Upon coming into office, the anti-nuclear zealots put into senior Administration posts in the Department of Energy, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State and Defense Departments, Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Security Council saw to it that the United States would forego any further testing.
Chief Veterinary Officer Dr Christine Glossop explained that tagging would be a good thing to do "but technology isn't there to do it without anaesthetising the badger" and the department "might need Home Office licence to do this as well".