clippings, newsletters, environmental impact statements, correspondence, pamphlets, and flyers about the organizations concerned with and the issues of the MX missile program. The contents date from about 1979-1981 and are unarranged.

Arranged by: Susan Searcy
Date: June 8, 1989

Box 1

1:1 Bureau of Indian Affairs-MX. 1981.
1:2 Archeological impacts.
1:3 Comments-Janet M. Moose, April, 1981. USAF hearings.
1:4 Comments on Draft Environment Impact Statement (DEIS) by persons and organizations. 1981.
1:5 Council for a Living World.
1:6 Congress.
1:7 Construction efforts.
1:8 Contractors.
1:9 Cactus Alliance.
1:10 Center for Peace Studies.
1:11 CERT.
1:12 Citizen Alert.
1:13 Citizens for Controlled Growth.
1:14-15 Defense Monitor Center for defense information.
1:16 Clergy and Laity Concerned.
1:17 DEIS workshop materials. 1981.
1:18 Economics.
1:19 MX Employment.
1:20 MX Energy requirements/studies.
1:21 Friends Committee on National Legislation.
1:22 Friends of the Earth.
1:23 Foresta Institute.
1:24 "The MX System and the Environment" prepared by the Dept. of the Air Force. Dec. 1979.
1:25 Facilitators Incorporated.
1:26 Great Basin MX Alliance- general information.
1:27 Great Basin-MX Alliance.
1:28 Great Basin MX Alliance Newsletter.
1:29 Nevadans Opposed to MX (G.B. MX Alliance).
1:30 Nevadans Opposing the MX.
1:31 No MX.
1:32 Sagebrush Alliance.
1:33 MX Information-articles etc.
1:34 MX Information Center.
1:35 MX UPDATE-MX Information Center-Salt Lake City.
1:36 MX Information Center.
1:37-38 HDR Newsclipping service (clippings about MX).
1:39 MX-Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada.
1:40 MX-Moapa Reservation meeting.
1:41 Environmental Impact Statement, MX Missile System - Reaction to.
1:42 MX- Water.
1:43 DEIS-"Deployment Area Selection/Land Withdrawal Application," Chapter 1, Volume 1.

1:44 Native American response to DEIS.
1:45-46 MX News of the West
1:47 Humbolt County.
1:48 National telephone campaign to stop the MX.
1:49 Fund to stop MX. July, 1981.
1:50 Clippings Native Nevadans for Political Education and Action.

Box 2

2:1 Nevada MX Project field office.
2:2 "Road Show" (public relations tours).
2:3 MX Road Show.
2:4 CALC Road Show.
2:5 Bill Vincent correspondence.
2:6 MX 1981 Clippings.
2:7 No MX-Reno-Carson City.
2:8 No MX-Las Vegas.
2:9 No MX-Ely.
2:10 Great Basin political leaders.
2:11 Antonia Chayes letters. Jan 31, 1980.
2:12 1980 (hearings on MX).
2:13 Denver Post MX series. September 1980.
2:14 Cedhouse-MX Missile press packet.
2:15 MX water rights sitting.
2:16 MX politics (clippings).
2:17 Hydra-Launch of MX.
2:18 Main operating bases-sites.
2:19 Moapa Band of Paiutes- land acquisition.
2:20 Miners and the MX (Clippings).
2:21 MX Clippings.
2:22 MX Missile System.
2:23 National Indian Lutheran Board.
2:24 Nevada Cattlemen and Wool Growers' Associations.
2:25 MX Missile System pamphlets.
2:26 MX- general.
2:27 National Campaign to stop MX.
2:28 NARMAC
2:29 National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
2:30 Nevada Indian Commission- MX activities.
2:31 Native American response.
2:32 Nevada Indian Legal Services.
2:33 Reagan administration.
2:34 Rusco, Elmer. "Traditional Western Shoshone and the Law."
2:35 SANE
2:36 Santa Barbara News and Response.
2:37 Social-economic impacts-"boom-bust."
2:38 Southern Paiute Restoration Act.
2:39 Split-basing.
2:40 State MX field office.
2:41 Sum Missiles- Richard L. Garwin.
2:42 Texas/New Mexico.
2:43 Union of Concerned Scientists.
2:44 Vandenberg AFB construction/testing.
2:45 Western Federal Regional Council MX Task Force meeting.
2:46 John Redhouse's comment on DEIS for WSSLA. 1981.
2:47 Western Shoshone Sacred Land Association.
2:48 Western Shoshones.
2:49 Western Shoshone-Russell Tribunal.
2:50 Office of Technological Assessment "Report on Alternate MX Basing."
2:51 Press Conference: (Native Nevadans for Political Education and Action). MX.
2:52 MX- NNPEA Activities.
2:53-54 Western Shoshone land rights.
2:55 Anthropology Resource Center.
2:56 MX Workshops. March 81.
2:57 Effort of Contractors to sell MX.

Box 3

3:1 NNPEA workshop materials.
3:2 Paul Laxalt Newsletters: anti-MX steps.
3:3-4 Various alliances to stop MX.
3:5 Utah-MX Impact Planning and Program Coordination.
3:6 Nevada MX Project field office impact planning.
3:7 Opposition statements.
3:8 MX legal meeting.
3:9 Western Action.
2:10 Edwin B. Firmage. 1979.
3:11 Edwin Brown Firmage testimony and speeches. 1980.
3:12 Edwin B. Firmage. 1981.
3:13 Firmage. 1982.
3:14 Fund to Stop MX-correspondence, minutes.
3:15 Correspondence from and to elected representatives.
3:16 BLM's responses to DEIS.
3:17 National Environmental Policy Act, Governmental Accounting Office, Council on Environmental Quality.
3:18-19 MX impact on Native Americans.
3:20 Duckwater Shoshone Tribe.
3:21 Jeremy Rifkin.
3:22-23 Land withdrawal studies and distribution lists for DEIS.
3:24-25 "Analysis of MX Impacts and Mitigation" by RUPI, Inc.
3:26 Clippings-Nevada success stories.
3:27 MX legal work.

Box 4

4:1-2 MX legal work.
4:3 Elizabeth Riseden manuscript: "Symphony for Spaciousness: Great Basin Interior."
4:4 Meeting notes (including MX DEIS hearings).
4:5 Shoshones, WSSLA, Dann sisters.
4:6 MX legal strategy meeting, Sept. 20, 1980, Foresta Institute.
4:7 Prengaman clippings.
4:8 Santa Barbara News and Review.
4:9 Native American Religious Freedom Act.
4:10 Western Shoshone Sacred Land Association.
4:11 MX 1979 clippings.
4:12 MX 1980 clippings.
4:13 Proposed Great Basin MX Alliance meeting. Aug 29, Cedar City, Utah.
4:14 GB MXA.
4:15 Emergency meeting development.
4:16 Correspondence on water issue.
4:17 List of resources.
4:18 "Anderson of Illinois Addresses America."
4:19 Information.
4:20 Elected representatives.
4:21 Reagan.
4:22-25 Clippings.
4:26 DEIS on land withdrawal, public hearings.
4:27-29 Journal articles about MX.
4:30 Air Force MX description.
4:31 Brunswasser litigation, Nevada Cattlemen's Assn.
4:32 Cattlemen's opposition.

Box 5

5:1 General Accounting Office and Office of Technical Assistance.
5:2 Impact lists.
5:3 Nebraska.
5:4 MX Systems Environmental programs. Scoping Summary, "Deployment Area Selection/ Land Withdrawal."
5:5 Scoping issues-correspondence.
5:6 Scoping document, NEPA, Environmental Impact critiques.
5:7 Wyoming-No MX.
5:8 Arizona groups.
5:9 California response to DEIS.
5:10 Texas/New Mexico anti-MX organizations.
5:11 Washington-NO MX.
5:12 National campaign to stop MX.
5:13 Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
5:14 Union of Concerned Scientists.
5:15 Dave Weiman.
5:16 GB MXA.
5:17 MX polls/election results MX referendum public opinion.
5:18 1980 clippings.
5:19 No MX Eastern Section.
5:20 Western Shoshone Sacred Lands Association Newsletter.
5:21 NO MX financial records.
5:22 Correspondence to elected officials; clippings.
5:23 MX strategy meeting.
5:24 Press-locals interviewed.
5:25 Press clippings. Fall 1981.
5:26 Furley, Congressional action.
5:27 Lincoln County.
5:28 Miners.
5:29 Montana Road Show materials.
5:30 Legislative Commission of the Legislative Counsel Bureau. State of Nevada. Bulletin No. 81-28: "MX Missile". Jan 1981.
5:31 MX Information Center.
5:32 MX Information Center, Salt Lake City.
5:33 Frequently copied clippings.
5:34 MX-Water.
5:35 James Watts.
5:36 Western utilities-energy.
5:37 MX budget.
5:38 Wildlife/environment.
5:39 Alternatives to MX/split basing.
5:40 BLM-MX.
5:41 Boomtown effects.
5:42 Sen.Cannon.
5:43 President Carter.
5:44 Citizens Alert.
5:45 Congress.
5:46 Contracts.
5:47 Women.
5:48 Council on Economic Priorities studies.
5:49 DEIS schedules and all other schedules.

Box 6

6:1 White Pine County.
6:2-4 MX Clippings; news releases.
6:5 Weinberger/Dept. of Defense.
6:6 Utah and MX.
6:7 Air Force.
6:8 Clark County.
6:9 Townes Commission/Weinberger.
6:10 Washoe County.
6:11 Water issue-MX.
6:12 Articles on national defense technology.
6:13 Sierra Club/Friends of the Earth.
6:14 State business interests and MX.
6:15 Business and MX.
6:16 Utah State MX Coordination Office.
6:17 Utahans-United Against MX.
6:18 David Weiman correspondence.
6:19 Reagan, Ronald.
6:20 Legal Fund.
6:21 Letter to Steve Bloomfield and members of Northern Nevada NO MX, Feb. 23, 1980, from Dave Hornbeck.
6:22 Religious opposition.
6:23 Clergy and Laity Concerned- misc.
6:24 Clippings M.D.
6:25 Nevada Cattlemen's Association.
6:26-27 Printed material.
6:28-29 Citizen Alert.
6:30-32 Nevadans Opposed to MX outgoing correspondence.

Box 7

7:1-2 Nevadans Opposed to MX.
7:3 No MX petitions originals.
7:4 No MX petitions, copies. Note: duplicate petitions were discarded; however, some of the petitions in this folder may also be duplicates.
7:5 Map of proposed MX Missile reserve.
7:6 Fritzi Cohen Military Audit Project for NO MX.
7:7 Marla Painter correspondence.
7:8 Basic MX information (office copies).
7:9 Public lands legal foundations.
7:10 MX community impact; BLM response to MX.
7:11 Printed MX material.
7:12 Report: "Special Report; Life Support Facility Planning...for Construction and Deployment Personnel for MX. Submittal 4.2 Holmes and Narver, Inc.
7:13 Report, Holmes and Narver, Inc. Submittal 4.3.
7:14 Report, Holmes and Narver, Inc. Submittal 4.4.
7:15 Holmes and Narver, Inc. Submittal 4.5.
7:16 Holmes and Narver, Inc. Submittal 4.6.
7:17 Holmes and Narver, Inc. Submittal 4.7.
7:18 Dry Lake Valley/ Caliente.
7:19 Ely, Nevada.
7:20-21 Opposition to MX Clippings.
7:22 Letters to List (letters opposing). Governor List.
7:23 ABM Defense Systems.
7:24 Legislature.
7:25 J.Edward Anderson, anti-MX reports.
7:26 Groups/individuals related to MX.
7:27 Jobs/economy.
7:28 Air-based MX.
7:29 Dept. of Interior.
7:30 Editorials/letters to editor.
7:31 Elko City.
7:32 Energy and MX.
7:33 GAO- MX.
7:34 General information.

Box 8

8:1 Statements on MX impact (general).
8:2 MX laws-basing in Nevada/Utah.
8:3 Land Withdrawal.
8:4 MX/Lawsuits.
8:5 Laxalt.
8:6 MX Media Coverage.
8:7 Gov. List, Nevada.
8:8 Gov. Matheson, Utah.
8:9 Mineral City.
8:10 Mining.
8:11-12 MX clippings.
8:13 Information/ MX field office.
8:14 MX humor.
8:15 MX Local Oversight Committee.
8:16 MX maps.
8:17 MX-technical aspects.
8:18 National campaign to stop MX (positions etc.).
8:19 National press/ reprints.
8:20 Native Americans.
8:21 New weapons/ military preparedness.
8:22 Nye County (includes: test blast).
8:23 Office of Technical Assessments reports.
8:24 Political Parties and MX.
8:25 Population statistics, Nevada and U.S.
8:26 Possible Contracts/ useful people.
8:27 State Assemblymen Prengaman.
8:28 Pro MX viewpoints (contractors, other groups).
8:29 Public health.
8:30 Radiation/victims/nuclear testing MX radiation.
8:31 Ranchers.
8:32 Renewable energy resources.
8:33 Reno/Washoe County.
8:34 Resolutions.
8:35 Responses to DEIS.
8:36 Surveillance measures/location uncertainty.
8:37 MX testimony.
8:38 Tonopah.
8:39 Clippings.
8:40 Review Committees DEIS, NV.
8:41 MX Missile/Vandenberg/construction progress.
8:42 Sagebrush Rebellion.
8:43 Salt II/Soviet military.
8:44 SANE.
8:45 Santini.
8:46 Sea based mode.
8:47 SICM.
8:48 Social impacts of MX.
8:49 Lander County.