NH #726: Nuclear Football in Nagasaki Killing Field – Greg Mitchell’s new film THE ATOMIC BOWL + Linda Pentz Gunter Parses the President’s Nuclear Onslaught

Greg Mitchell (l) and Libbe HaLevy (r)

This Week’s Featured Interview:

  • Director Greg Mitchell is an award-winning journalist and author of a dozen books on United States politics and history of the 20th and 21st centuries, 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.” His film, ATOMIC COVER-UP, released in 2021, won multiple awards, including the Best Archival Documentary award from the International Uranium Film Festival. His latest film, THE ATOMIC BOWL: Football at Ground Zero — and Nuclear Peril Today, is about a football game played in Nagasaki in front of a bombed out middle school, where US military members tossed the pigskin only five months after the atomic bombing that killed more than 70,000 people. It’s currently being screened at the IUFF in Rio and will be released on PBS in July.

    I spoke with Greg Mitchell on April 18, 2025.

Links from Interview:

The Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter

Trump “unleashes” five nuclear executive orders that while reckless and dangerous are also total fantasy.

The Nuclear Resister w/Jack Joppa-Cohen

There’s something about a train… and in the early 1980s, anti-nuclear activists from coast-to-coast turned that truth into a successful campaign that literally drove the bombs off the rails.

Links:

NH #726 – Gordon Edwards – Chalk River – Translation fron French ArticleDownload