NH #685: Hiroshima, Nagasaki 79th Anniversary -“Atomic Cover-Up” film, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN

NH #685: Hiroshima, Nagasaki 79th Anniversary -“Atomic Cover-Up” film, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN

The remains of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb destroyed the city, 1945 ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with…

NH #441: Nuclear Waste Warriors: USA National Activists Gather to Fight for Truth, Sanity in Radioactive Waste Storage

Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the United States gathered in Albuquerque, NM in November to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate efforts and actions. This Week’s SPECIAL: Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together November 7-11, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate work against the nuclear nightmares in their own backyards,…

NH #424:Kansas City Site: When “Not Nuclear” really means “Nuclear, Radioactive & Deadly”

Wilfred Burchett’s front page story about Hiroshima in the Daily Mirror. He was the only reporter who got the story and got it right; U.S. military crackdown on access to Hiroshima made accurate reporting on the nature of radiation and its horrific impact impossible – and Burchett’s story was buried. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s…

NH #394: UChicago Nuclear Die-In at Atomic Pile Commemoration – New Anti-Nuke Generation’s India Weston

UChicago’s Henry Moore Statue “Nuclear Energy” was surrounded by body outlinesrepresenting the civilians who were killed by atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Photos: Brittney Dorton This Week’s Featured Interview: UChicago’s India Weston, a remarkable young anti-nuclear activist, fills us in on the new-media way she first discovered the hidden nuclear history, how she grew…

NH #392: Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Who Broke into “High Security” US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice

Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice, upon her 2015 release from prison on sabotage chargesfor her peaceful break-in and protest – at age 82 – at the Y-12 “Nuclear  Fort Knox” This Week’s Featured Interviews: To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of the anti-nuclear…

NH #372: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration – Daniel Ellsberg, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow, Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES

Hiroshima watch frozen at the exact time the atomic bomb landedon August 6, 1945. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration: Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CARES, explains the group’s special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and its annual August 6 March for Nuclear Abolition and Global Survival. Daniel Ellsberg, best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers and author…

NH #363: TEPCO Nuclear Error = Fukushima Terror: Nancy Foust on Newly Discovered 2011 Fukushima Radiation Releases

TEPCO’s Fukushima plant manager, the late Masao Yoshida, who battled his offsite bosses to continue pouring water onto the melting-down remains of three nuclear reactors Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of simplyinfo.org, returns to tell us about a shocking new documentary from Japanese public broadcaster NHK.  MELTDOWN: Cooling Water Crisis (see…

NH #360: Yucca Mountain YUCK! + NRC to Geriatric Nukes: “Life After 60? OK!” + New Trinity Site/Rocky Flats Docu OFF COUNTRY

Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY, which examines lives impacted on-the-ground after the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion in the world, and at Rocky Flats, the plutonium contaminated former nuclear weapons…

NH #351: Nuclear’s Ticking Doomsday Clock w/Rachel Bronson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Rachel Bronson is President and CEO of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the scientists behind setting the Doomsday Clock.  She explains where that image and concept came from, who decides what time to set the clock, and the criteria used to determine just how close to global annihilation…