Peace and Peace Culture

NH #496: Peace and Peace Culture: Hope from Hiroshima Peace Culture Village – Steve Leeper

A SPECIAL Nuclear Hotseat interview that considers what Peace is, what Peace Culture is, and how we might work on a planetary basis to institute new ways of being and building for a sustainable future.  A Holiday gift from me and the crew at Nuclear Hotseat for those who are working in what this interview…

NH #494: Nuclear Downwinders (That’s All of Us): Journalist/Playwright Mary Dickson

Nuclear Downwinders Update – Map of U.S. areas hit by fallout from at least three of the 100 atmospheric bomb tests done above ground in Nevada, showing that most of us are truly downwinders. Used by permission of Richard Miller Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more…

NH #493: Nuclear Lame Duck Legislation: Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS

Nuclear Lame Duck Legislation – Diane D’Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Service gives us the rundown on a few of the more than 18 nuclear-related bills currently in front of the lame duck Congress.   This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Lame Duck Legislation – Diane D’Arrigo is the Radioactive Waste Project Director for Nuclear…

NH #492: Nuclear Racism: Navajo Nation’s Radioactive Legacy – The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster

Nuclear Racism: Navajo Nation’s Radioactive Legacy –Uranium mining disaster site: SRIC’s Chris Shuey on site at Church Rock, explaining the devastation of the 1979 uranium tailings pond spill of 94-million gallons of highly acidic radioactive waste into Puerco River on Navajo Nation land. This Week’s Featured Interview:

NH #491: Social Media for Activists w/Colleen Moore, Beyond the Bomb

Social Media for Activists:  Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero’s Colleen Moore (above)explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Social Media for Activists:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons. Colleen has experience…

NH #490: Children of Atomic Veterans Carry Heavy Genetic Burden: Victoria Moore

Children of Atomic Veterans  – DNA damage, penile cancer,and the message:   Don’t have kids! The American devastation of military personnel from the atomic bomb test radiationthat devastated the Marshall Islands and its people.  This Week’s Featured Interview: Children of Atomic Veterans focuses on medical and genetic issues in those whose parents – primarily fathers –…

NH #489: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: The Inside Scoop w/Ray Acheson + NPR’s Ira Flatow IS Numnutz of the Week!

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban – The inside scoop from Ray Acheson,Director of Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and FreedomShe was in ALL the rooms where it happened! This Week’s Featured Interview: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban:  Ray Acheson is Director of the Disarmament Programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom…

NH #488: Hot Nukes & Global Warming: Nuclear’s Climate Change Connection – Attny Susan Hito Shapiro

Hot nukes – The thermal plume from Indian Point and Lovett power plants in this infra-red image taken in 1998 by scientists from GER/SpectroTech, Inc. The reds indicate discharge temperatures from 1-8 degrees hotter than ambient river water, and the yellows go up to 14.5 degrees hotter. One scientist noted that the plume appeared to…