NH #706: SPECIAL – NUCLEAR NUMNUTZ OF THE YEAR 2024! Plus ICAN Report from Geneva on Nobel Peace Prize and Nuclear Weapons Ban

This Week’s SPECIAL Year-End Feature: Numnutz of the Year!

It’s been a year, all right, with plenty of Numnutzery to go around. We look back on 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) – the nuclear stories that made no sense, defied logic, infuriated me, touched my “Despair” button, or just got me mad enough to go on a rant.

Among the snippets from the past 52 weeks:

  • Tucker Carlson blames “demons” for creating nuclear weapons.
  • Scallops from Japan too radioactive to sell in that country? Sell ’em to the U.S.A.!
  • US Environmental Protection Agency promotes nuclear to school children with a comic book!
  • Russian Prime Minister Putin consults with shamans about nuclear and builds plywood mock-ups of the White House and Big Ben in Siberia to use as nuclear targets.
  • The many ways in which nuclear and its radioactive dangers hide in plain sight by getting its minions to simply “forget” to mention them!
  • And of course, several instances of nuclear ignorance (aka “numnutzery”) from members of the U.S. Congress.

Dishonorable Mention for the Numnutz Story of the Year:

Not mentioned on the show, but definitely worth a visit: NH #677: OBSCENE Atomic Museum in Las Vegas Shows No Bomb Victims, No Downwinders, Just Nuclear “FUN”<!!!> – More numnutzery per square inch than even I anticipated.

Banner promising all kinds of “nuclear fun” displayed outside the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas.

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter

Linda Pentz Gunter chooses her own numnutz, and it’s Elon Musk!

The other Muskrat.

ICAN UPDATE with Alistair Burnett from Geneva, Switzerland

Nobel Peace Prize ceremony report and interview with ICAN’s Digital Campaign Coordinator Lucero Oyarzun. She was at the events in Oslo when the prize was awarded to Nihon Hindankyo, the Japanese Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, and provides a deeply moving eyewitness report.

Photo credit: ICAN | Darren Ornitz