NH #334: Sen. Corker Challenges President’s Authority to First-Strike Nukes – PSR’s Martin Fleck was In the Room Where it Happened, Cong. Ted Lieu on Nuke Use Legalities + FUKUSHIMA UPDATE w/Nancy Foust

This Week’s Featured Interviews:

  • Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bob Corker, which confronted the president’s – any president’s – authority to use nuclear weapons.
  • Congressman Ted Lieu’s presentation on the legalities surrounding use of nuclear weapons, taken from the October 26, 2017 Ploughshares conference, “Nuclear Weapons Policy in a Time of Crisis.

Monthly Fukushima UPDATE:

  • Nancy Foust of Simply Info knows the latest and shares it.  A Nuclear Hotseat EXCLUSIVE.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

If you already think the nuclear industry and its technology are bananas, wait’ll you hear their shenanigans at the COP23 Climate Change Conference!  You’ll go ape! 

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