119 Nuclear Hotseat episodes on this topic from August 2011 to August 2026. Most recent: “NH #789: AI and Nukes to Power Them? An Unholy Alliance – Physicist M.V. Ramana”.
This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and author M. V. Ramana Physicist M.V. Ramana has been featured numerous times on Nuclear Hotseat and his input is highly prized here not only for his understanding of nuclear power’s failures, shortcomings, and dangers, but the clarity with which he can exp
Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group reveals problems at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab from demands to manufacture up to 80 new plutonium pits (bomb triggers) per year.
Between 1966 & 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, leukemia survivor & Member of Parliament, explains ongoing health cha
Nukes cost you HOW MUCH?!? PSR's annual Nuclear Weapons Tax Calculator sets it at $401 for every woman, man, child, infant - $137 BILLION for 2026 alone! Yowzah!
Documentary NUKED reveals US lies & betrayal of Marshall Islands people in order to conduct atomic bomb tests that destroyed their ancestral lands, lifestyle, and health. + Doomsda
Supreme Court refuses to hear petition protesting New Mexico proposed high level radioactive waste dump. Greenland as target for US explained in award-winning 2017 film.
Nukes & state governments. New Hawaii report nixes nuke reactors. So Cal court favors Boeing over parents on Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up case.
BOMBSHELL, explosive new PBS documentary, on how media manipulation after WWII atomic bombings engineered American consent to all things nuclear.
Just 1 nuclear explosion in space could create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would fry the US electricity grid back to the stone age - Prof. Steven Starr + Joseph Mangano on
Tom Clements, Director of Savannah River Site Watch, monitors DOE management of weapons-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, & clean-up of high-level nuclear waste.
How Dr. Helen Caldicott came heartbreakingly close to ridding the world of nuclear weapons after talking with then-President Reagan.
The nuclear energy/nuclear weapons connection w/Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibiity + Dr. Gordon Edwards on Small Modular Nuclear Reactor lies.
The NRC, our supposed nuclear safety watchdog, gets hit by Executive Order to “enable” the building of more reactors. What could go wrong? Cindy Folkers explains.
ICAN's Melissa Parke on her trip to Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Korea for the 80th anniversary of US atomic bombings of Japan. A Nuclear Hotseat exclusive.
On the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb blast, Downwinders share stories of what the radiation did to their families and way of life, how the government failed them, and h
Iran can still build nuclear bombs. Dr. Gordon Edwards decodes uranium enrichment process & levels; they were already far above levels required for weapons.
AI & nukes: Former Commander of SAC Gen. Kehler offers insights into AI & nuclear launch codes, & an investment advisor on how to keep your money out of nukes!
India’s attack on Pakistan raises risk of nuclear retaliation. Former Commander of US Strategic Command reveals inner workings of nuclear launch command chain.
Lakenheath Peace Camp opposes US nukes at UK RAF base, sets 10 days of action mid-April to keep US nuclear weapons out of England.
Ontario's building 4 US nuclear reactors threatens irreversible vulnerability to Canada's sovereignty - nuclear blackmail forcing it to become 51st state.
UN Meeting on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons condemns "deterrence" as a dangerous myth, brings together 1,000 int'l campaigners
Media prep & livestream access for the United Nations Meetings on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, March 3-7 + Politicians Against Nukes
Project 2025, Musk & DOGE, resumption of atmospheric bomb testing - nuclear dangers dominated the week's news. Veteran environmental journalist Karl Grossman explains.
Wildfires & nuclear dangers - what's at risk, how can we defend against fire threats to reactors, spent fuel, weapons manufacturing, waste? 3 Experts weigh in on this week's Nuclea
The annual Nuclear Hotseat Numnutz of the Year award - a look back at 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week at the most boneheaded moves by the nuclear industry & its enable
Nobel Peace Prize went to Japanese A- & H-bomb survivors + Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit gathered 100+ media pros to DC for a 2-day braintrust - & Nuclear Hotseat was there!
UN promotes Resolution for 21-scientist panel to examine nuclear war & climate change + G20-Rio hosts Int'l Uranium Film Fest. Art meets nuclear weapons, Hibakusha!
79 yrs since Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing. Atomic Cover-Up film of bomb aftermath, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nuclear anniversaries: First A-Bomb Test at Trinity in NM, Church Rock uranium tailings pond spill on Navajo Nation lands - both happened on July 16, 34 years apart.
What do Youth Want to Know About Nukes? Q&A with students at Wilmington College & Peace Resource Center + Congressional briefing on radioactive contamination of food/water.
The ADVANCE Act - a nuclear industry wish list - raises serious questions for nuclear safety & regulation. Diane D'Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at NIRS, explains the
Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibiity on nuclear energy/nuclear weapons connection + Dr. Gordon Edwards on SMNR lies.
Anti-nuclear financial fitness: how to keep your money out of nukes? Mary Beth Gallagher explains methods, tools to keep your money clean.
Nuclear Hotseat's annual Fukushima anniversary VOICES FROM JAPAN SPECIAL focuses on earthquake dangers to Japan's nuclear reactors.
Melissa Parke, head of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on strategies to ally the nuclear & climate crisis movements to abolish nukes.
US stages nuclear weapons in Europe. John Laforge offers analysis of how nuked-up the US really is on the first monthly Nukewatch Report
International politicians at UN to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. US Congressman, MPs, mayors meet to end nukes.
More than 250 int'l activists meet at UN f/5 days on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons - Libbe HaLevy's exclusive report for Nuclear Hotseat.
Prepare for next week's UN Meetings on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons w/a look at Nuclear Hotseat's TPNW interviews. Host Libbe HaLevy will be reporting.
Oppose nuclear? Good news! Downwinder compensation, no license f/TX radwaste dump, Hudson River safe from radwater release, ILL keeps no new nukes law
The US already has 6,000 nuclear weapons. Why rush to build more plutonium pits, the bombs' trigger mechanism? Chris Mello of Los Alamos Study Group follows the money.
Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in NUCLEAR BODIES: Th
Depleted uranium weapons sent by UK to Ukraine equal nuclear war without the fireball, an eternal threat to human DNA. Dr. Helen Caldicott minces no words.
Nuclear Energy & Nuclear Weapons - 2 sides of same issue. PSR's Alfred Meyer shows how reactor infrastructure supports weapons development.
U.S. nuclear campaigner John LaForge, about to be sent to German prison for 2020 peaceful protest of nuclear weapons at Buchel Air Force Base.
NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Meagan Rice on 2012 break-in/protest at Y12 Uranium "Ft. Knox" & Susi Snyder w/Don't Bank on the Bomb.
Interview w/Dr Helen Caldicott on her Oscar-winning film, If You Love This Planet - medical impact of nuclear war & she resets the Doomsday Clock!
Nuclear Hotseat marks the UN Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons 2nd anniversary since ratification with what it took to pass it, where it is now.
Illinois mandates teaching Asian history - including nuclear history - in public schools to combat racial hate crimes. 6th graders debate Hiroshima!
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen explains dangers at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia site & young Welsh climate activists organize 7-day anti-nuke march.
Radiation damage from Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic bombs continues down the generations. 2nd generation Hibakusha reveals genetic legacy.
This week, interview w/director of documentary TELEVISION EVENT, about THE DAY AFTER, a TV movie on nuclear war that changed the world.
Screen shot of Russian troops shelling the Zaporizhzhia six nuclear reactor site in Ukraine, March 4, 2022. LINK below for full NPR analysis of damage to the site. This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps is Nuclear Waste Spe
Nuclear Ukraine UPDATE: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, a licensed nuclear reactor operator and expert witness, as well as the Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates . Nuclear Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactors first shelled, t
Plutonium pits – the trigger for nuclear weapons: Congress has mandated that this country produce new plutonium pits at a rate of 80 per year by 2030… but nobody’s done the proper Environmental Impact Surveys to dete
Nuclear-Free Earth: Is such a thing even possible? Listen to veteran, award-winning environmental journalist Karl Grossman explain not only why it is possible and necessary, but how we can get there. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nu
Nuclear Disarmament – The Priests, The Nuns and the Bombs , a film by Helen Young. It focuses on the Plowshares movement and two key protests – the break-in at the Y-12 highly enriched uranium stockpile site at Oak Ridge,
New York Times lies of omission at the dawn of the Atomic Age are the reason why we don’t understand radiation and its dangers. Front line Vietnam war correspondent Beverly Deepe-Keever spells it out in her es
Blast the money out of nuclear weapons – and while you’re at it, clean up the radioactive cancer-causing mess you’ve already created! Picture of recent demo in Sacramento by a coalition of environmental justice groups.&nbs
Hiroshima at 76: Professor Yuki Miyamoto, second generation Hibakusha, whose mother survived the A-bombing of August 6, 1945 This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima Anniversary – 76 years after the United States dropped the at
Trinity A-Bomb – First photo of the birth of the Atomic Age: Trinity atomic bomb test blast on July 16, 1945. Fallout from this “dirty bomb” is still harming Downwinders, who were exposed and are still exposed to the radia
Nuclear Guinea Pigs – Marshall Islanders in the south Pacific were bombarded with 106 nuclear bombs, getting hit by the radiation equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima atomic bombs every day for 12 years. Now, they want their story told a
Uranium Film Festival – Frame from long-suppressed U.S. Government film taken on-the-ground in Nagasaki after A-bomb blast on August 9, 1945. This film footage focuses on the human aspect of nuclear holocaust and is used in films by b
Plutonium + Nazis + Crashes = US Nukes in Space Dangers – When the Antares rocket crashed in 2014 (above), nothing was said about the possibility of plutonium on board , but research reveals that the power source for this style of roc
Texas Nuclear’s Epic Fail – Erica Gray (above), Nuclear Issues Chair of the Sierra Club , provides the damning Nuclear Regulatory Commission “event” (accident) reports online, five days a week. This Week’s Feat
Nuclear Hotseat #500! Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons takes on Force of Law! Lots to celebrate! Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons passes into international law as of Friday, January 22, 2021! An important message (above) to those countr
Nuclear Downwinders Update – Map of U.S. areas hit by fallout from at least three of the 100 atmospheric bomb tests done above ground in Nevada, showing that most of us are truly downwinders. U sed by permission of Richard Miller List
Social Media for Activists : Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero’s Colleen Moore (above) explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Social Media for Activists:
UN Nuclear Weapons Ban – The inside scoop from Ray Acheson , Director of Reaching Critical Will , Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom She was in ALL the rooms where it happened! This Week’s Featured Intervie
Hot nukes – The thermal plume from Indian Point and Lovett power plants in this infra-red image taken in 1998 by scientists from GER/SpectroTech, Inc. The reds indicate discharge temperatures from 1-8 degrees hotter than ambient river
US Nuke Technology Sale to Saudis being Legalized – Attny Terry Lodge Explains. And the full story of how Don’t Bank on the Bomb is helping to defund nuclear weapons producers, one bank account at a time This Week’s Featur
Nuclear Hell: Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow at the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Awards Ceremony, giving her acceptance speech on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons This Week’s Special Commemorative Features: N
Trinity atomic bomb downwinder/activist Tina Cordova continues to fight for acknwlegement, compensation for those harmed by the blast's radiation.
Nuclear Trump and the election with Bob Alvarez. And above, Covid/Nuclear dangers at refueling reactors addressed by Tim Judson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service , and a coalition of more than 80 national anti-nuclear groups. Two of
Covid19/Nuclear – ICAN infographic demonstrating how this year’s nuclear weapons budget could be better applied to Covid 19 supplies and personnel This Week’s Featured Interviews Covid19/Nuclear Connection – Alicia S
Anti-nuclear, anti-war protestors from the Kings Bay Plowshares action. Front row (l-r) – Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy ; Back row: Patrick O’Neill, Stephen Kelly SJ, Mark Colville. This Week&#
Tokyo 2020 Olympics – the Radioactive Truth: Dr. Alex Rosen, Int’l Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Above: Radioactive 2020 Olympics – an alternative logo, more to the point. This Week’s Featured Intervie
NUCLEAR UPDATE: Three Mile Island Alert billboard states the plain and ugly truth about the radioactive waste left behind – that closing the reactors is only the first step in an endless process. Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week
Nuclear weapons – a reminder of what they look like and what they can do. LISTEN HERE: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear weapons – their design, engineering, chances for implementation – that’
Setsuko Thurlow of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) addressing the world upon accepting the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN. RUSSIA! BREAKING & ONGOING: Explosion of a Russian nuclear react
Wilfred Burchett’s front page story about Hiroshima in the Daily Mirror. He was the only reporter who got the story and got it right; U.S. military crackdown on access to Hiroshima made accurate reporting on the nature of radiation an
Green New Deal may be co-opted before it ever starts if it allows nuclear energy. Image Credit: Barnaby Chambers; used with Permission of Fairewinds Energy Education Listen Here: [powerpress] This week’s featured interviews: Green New
Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice, upon her 2015 release from prison on sabotage charges for her peaceful break-in and protest – at age 82 – at the Y-12 “Nuclear Fort Knox” This Week’s Featured Int
Nuclear weapons impact on Hiroshima’s ability to have a medical response after the bomb. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Weapons – With Trump abruptly announcing that the US is going to withdraw from the Intermedia
Gender & Radiation’s depiction of “Reference Man” vs. size of a little girl: all radiation doses are not equal! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Mary Olson is Nuclear Waste Specialist at
San Onofre rally, Songs for SONGS – Filmmaker Adam Salkin Listen Here: [powerpress] San Onofre SPECIAL: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety with the latest bombshell revelation about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadverten
Nuclear war – what one Russian 800 kiloton bomb would do to Washington DC Listen here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Garrett Graff , author of RAVEN ROCK: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itsel
Marker at the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion took place. This Week’s Featured Interview: Filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on their new documentary-in-progress, OFF COUNTRY , which examines lives
Featured Image: Two exhausted warriors – Karen Nickel (l) and Dawn Chapman (r) of Just Moms StL in video mere moments after EPA’s announcement of the West Lake Landfill clean-up plan This Week’s Featured Interview: D
Listen Here: [powerpress] To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of Sister Megan Rice, one of three brave peace activists who broke into high security nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuc
Featured Image: Ce n’est pas une bombe atomique. Listen Here: [powerpress] The University of Chicago produced a month-long orgy of pro-nuclear self-congratulations to celebrate the first atomic pile, the chain reaction which started o
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Martin Fleck, Security Program Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility , spoke with Nuclear Hotseat less than an hour after his attendance at today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearin
Featured image: Prof. Chris Busby (r) with the late Alexey Yablakov, editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment This Week’s Featured Interview: Prof. Chris Busby is a British scientist an
Featured Image: Cartoon by Khalil Bendib, OtherWords.com This Week’s Featured Interview: Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation .
This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn , Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons . Straight
Hurricanes and Nukes: A Special Report Post-Irma and Harvey This Week’s Featured Interviews: Maggie Gundersen is founder of Fairewinds Energy Education , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating the public about
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 Ca
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
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 N
This Week’s Featured Interview: Bruce Gagnon, secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is one of the hearts and minds behind the Keep Space for Peace! week activities, being held right now, O
This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after deliverin
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Dave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the
BREAKING – Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactors to be Shut Down by PG&E… in 8-9 Years. Interviews on next week’s show. This Week’s Featured Interviews: New Zealand anti-nuclear and climate activist Kevin Hester o
Featured Interviews: An audio mosaic of the celebrities, filmmakers, activists, actorvists, fans and media at the first-ever International Uranium Film Festival in Los Angeles, April 27, 2016 . Among the featured interviews and person
This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nancy Foust of SimplyInfo.org , which holds and manages the largest public archive of data on the Fukushima disaster in the world , on how that group finds and vets its info. Includes up to
INTERVIEWS: Prof. Quamrul Haider of Fordham University, a nuclear physicist, authored the op-ed explaining nuclear reactor dangers and calling nukes “ The Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse .” He blasts nuclear reactors buil
INTERVIEWS: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko , Nuclear Hotseat’s “boots on the ground” in Japan, talks extensively about the recent death of Asahi TV news director Masaki Iwaji , whose passing was officially categorized as suicide b
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Nuclear Hotseat #147: BREAKING – Texas OK’s Foreign-owned Nukes; Italy’s Anti-Nuke Powerhouse Massimo Greco – Click here for download link .
FEATURED INTERVIEW: Chuck McCune, veteran disaster preparedness pro, talks about the nuclear aspects to natural disaster, including some projections FEMA never intended to get out to the public. Chuck includes his vision of what
INTERVIEW: Zach “No Cameco” Ruiter, Canadian activist, on the recent Toronto Idle No More-led blockade of a train outside GE-Hitachi’s mid-city uranium processing facility. Plus words of wisdom and strat
IN THIS NUCLEAR HOTSEAT PODCAST: Activists send in their requests to Santa for a nuclear-free 2013; US 2012 nuclear scorecard show nukes a losing proposition everywhere; NRC denies San Onofre hearing; Russia gives us a clue what coul
INTERVIEW : Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 200 and New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation . Learn how every nuclear reactor has “a bomb in the basement,”and how nuclear is just one outpost in the g
INTERVIEW: Dr. Lora Chamberlain of Chicago, founder of Nuclear-Free Illinois, with some practical tips on how to build a state-wide grassroots anti-nuclear network. STORIES: US demands that Japan’s PM Noda retain nuclear… so his
Listen here: Download here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/fbc331c3-4c4f-bf9a-0fae-8e74a74b5bbb.mp3 Interview: Sean Bonner, one of the founders of Safecast, which provides radiation testing devices on the ground in Japan and elsew
Get the inside scoop on this September’s Coalition Against Nukes rally and actions in Washington, D.C. from Dr. Heidi Hutner and Michael Leonardi , long time anti-nuclear activists serving as coordinators for the event. Plus: Japanese
A clearly animated representation of how many blasts we’ve had since the first ones in 1945. Remember, each blast releases radiation into the atmosphere and/or the ground, where it remains until a minimum of ten half-life cycles
An olde commercial from the 1970’s showed Mother Nature getting ticked off at some margarine that tasted to her like butter. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” she warned, and at the stretch of her arms cre