[2] On 22 February 1974, George Washington's Birthday, organic farmer Sam Lovejoy took a crowbar to the weather-monitoring tower which had been erected at the site on the Montague Plains.
[2][3] In 1975, Green Mountain Post Films made Lovejoy's Nuclear War which told the story of the tower toppling and subsequent trial.
Lovejoy, and other members of the Montague Farm commune, such as Anna Gyorgy and Harvey Wasserman, helped to form the Clamshell Alliance anti-nuclear group.
Lovejoy went on to become President of Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) which organized five nights of benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden in 1979, featuring artist such as Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Crosby, Stills and Nash and a host of other music stars.
[5] Many nuclear plant proposals were no longer viable due to the downturn of electricity demand, significant cost and time overruns, and more complex regulatory requirements.