NH #710: Change Doomsday Clock to Peace Clock – Alice Slater + Big Win for Cleanup at Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Lab – Melissa Bumstead

NH #710: Change Doomsday Clock to Peace Clock – Alice Slater + Big Win for Cleanup at Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Lab – Melissa Bumstead

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) A trifecta! From the Onion… and then unfortunately, NOT the Onion: New Orleans has a National Nucleaer Security Administration helicopter scanning the city for nuclear weapons (say what? In Mardi Gras beads?); and NRC’s updated mission statement turns the already captured regulator into…

NH #709: Anti-Nuke Veteran Harvey Wasserman Spearheads Exciting New Eco Broadcast Network

NH #709: Anti-Nuke Veteran Harvey Wasserman Spearheads Exciting New Eco Broadcast Network

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: Anti-nuke icon Harvey Wasserman is a veteran of five decades of activism against nuclear reactors. He has authored books, organized demonstrations that deeply impacted the movement, helped successive generations of activists to learn the issues, the talking points, and the actions they can take. In recent years, he has included a…

NH #708: Gender & Ionizing Radiation – New UN Report – Co-authors Mary Olson, Amanda Nichols

NH #708: Gender & Ionizing Radiation – New UN Report – Co-authors Mary Olson, Amanda Nichols

This Week’s Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is damaging to human health. But how do we know that? Who figures out how bad it can be? How much radiation we can be exposed to without risking our…

NH #707: SPECIAL: NUKES AND FIRE – California Wildfires and Nuclear Dangers

NH #707: SPECIAL: NUKES AND FIRE – California Wildfires and Nuclear Dangers

This Week’s SPECIAL: NUKES AND FIRE – California Wildfires and Nuclear Dangers Libbe’s Story: I live in Los Angeles in the foothills less than a mile away from what became the Eaton (Altadena/Pasadena) fire Evacuation Warning zone. There was no new Nuclear Hotseat last week because after the Eaton fire broke out on Tuesday, I…

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

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,…

NH #704: The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation – New Book by Cindy Folkers, Ian Fairlie

NH #704: The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation – New Book by Cindy Folkers, Ian Fairlie

This Week’s Featured Interview: A new book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION, is a devastating look into the history of radiation harms and the scientists who attempted to reveal the truth by defying political and institutional pressures. It explains how those who tried to warn us were censored and discredited…

NH #703: Nobel Peace Prize to Japanese A-Bomb Survivors + SPECIAL: Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit w/Beatrice Fihn, Dawn Chapman, More!

NH #703: Nobel Peace Prize to Japanese A-Bomb Survivors + SPECIAL: Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit w/Beatrice Fihn, Dawn Chapman, More!

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. Three Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) were in Oslo, Norway to accept the award. Link: This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: The first ever Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit drew together more than 100 reporters, editors, nuclear experts, activists…

NH #702: Combating Nuclear Greenwashing -Physicist and Atomic Chanteuse Lynda Williams

NH #702: Combating Nuclear Greenwashing -Physicist and Atomic Chanteuse Lynda Williams

This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and Activist Lynda Williams – a foe of nuclear greenwashing Lynda Williams is a Hawaii-based physicist, activist, writer and performance artist – AKA The Physics Chanteuse. She battles against nuclear greenwashing (aka lying) with public presentations, lectures, theatre, and a ferocious activist spirit. Lynda is bringing her new one woman…