Wednesday, June 5, 2002 | 11:10 a.m.
Department of Motor Vehicles officials rejected a new Nevada license plate design featuring an atomic mushroom cloud as insensitive to the times, the DMV said today.
In a letter to the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation, which will benefit from specially designed license plates, DMV director Ginny Lewis rejected the design because of current events.
"In light of the intense efforts Nevada is making to prevent our state from becoming the country's nuclear waste dump, the present threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan and the fear of new terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, any reference on a license plate to weapons of mass destruction is inappropriate and would likely offend our citizens," she said.
The 2001 Legislature passed a bill allowing the foundation to raise money through sales of a special license plate.
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