NH #710: Change Doomsday Clock to Peace Clock – Alice Slater + Big Win for Cleanup at Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Lab – Melissa Bumstead

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Great news: A recent critical hearing was held before the Los Angeles Water Board regarding the clean-up of Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Lab site, which sits at the base of the hills only 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. And lo and behold – sanity prevailed and we won one! Melissa Bumstead, Founder and Co-chair of Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab fills us in.

• Veteran Peace activist Alice Slater proposes that we replace the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock with a Peace Clock. Audio problems on our interview prevented the use of the recording, but we have Alice’s thoughts and concepts from her recent article, Stop Imagining Doomsday and Start Imagining Peace, read by Libbe HaLevy.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

A trifecta! From the Onion… and then unfortunately, NOT the Onion: New Orleans has a National Nucleaer Security Administration helicopter scanning the city for nuclear weapons (say what? In Mardi Gras beads?); and NRC’s updated mission statement turns the already captured regulator into a full-on pro-nuclear enabler. Sheesh!

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter

Trump could launch a nuclear first strike all on his own. But there’s a bill that could stop him.

The ICAN UPDATE with Alistair Burnett

Preparing for the United Nations Third Meeting of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Includes interview with ICAN’s Susi Snyder.

LINKS:

• How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public
• New U.S. Hydrogen Bombs May Have Arrived at NATO Bases – John LaForge
• Beyond the visitor entrance:  A newcomer’s guide to the TPNW 3MSP – A zoom call on Tuesday 11 February, 8:00 & 20:00 GMT  Registration required::
  • Call 1 → 08:00 GMT (convert your time zone here): Register
  • Call 2→ 20:00 GMT (convert your time zone here):  Register
• Mayors for Peace – an international “Peace Education Webinar” to promote youth-led peace activities – February 18 (Tue.), 2025, from 7:00am to 8:30 am (UTC) / 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (JST) Register
• A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear Plant Relicensing – Webinar with Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear; M.V. Ramama, Simmons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, University of British Columbia; moderated by Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Hotseat. Mon March 24 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm EDT REGISTER