As a senator from Arizona and US-Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall learned first-hand about the governmental deceit which nurtures the nuclear industry - "an industry willing to kill our own people" (Udall). Spear-heading an ongoing political battle, he laid the foundation for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, and forced a measure of democratic accountability on the part of the nuclear weapons industry. Since 1978, in their lawsuits against the US-Government, he has represented those sacrificed on the front-line to the nuclear arms race: Navajo uranium miners, workers in bomb factories, downwinders...

Stewart Udall

The 1999 Nuclear Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to: Stewart Udall

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