NH #569: Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott to Biden: Let’s talk! – Pt. 2

Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott being interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy at Symposium in N. St. Lewis on the radioactive Bridgeton waste dump.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

  • Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel-winner Linus Pauling, she is at the root of much of the anti-nuclear work being done today. Here in Pt. 2 of our interview, she sets her sights on a 1-on-1 talk with President Biden, VP Harris, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and a joint session of Congress on what nuclear war actually would do. It nearly worked w/Reagan; maybe this time for sure? We spoke on Monday, April 25, 2022.
  • LINK: Dr. Helen Caldicott Foundation

Tweet of the Week (to copy and paste):

#Nobel Prize nominee Dr Helen #Caldicott spoke w/Reagan & almost got nuclear weapons banned. Now she wants to talk w/#Biden #Harris #McConnell #Congress. It’s only the future that’s at stake. RT until someone makes that happen!

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Links:

John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, story on Energy Utilities – including well-placed slams at VC Summer nuclear boondoggle in South Carolina and malfeasance by Pacific Gas and Electric in California.
Nukes in Space , the powerful, award-winning 1995 documentary, exposes the U.S. government’s push to deploy nuclear technology in space. Winner of the Worldfest Gold Award, Houston, International Film and Video Festival First Prize Documentary Award at the 1995 Long Island Film Festival
War and Peace (Jang Aur Aman), a 2002 Indian documentary film directed by Anand Patwardhan that covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests., the ill-effects of the Indian test on the surrounding population and the reactions to the test among the government and the public.