[Political Junkie Too]

Alaska wasn't a state in 1953. The law precedes Alaska's purchase; the Arctic waters in question in 1953 were Russian territory, right?

Are these waters covered by the law, since Alaska joined the union years later?

-PJ

[exit82]

The US purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867—Seward’s Folly.

It became a state in 1959, as did Hawaii.