More than 1,500 protestors demonstrating against nuclear testing including members of the American Peace Test on Feb. 5, 1987. Officers from the Nye County Sheriff’s Department are on the scene. The demonstration brought a congressional delegation, celebrities Martin Sheen, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Blake, astronomer Carl Sagan, former State Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, scientist Lester Grinspoon and the international media. Location is the Nevada Test Site in Mercury, Nevada. (Jim Laurie/Las Vegas Review-Journal)