Nuclear Hotseat

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...

Nuclear Mass Murder: For anyone who doubts that the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear mass murder, watch: ATOMIC COVER-UP - Award-winning film by Greg Mitchell, free at International Uranium Film Festival until May 29.

This Week's Featured Interviews:

• ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with Robert Jay Lifton) and “Atomic Cover-up.” He has served as chief adviser to several documentaries, including “Original Child Bomb,” screened at Cannes and winner of the top prize at API/Silverdocs,  His current film, ATOMIC COVER-UP, shares film that was shot in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was classified Top Secret for more than 25 years.  It is a testament to the Nuclear Mass Murder caused by the bombs.  ATOMIC COVER-UP was a winner at the 2021 International Uranium Film Festival.  This year, it is again available for viewing through the IUFF until May 29, 2022.  I spoke with director Greg Mitchell on Saturday, May 15, 2021.
  
  
• Blast the money out of nuclear weapons!  Nuclear divestment means institutional nuke investments are going down — and Susi Snyder explains how any one of us can join that movement. She is project lead for the PAX No Nukes Project and coordinator for the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and campaign.  Susi’s an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades of experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights.
  
  LINK to the 2020 Global Report on the Financing of Nuclear Weapons Producers HERE.
  To find out which companies invested in nuclear weapons in 2021, CLICK HERE.

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors and the bilking of public funds. 

Links:

• On Fukushima Beach: 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZWmW91XEs0

• If You Love This Planet - Dr. Helen Caldicott: 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7FjgBBQFmGs

This Week’s Featured Interviews: ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with Robert Jay Lifton) and “Atomic Cover-up.” He has...

Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott being interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy at Symposium in N. St. Lewis on the radioactive Bridgeton waste dump.

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 of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel-winner Linus Pauling, she is at the root of much of the anti-nuclear work being done today.  Here in Pt. 2 of our interview, she sets her sights on a 1-on-1 talk with President Biden, VP Harris, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and a joint session of Congress on what nuclear war actually would do.  It nearly worked w/Reagan; maybe this time for sure? We spoke on Monday, April 25, 2022.
• LINK: Dr. Helen Caldicott Foundation

Tweet of the Week (to copy and paste):

#Nobel Prize nominee Dr Helen #Caldicott spoke w/Reagan & almost got nuclear weapons banned. Now she wants to talk w/#Biden #Harris #McConnell #Congress. It’s only the future that’s at stake. RT until someone makes that happen!

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):Links: 

• International Uranium Film Festival - runs May 19-29, more thn 40 films available online for free. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YRSqaPtMg

John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, story on Energy Utilities - including well-placed slams at VC Summer nuclear boondoggle in South Carolina and malfeasance by Pacific Gas and Electric in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8cdQylSqg&t=1s

Nukes in Space , the powerful, award-winning 1995 documentary, exposes the U.S. government’s push to deploy nuclear technology in space. Winner of the Worldfest Gold Award, Houston, International Film and Video Festival First Prize Documentary Award at the 1995 Long Island Film Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVPeDm27Rs

War and Peace (Jang Aur Aman), a 2002 Indian documentary film directed by Anand Patwardhan that covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998,  nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests., the ill-effects of the Indian test on the surrounding population and the reactions to the test among the government and the public.

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...

Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott (r) interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat's Libbe HaLevy next to the Bridgeton landfill in N. St. Louis.  This was during a symposium she spoke at, "The Atoms Next Door."   Back row: (l-r) unknown photographer,                      Mali Martha Lightfoot, Brian DeLear, Kay Dray, Karen Nickel

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 of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.  Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel-winner Linus Pauling, she is at the root of much of the anti-nuclear work being done today. We talked for well over an hour, which is why our interview will be presented in two parts. We spoke on Monday, April 25, 2022.
• LINK:    Dr. Helen Caldicott Foundation

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

A snack that needs to be exploded in order to be eaten - what "better" way for two nuke-heads to share numnutzery?

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and British prime minister Boris Johnson
plight their nuclear troth over a bag of Fukushima popcorn! 
Now with a couple of Numnutz! 

Links:

• The Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative is looking for a short-term campaign manager, to start immediately and work for 8 weeks on a mini-campaign to educate people about the current nuclear threat and elevate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. They can be located anywhere in the US.  CONTACT:  https://nuclearbantreaty.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Campaign-Mgr-position.pdf
• Why the Debate over Russian uranium Worries  U.S. Tribal Nations - NYTimes.
• Hiroshima man’s anime sheds light on Fukushima nuclear project. -  The package of an anime DVD and a 16-page, A4-size picture book costs 2,000 yen ($16).  For more details, visit the production committee’s website.

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...

Nuclear War on Film: Screen shot of the moment the nuclear fireball hit the people of Lawrence, Kansas.  Taken from ABC-TV movie THE DAY AFTER, which is the subject of the documentary TELEVISION EVENT by Jeff Daniels.

This Week's Featured Interview:

The 1983 TV movie THE DAY AFTER depicted the start of a nuclear war and the aftermath of a  bomb strike on Lawrence, Kansas.  In those pre-CGI-effects days, the devastation of the fireball was presented in such graphic detail (see: above) that it changed the international discussion on the "survivability" of a nuclear war.

Now the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) will present a full-length documentary on THE DAY AFTER entitled TELEVISION EVENT.   Produced and directed by Jeff Daniels, TELEVISION EVENT chronicles not only the making of the film, but what it took to get it made, how it impacted international politics, and motivated a generation to oppose nuclear war and weapons.  TELEVISION EVENT is nominated for Best Featured Documentary, which will be announced on May 29, closing night of the IUFF.  The film will be available for viewing, at no charge, as of May 19.  Go to International Uranium Film Festival for details. 

For now, if you want to know about the movie that TELEVISION EVENT is about, here's a LINK to the attack segment from THE DAY AFTER:

https://youtu.be/7VG2aJyIFrA

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Nuclear weapons as a growth industry???

LINKS:

• Steve Leeper of PeaceInstitute.org - War Culture vs. Peace Culture
• Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) documentary, In the Dark of the Valley, now streaming of Peacock TV. 
• Navajo Nation to federal agency: Remove uranium contamination from former mill site
• A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived.
• U.S.-Canada board urges more consistent rules for dismantling old Great Lakes nuclear plants
• Huntington’s nuclear secret: The Mystery of the Reduction Pilot Plant

Nuclear War on Film: Screen shot of the moment the nuclear fireball hit the people of Lawrence, Kansas. Taken from ABC-TV movie THE DAY AFTER, which is the subject of the documentary TELEVISION EVENT by Jeff Daniels. This Week’s Featured Interview: The 1983 TV movie THE DAY AFTER depicted the start of a nuclear war...

NH #566: Russian Uranium Not Sanctioned - Why?  Linda Pentz Gunter

This Week's Featured Interview:

• Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist, as well as its media and development director. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets. She brings a clarity and precision to all her reporting, with specific insights into international angles on nuclear issues. To find out more on one under-represented nuclear aspect of the Russian war on Ukraine, I spoke with Linda Pentz Gunter on Thursday, April 21, 2022
• Talking Points from Beyond Nuclear for tweets, op-eds, email, more!  

Linda Pentz Gunter
Beyond Nuclear

Hot Story of the Week:

New feature with Linda Pentz Gunter focusing on one big story.  This week: the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in France and what it means to the French pro-nuclear stance. 

Tweet of the Week:

• COPY AND PASTE:  Russia still ships uranium-filled nuclear fuel rods to reactors around the world - no limits. If US has sanctions against Russian oil, gas & coal, why do we not sanction their uranium? Why is the nuclear industry exempt? And who decided?

Links:

• “Clean” Nuclear is a Fraudulent Scam," Trading Standards Told, on Anniversary of Chernobyl - UK
• Four unanswered questions about the intersection of war and nuclear power - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• " class="text-nh underline hover:text-nh-dark" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Netflix series - MELTDOWN: Three Mile Island, starting May 4 for one month only:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nAOIH8HRdDo