Nuclear Hotseat

NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Film Explodes Nuclear “Protection” Myth of US Safety – Activists Get Active – Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group

A House of Dynamite by Katherine Bigelow This Week’s Featured Interview: A new film, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, by Oscar-winning director Katherine Bigelow, follows what would happen in the 18 minutes following discovery of a nuclear missile aimed at the United States. It exposes vulnerabilities to our purportedly 100% protection from incoming nukes and creates…

Read More NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Film Explodes Nuclear “Protection” Myth of US Safety – Activists Get Active – Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group
NH #747: Nat’l Cancer Study of Residents Near Nuclear Reactors MUST take place BEFORE New Ones Built – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, head of Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) This Week’s Featured Interview: Such a national study of the health risks posed by existing reactors should: LINK: Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power – original article by Joseph Mangano and the…

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NH #746: PEACE! How do we get there? Artists, Activists, Academics Oppose Nuclear at the Westheimer Peace Symposium at 35th Wilmington College Peace Resource Center

This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: This year’s 35th annual Westheimer Peace Symposium was based on the theme “Practicing Art, Practicing Nuclear Abolition” It was presented in conjunction with the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center Academic conference: Archives as Witness from Monday, September 29 through Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. I attended…

Read More NH #746: PEACE! How do we get there? Artists, Activists, Academics Oppose Nuclear at the Westheimer Peace Symposium at 35th Wilmington College Peace Resource Center
NH #745: Nuclear Funeral for LA’s Santa Susana Field Lab Radiation Clean-up + Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Nightmare Continues

Tombstone for Protest “Funeral” for Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up. (Photo Credit, Melissa Bumstead) Keystone (cover) photo credit: Sean Muniz via Snappr This Week’s Featured Interview: The long-promised clean-up of radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab site near downtown Los Angeles is being killed by Boeing & CA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. Mothers from Parents…

Read More NH #745: Nuclear Funeral for LA’s Santa Susana Field Lab Radiation Clean-up + Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Nightmare Continues
NH #744: The Deadly Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards + Halloween Preview

This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activists and concerned citizens about…

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NH #743: SPECIAL! Libbe’s play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE a Smash at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center

Ollie Basta, playing the lead role of podcaster/activist Jessie Keever, addresses a rally at the United Nations at the climax of ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE This Week’s Two-Part Very Special Feature – The Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College and the Play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE: Ollie Basta as podcaster/activist Jessie…

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NH #742: SPECIAL: Nuclear NOT the Solution to Climate Change – Physicist M. V. RAMANA

This Week’s Featured Interview: CLICK on book cover to purchase from Amazon. Beyond Nuclear Article on M.V. Ramana’s Book: NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

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NH #741: We Are All Nuclear Radiation Downwinders – Prof. Robert Jacobs book The Global Hibakusha

PERSONAL NOTE: Portrait of a playwright/podcaster in Peak Happiness with the stage of her new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy here. I’m in Ohio at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center (PRC) for the world premiere staged reading of my play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. It’s a featured…

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NH #740: Walmart Radioactive Shrimp Recall – FFAN’s Kimberly Roberson + San Onofre RadWaste Storage Battle Heats Up – Gary Headrick

William L. Laurence – “Atomic Bill” (l) – and J. Robert Oppenheimer (r) at the Trinity Site, one month after detonation of the first atomic bomb. Libbe’s Play: ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUEPremieres Sept. 9 at Wilmington Peace Resource Center Next Tuesday, September 9, my play on media manipulation at the dawn of the…

Read More NH #740: Walmart Radioactive Shrimp Recall – FFAN’s Kimberly Roberson + San Onofre RadWaste Storage Battle Heats Up – Gary Headrick

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