NH #712: Project 2025, Atmospheric Nuclear Testing, Musk & DOGE - Journalist KARL GROSSMAN's Nuclear Warnings

Keystone Photo: President John F. Kennedy signing the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. We haven’t had an atmospheric nuclear test since 1962. BUT – under current threats, atmospheric tests may soon resume. Journalist Karl Grossman spells it out.

Project 2025 fan and implementer Elon “Nuke Mars” Musk making his pro-nuclear bias – and ignorance – painfully obvious.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Project 2025, Musk & DOGE, resumption of atmospheric bomb testing – nuclear dangers dominate our current bad news cycle. To help us understand what this means, we talk with veteran environmental journalist Karl Grossman. He breaks down the threats this current moment holds, gives it an historic context, and walks us through thoughts on how to survive – both as people and a planet.
  
• LINK: Nuclear Hotseat #596 interview with Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project on the baby tooth study that proved the impact of nuclear test fallout radiation on children’s teeth and led to the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Membership card which was sent, along with a lapel button with the gap-tooth child logo, to all children who donated their baby teeth to “Operation Baby Tooth.” Better than the tooth fairy!

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad nuclear world!

Numnutz of the Week:

Oops! Maybe DOGE’s Digital Muskrats should check employment files and job descriptions before firing NNSA’s guardians of nuclear safety. And while they’re at it, make certain they have home email addresses for everyone so they can be contacted to come back in to work ASAP when it’s – HA HA! Just kidding! – shown that their work is essential to US nuclear safety.

International News:

Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead crashed into the Chernobyl containment vessel, blowing a hole in the roof and putting the safety of the entire complex at risk.

Bright yellow-white light coming from the curve of the Chernobyl “New Safe Containment” vessel was damage caused by a Russian drone.