States government began adhering to all treaties "calling for the cessation of all nuclear weapons tests in all atmospheres for all time". Springer also sent a letter to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada denouncing the United States as an "oppressor nation" and alleging mistreatment of the Shoshone. Five days later an arrest warrant was issued for Springer. Springer was apprehended two months later and charged with Failure to Surrender. In his subsequent trial, he pled not guilty, stating that a higher moral law required he continue anti-nuclear activism rather than go to prison. His first trial on the new charges resulted in a hung jury; however, he was convicted on a second attempt and sentenced to prison, being released in 1995. In 1997 Springer published a book, Excuse Me, Mr. President: The Message of the Broken Eagle. After his release from prison, Springer lived for a time in Arcata, California with artist Carol Andersen and her two children. Andersen's children later reported that Springer was abusive and an alcoholic. In later years, Springer lived on a ranch in Gerlach, Nevada. He died two weeks after his 2010 wedding of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. See also Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty References External links video of the Reagan incident (YouTube) American anti–nuclear power activists 2010 deaths 1950s births Suicides by firearm in Nevada