NH #695: Japanese A-Bomb Survivors Group Awarded Nobel Peace Prize! + Small Modular Nuclear Reactors/Nuke Weapons Connection, Ramana, Pt. 2

Lead Story:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. (Audio commentary on this award from the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) will be on next week’s program.)

The rarely-seen carnage left behind in the wake of the atomic bomb drop by the United States on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Because of actions taken by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to suppress information and images about how devastating the attack was on the people, most photos you see were taken after clean-up of the bodies. This is from a Japanese newsreel company’s footage the day after the bomb dropped. The film was confiscated and suppressed as “Top Secret” until the 1980’s.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

Physicist and author M. V. Ramana

THE NUCLEAR RESISTER:

A new monthly feature.  Jack Cohen–Joppa, who along with his wife, Felice Cohen–Joppa, publish The Nuclear Resister newsletter and have since 1980.  Here, Jack shares stories from their archive, bringing our shared activists history to life.  NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness

Cameras meant to guide the removal of radioactive debris from Fukushima Daiichi have again failed. At least this time Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admits that they fried from too much radioactivity. So what is TEPCO’s plan to “fix” these errant cameras? Can you say, “reboot?”

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