NH #327: North UK Nuke Waste Storage Fightback – Marianne Birkby + “Man Who Saved the World” from Nuclear Holocaust Dies

Featured Image:  Stanislav Petrov, “The Man Who Saved the World” (1936-2017) This Week’s Featured Interview: Marianne Birkby is a wildlife artist who founded Radiation Free Lakeland in 2008 to oppose geological dumping of nuclear waste and new nuclear developments in Cumbria in the UK.  The groups aim is nuclear safety and that has recently included…

NH #321: Trump’s N. Korea WARGASM! Will It Come? A Different Perspective w/Space4Peace’s Bruce Gagon & Bo Jacobs in Hiroshima

This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  He provides the history of US/N. Korea relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump’s misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke…

NH #320: Nuclear Boondoggle! V.C. Summer DOA but SC Ratepayers Stuck w/the Bill: Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter

Featured Image:  Protesters against proposed Chalk River nuclear waste dump,intended to be sited next to the Ottawa River This Week’s Featured Interviews: Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear, gets into the complexities of what the abandonment of the V.C. Summer two-reactor build in South Carolina means.  For SC ratepayers, the news is not…

NH #319: Secret Bunkers for Continuation of U.S. Government while Nuked Citizens Die – RAVEN ROCK author Garrett Graff

Featured Image:  What a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb would do to Lower Manhattan. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Garrett Graff, author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die.  Not exactly your light bedtime reading! Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org deciphers TEPCO’s first batch of robot…

NH #318: Post-UN Weapons Ban, Scottish Protest of UK Nukes + Int’l Disarmament Camp – On-Site w/Nikki Clark

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nikki Clark, a veteran UK nuclear campaigner who co-founded the group South West Against Nuclear, serves as Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent, on the ground at the Coulport Nuclear Disarmament Camp in Scotland.  She interviews: Angie Zelter, a founding member of Trident Ploughshares currently in prison for refusing to accept a court…

NH #316: UN Passes Nuclear Weapons Ban + Dr. Gordon Edwards on Canada’s Nuclear Waste Insanity

NH #316: UN Passes Nuclear Weapons Ban + Dr. Gordon Edwards on Canada’s Nuclear Waste Insanity

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology.  He speaks on the Chalk River proposed Nuclear Waste Dump, its history, and the many ways it’s a dangerous, wrong-headed idea.  The first of three segments with Dr….

NH #303: UN Nuke Bomb Ban Blasts Forward + Don’t Bank on the Bomb – Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons  and offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future. Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group…

NH #300: Nukes in Space Eat Entitlement Programs! – Global Network’s Bruce Gagnon

A reminder to help us celebrate our 300th episode with a donation – 300 pennies, 300 dimes, 300 dollars, 300 good wishes, or any percentage thereof! This Week’s Featured Interview: Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, explains the dangers of nuclear deterrence, how the Pentagon plans to rob…