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NH #751: SPECIAL: Powerful Navajo Nation Nuclear Films – Int’l Uranium Film Festival at Window Rock Nov 21, 2025

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This Week’s SPECIAL Episode on the International Uranium Film Festival in Navajo Nation The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) came to Window Rock, the capital of Navajo Nation, for the fourth time to present films focusing on all dangers of the nuclear fuel chain, with a special emphasis on uranium mining. Fourteen films over two...

NH #750!: SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Nuclear Weapons, uh, Energy – Tom Clements, SRS Watch + 750 NH Episodes! Nov 11, 2025

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Tom Clements has been the director of Savannah River Site Watch, a public interest organization in Columbia, South Carolina, since 2014. SRS Watch monitors US Department of Energy management of weapon-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, and clean-up of high-level nuclear waste, with a focus on the Savannah River Site. While in...

NH #749: How Anti-Nuclear Icon Dr. Helen Caldicott Almost Saved the World from Nuclear Weapons Nov 06, 2025

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NOTE: I needed to go in for a medical procedure this week (don’t worry; I’m fine) and was unable to produce a new episode. Given that President Trump has threatened to resume nuclear testing – with no specifics of whether that’s atmospheric or underground explosions – I think this is a good opportunity to look...

NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Film Explodes Nuclear “Protection” Myth of US Safety – Activists Get Active – Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group Oct 30, 2025

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A House of Dynamite by Katherine Bigelow This Week’s Featured Interview: A new film, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, by Oscar-winning director Katherine Bigelow, follows what would happen in the 18 minutes following discovery of a nuclear missile aimed at the United States. It exposes vulnerabilities to our purportedly 100% protection from incoming nukes and creates...

NH #747: Nat’l Cancer Study of Residents Near Nuclear Reactors MUST take place BEFORE New Ones Built – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano Oct 22, 2025

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Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, head of Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) This Week’s Featured Interview: Such a national study of the health risks posed by existing reactors should: LINK: Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power – original article by Joseph Mangano and the...

NH #746: PEACE! How do we get there? Artists, Activists, Academics Oppose Nuclear at the Westheimer Peace Symposium at 35th Wilmington College Peace Resource Center Oct 15, 2025

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This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: This year’s 35th annual Westheimer Peace Symposium was based on the theme “Practicing Art, Practicing Nuclear Abolition” It was presented in conjunction with the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center Academic conference: Archives as Witness from Monday, September 29 through Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. I attended...

NH #745: Nuclear Funeral for LA’s Santa Susana Field Lab Radiation Clean-up + Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Nightmare Continues Oct 09, 2025

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Tombstone for Protest “Funeral” for Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up. (Photo Credit, Melissa Bumstead) Keystone (cover) photo credit: Sean Muniz via Snappr This Week’s Featured Interview: The long-promised clean-up of radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab site near downtown Los Angeles is being killed by Boeing & CA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. Mothers from Parents...

NH #744: The Deadly Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards + Halloween Preview Sep 30, 2025

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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 #743: SPECIAL! Libbe’s play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE a Smash at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center Sep 24, 2025

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Ollie Basta, playing the lead role of podcaster/activist Jessie Keever, addresses a rally at the United Nations at the climax of ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE This Week’s Two-Part Very Special Feature – The Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College and the Play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE: Ollie Basta as podcaster/activist Jessie...

NH #742: SPECIAL: Nuclear NOT the Solution to Climate Change – Physicist M. V. RAMANA Sep 16, 2025

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This Week’s Featured Interview: CLICK on book cover to purchase from Amazon. Beyond Nuclear Article on M.V. Ramana’s Book: NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

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