Nevada Desert Experience (Organization)
- 1957 August 06
- Larry Scott and other Quakers protest nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 August 06
- Sr. Rosemary Lynch and 18 others return to the NTS to honor the anniversary of the Quaker protests.
- 1981
- Michael Affleck, Louis Vitale, and other Franciscans in California and Nevada begin to contemplate holding a Lenten witness at the NTS to commemorate the 800th birthday of St. Francis of Assisi.
- 1982
- Michael Affleck, Louis Vitale, and other Franciscans begin protests at the NTS. Their civil disobedience culminates with the arrest of 19 people on Good Friday.
- 1984 April
- Lenten Desert Experience III is held, during which time the NTS suspends testing.
- 1984 May
- Louis Vitale, Anne Bucher, Michael Affleck, Duncan MacMurdy, Ed Dunn, and Terry Symens found the NDE in Oakland, California.
- 1984 October
- NDE holds its inaugural event, the Franciscan Peacemakers Weekend.
- 1985 August
- NDE organizes August Desert Witness to commemorate the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event is held annually.
- 1990
- NDE begins Holy Week Peace Walk, a 65-mile trek to the NTS from Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1991 June
- Corpus Christi Desert Experience held, drawing Catholic women from around the nation.
- 1992 October
- Together with the Western Shoshone Nation, NDE co-sponsors Healing Global Wounds to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent.
- 1990s
- NDE continues holding multiple events at the NTS, as well as fundraisers and conferences throughout the West.
- 1999-2000
- NDE holds Millennium 2000 at the NTS.
