NH #776: Deadly Irony & Blind Spots at UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - John LaForge of Nukewatch

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• The United Nations Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is in its third of four weeks, and while one can hope that the nations of the world come together to condemn nuclear weapons and move us down the road to their complete elimination, there’s a lot standing in its way. That’s why we talk with John LaForge. He is the co-founder of Nukewatch, a Wisconsin-based environmental and peace action group, dedicated to the abolition of nuclear power, weapons and continued radioactive waste production. John is just back from New York, where he attended the first four days of the NPT meetings at the United Nations. Here, he casts his keen and often skeptical eye on what took place there – information not necessarily covered in mainstream media or even the more hope-tinted reports from anti-nuclear NGOs. Eye opening insights from a man who has done prison time for his peaceful protests of nuclear weapons.

Links from Interview:

• Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will.
• NPT Article Collection
• Nukewatch

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• Languaging counts! So when is a “renaissance” not a Renaissance? When nuclear hijacks the word!

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

If you get ’em while they’re young, you’ve got ’em! That’s the adage followed by the nuclear industry with their propaganda, uh. outreach to young high school students and even the Scouts!