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NH #681: What Youth Want to Know about Nukes + Radioactive Contamination of Food & Water – A Congressional Briefing – Kimberly Roberson Jul 11, 2024

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This Week’s Features: LINKS from this feature: Radioactive Contamination of U.S. Food and Water and What Congress Can Do About It – Upcoming Webinar An interview with Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) and lead organizer for this Congressional briefing. WHERE & WHEN? The briefing will be held via Zoom on Monday, July 15...

NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk Jul 03, 2024

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A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health...

NH #679: Early Xmas for Nukesters – Dangerous ADVANCE Act Guts US Nuclear Oversight, Protections – Diane D’Arrigo Jun 26, 2024

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Fukushima saki? That’s right – get drunk to ignore the radionuclides that might be in your alcohol! Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The ADVANCE Act will gut nuclear safety and keep the Nuclear Navy happy. Hardly anyone on Capitol Hill opposed...

NH #678: 13th ANNIVERSARY! + Hinamoeura Cross – France’s Deadly Nuclear Testing Legacy in French Polynesia Jun 19, 2024

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Welcome to the start of the 14th year of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Hinamoeura Cross of Polynesia and Tina Cordova of New Mexico, both winners of the 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award, embrace in congratulations and commiseration, as both are Downwinders from different parts of the world. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda...

NH #677 – OBSCENE Atomic Museum Shows No Bomb Victims, No Downwinders, Just Nuclear “FUN”<!!!> Jun 11, 2024

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Compare and Contrast: Picture of what the bombing of Hiroshima looked like to this one infant vs. logo outside the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, promising all kinds of radioactive, life-destroying fun! This Week’s Featured Interview: Atomic Museum’s Deputy Director Joseph Kent with his PR handler and Robbie the Robot. The Miller Map The Miller...

NH #676: The Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection, Costs, Fears – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards Jun 02, 2024

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This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activists and concerned citizens about...

NH #675: RECA Held Hostage by Mike Johnson’s Stupid Congress Tricks – Nuclear Victims’ Compensation Act Down to the Wire – Mary Dickson May 29, 2024

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The Miller Map. The path radioactive fallout took from the 100 above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada. Actually, it took three or more nuclear fallout clouds overhead to make it onto this map. Compiled by Richard Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing. This Week’s Featured Interview: PHONE NUMBERS TO CONTACT CONGRESS...

NH #674: The Passing of an Anti-Nuclear Activist Hero: Patti Ameno May 22, 2024

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Patti Ameno (also Patty, Patricia) grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium and plutonium waste...

NH #673: Uranium Film Festival Closes US Tour in Las Vegas, RECA DC Lobbying Update, Godzilla B-Day Marathon + the Passing of Activist Patti Ameno May 15, 2024

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American...

NH #672: “Oppenheimer” Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute May 08, 2024

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Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima...

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