Over the previous 45 years, more than 1,000 bombs of the U.S. government exploded on Western Shoshone lands. In 2010, the U.S. government sets aside an area of the Western Shoshone Nation, Yucca Mountain, as a final repository for high-level nuclear waste from the U.S. nuclear industry. The Shoshone tribe raises major concerns about the impact on their members’ health as well as environmental effects. Currently, the federal government has not initiated or implemented any official health studies, remedies to the environmental pollution, programs for early detection of environmental disease, or disease surveillance programs. To date, in violation of Shoshone treaty rights, the federal government has facilities on or control of more than 90 percent of Western Shoshone land for military and nuclear purposes. (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/101/hr5237/summary)