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Nuclear Hotseat
Nuclear Hotseat

Contributors & Team

Nuclear Hotseat is Libbe HaLevy’s show, and she doesn’t do it alone. Regular contributors bring their reporting to the show, and a small team keeps it running. Looking for the experts we interview? See our guests.

Contributors

The reporters you hear on the show week after week.

Alistair Burnett

Alistair Burnett

The ICAN Update, monthly

Head of Media, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

Alistair brings listeners the monthly ICAN Update: news on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the worldwide campaign to ban the bomb.

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Linda Pentz Gunter

Linda Pentz Gunter

The Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story

Hot Story Correspondent, Beyond Nuclear

Linda takes a nuclear story from the headlines and digs into what it means, bringing the facts, the context, and a sharp edge to the Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story.

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Jack Cohen-Joppa

Jack Cohen-Joppa

The Nuke Resister, monthly

Nuke Resister Correspondent, The Nuclear Resister

Each month Jack reports on people taking nonviolent action against nuclear weapons and nuclear power around the world, and what happens to them for it.

Recent segments

The Team

The people who produce, promote, and maintain Nuclear Hotseat and this website.

Libbe HaLevy

Libbe HaLevy

Host & Producer

Award-winning host and producer of Nuclear Hotseat, which she has created and produced every week since June 2011. A Three Mile Island survivor, TEDx speaker, and Amazon bestselling author of Yes, I Glow In The Dark!, she has built one of the world’s largest independent audio archives on nuclear power, weapons, and radiation.

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Carly Baker

Carly Baker

Digital Media Producer

Manages Nuclear Hotseat’s content and social media. She coordinates the weekly publishing workflow and the show’s presence across platforms, and helps shape its visual identity and brand.

Frank Melli

Frank Melli

Media & Promotion Advisor

Melli Productions

A television and media professional, Frank advises Nuclear Hotseat on promotion, audience growth, and strategy, bringing a broadcaster’s eye to how the show reaches and grows its listeners.

Jeremiah Coakley

Jeremiah Coakley

Principal Security Architect

FEDLIN

Jeremiah leads security at FEDLIN, part of Continuit Web, the joint venture that built and runs nuclearhotseat.com. The team turned 15 years of episodes into a fast, searchable archive with its own audio hosting and newsletter, on infrastructure the show controls.