NH #591: Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them – Ray Acheson

NH #591: Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them – Ray Acheson

Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them: Ray Acheson This Week’s Featured Interview: Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, we’re revisiting an interview we…

NH #588: Increased Child Leukemia Rates near Nuclear Reactors: Dr. Ian Fairlie

NH #588: Increased Child Leukemia Rates near Nuclear Reactors: Dr. Ian Fairlie

Increased Child Leukemia Rates Near Nuclear Reactors: Dr. Ian Fairlie This Week’s Featured Interview: Child leukemia rates near nuclear reactors have been shown to increase in 2014 report by Dr. Ian Fairlie. He is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment living in London UK and has studied radiation and radioactivity at least since the Chernobyl accident in…

NH #572 – Dr. Caldicott 2015 Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction

NH #572 – Dr. Caldicott 2015 Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction

This Week’s Special Feature: In 2015, Dr. Helen Caldicott brought together world experts for two day Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction. Meeting at the New York Academy of Science, experts in nuclear policy, politics, the impact of radiation on life, nuclear winter, weaponry joined forces to speak on the exact nature of the nuclear dangers…

NH #571: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging – Colleen Moore

NH #571: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging – Colleen Moore

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons and has experience in campaigning for justice and peace issues, including: ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen; promoting human…

NH #569: Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott to Biden: Let’s talk! – Pt. 2

NH #569: Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott to Biden: Let’s talk! – Pt. 2

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use…

Reference Man Standard for Radiation Exposure

NH #525: Reference Man Standard for Radiation Exposure Inadequate for Women, Girls, Boys – Mary Olson, Dave Lochbaum

This Week’s Featured Interview: Reference Man is the standard first developed in 1949 to establish maximum permissible amounts of radioactive materials in the human body.  BUT because humans are so diverse in age, gender, weight, height, lifestyles, geographic locations and other factors, no Reference Man definition can possibly reflect anything other than a scant few…

NH #470: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary: Anti-Nuclear Livestream Seeks Submissions to Blast Bomb Boosters: PSR’s Martin Fleck, UCS’s Lilly Adams

This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary of the United States dropping atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities —  for the first time, activists will provide international online peace and anti-nuclear programs on August 6 and 9.  This will be counterprogramming to a media deluge by pro-nukers seeking another bombgasm.  A coalition of…

NH #456: Covid19/Radiation Parallels + Radiation’s Disproportionate Impact on Women, Little Girls – Mary Olson

NH #456: Covid19/Radiation Parallels + Radiation’s Disproportionate Impact on Women, Little Girls – Mary Olson

Covid 19/Radiation Parallels + Radiation’s Disproportionate Impact on Women, Little Girls – Mary Olson This Week’s Featured Interviews: A CoVid19 UPDATE – How is the growing pandemic impacting the nuclear and anti-nuclear world? A FINAL THOUGHT on on how the impact of CoVid19 may feel familiar to those who have been following nuclear issues, especially…

NH #455: Fukushima Anniversary SPECIAL: Voices From Japan 2020 – Tokyo Shimbun Reporter Takeshi Yamakawa

Nuclear Hotseat Voices from Japan – #Fukushima 9th Anniversary SPECIAL. Interview with Takeshi Yamakawa from the Tokyo Shimbun #Nuclear Power Reporting Team; radiation problems in the Exclusion Zone from Voices from Japan investigative reporter Yuji Kaneko; commentary by co-producer Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.