West Wing star's anti-nuclear protest

Martin Sheen was among a group of peace activists rounded up at an anti-nuclear protest at a test site in Nevada, authorities said.

A total of 39 protesters, including Sheen, were released after being stopped by sheriff’s deputies for crossing onto test site property following the rally, test site spokesman Darwin Morgan said.

Organisers said about 150 people attended the demonstration, but Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said it was only 75.

“We are asking for nuclear disarmament and peace,” organiser Ming Lai said. “We are asking for the Nevada Test Site to stop doing the testing they’re doing. The only reason they’re doing it is to make bombs.”

Sheen, who spent seven seasons playing President Josiah Bartlet in the TV drama series “The West Wing,” has received similar citations at the nuclear test site in the past.

Calls to Sheen’s publicist and agent were not immediately returned.

The site, about 70 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is where the federal government conducted above- and below-ground nuclear detonations from 1951 to 1992.

It remains a site for non-nuclear government tests on radioactive materials.