NH #332: N. St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare Explodes in Powerful “Atomic Homefront” Documentary – Director Rebecca Cammisa, Just Moms Dawn Chapman, Robbin Ellison Dailey

This Week’s Featured Interviews:

Focus this week is on “Atomic Homefront,” a documentary about the families in North St. Louis fighting against radioactive contamination of their homes from the illegally buried WWII nuclear weapons waste in  Westlake Landfill — and the underground fire at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill that can’t be put out and is advancing on the radioactive waste.

Interviews include:

  • Rebecca Cammisa, director of “Atomic Homefront”
  • Dawn Chapman, co-founder of Just Moms, StL  She is one of the residents living near the landfill whose activist response is featured in the film.
  • Robbin Ellison Dailey, who lives adjacent to the Westlake Landfill and has discovered radioactive waste inside her home.  An Encore presentation from Nuclear Hotseat #283 from November 22, 2016.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Black is white, bad is good, up is down, and Vice President Mike Pence says that nuclear bombs are good for peace!  George Orwell must be turning over in his grave!