Nuclear Hotseat

Children of Atomic Veterans  - DNA damage, penile cancer,
and the message:   Don't have kids!
The American devastation of military personnel from the atomic bomb test radiation
that devastated the Marshall Islands and its people. 

• Children of Atomic Veterans focuses on medical and genetic issues in those whose parents - primarily fathers - were exposed to nuclear radiation during the atomic bomb tests in the south Pacific 1946-1962.  Victoria Moore is one such child.  Her father was head of communications for the tests and was aboard ship, in proximity, for anywhere from 20-40 nuclear explosions.  She tells the story of his penile cancer and the veil of secrecy that hid his many illnesses, as well as their cause.  Then she explains how her father's radiation exposure changed what should have been the trajectory of her own life.  Gripping information, along with how to contact the group and register for its upcoming initiatives.Contacts:
  Website:  Childrenofatomicveterans.org
  EMAIL:  [email protected]
  TWITTER:  @children_of_atomic_veterans

Children of Atomic Veterans co-founder Victoria Moore (l)
interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy

When are the facts of radiation protection not of interest to an international group that claims to have as its focus and purpose radiation protection?  Well, you'd have to ask the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), which doesn't see a connection between radiation impact as measured on adult men and radiation impact as measured on little girls - our genetic future.  

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!

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban:  Ray Acheson is Director of the Disarmament Programme of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).  She has been involved in the campaign to create, promote and enact the United Nations Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons since its inception in 2010, and has been in almost all of the "rooms where it happened."  Here, she explains what it took to formulate, strategize, pass and now implement the Treaty, which has been ratified and enters into force of law on January 22, 2021. 

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest women's peace organization in the world. For a little background, in 1915, women from countries at war with each other and from neutral countries came together in The Hague to discuss solutions to the causes and violence of World War I. They founded WILPF as an organization with a mandate to challenge militarism, patriarchy, and capitalism as the roots of war and violence. That’s what they’re still doing.

• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons or ICAN - the 2017 Nobel Peace-Prize winning organization behind the UN Treaty. 
• ICAN Cities Program, where you can learn how to get your city to endorse the Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons.
• ICAN Universities Program where you can learn how to get your university to endorse the Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons.
• Reaching Critical Will Resources

Ira Flatow of NPR's Science Friday never met a nuke he didn't love... and man, did he ever get this one wrong!  Which leads us to...

Paul Gunter Director of the Reactor Oversight Project for Beyond Nuclear.

• Fracking Has a Radioactive Problem - Popular Mechanics article
• 90% of Sellafield's Discharged Plutonium Wastes are on the "Cumbirian Mud Patch" Below Which Lies the Coal Mine Plan