Peace and activism

NH #766: Iran War – Is the Nuclear Threat Real? Col. Ann Wright (Retired), 29 Year Military Vet & Diplomat, Now a Peace Activist, Parses the Issues

NH #766: Iran War - Is the Nuclear Threat Real? Col. Ann Wright (Retired), 29 Year Military Vet & Diplomat, Now a Peace Activist, Parses the Issues

The Iran war and nuclear weapons - 29-year veteran, retired Col. Ann Wright - now a Peace activist - on what's at risk w/this sudden escalation of hostilities.

NH #763: Anti-Nuke Activist in the Belly of the Beast: LASG's Greg Mello at DC Nuclear Deterrence Summit

Greg Mello, Exec Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, reports from "belly of the beast" - DC's annual Nuclear "Deterrence" Summit.

NH #757: SPECIAL - Uplifting Stories of Nuclear Resisters, Heroes, Success! - Jack Cohen-Joppa

Yes, fighting nuclear is an uphill battle - but sometimes we win! Here, for a year-end boost of optimism, hope & community is Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister.

NH #756: Holiday Special - 83-Year Old Peace Hero Nun, Sr. Megan Rice, on her Y12/US “Uranium Fort Knox" Break-in

At 82, Peace Hero nun Sr. Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the US "Fort Knox" uranium stockpile, to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.

NH #755: Japan's 7.6 Quake & Fukushima Radioactive Water Releases - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + Emmy Winning Journalist Helen Young on Activist Media Strategies

Japan's 7.6 earthquake stirred up radionuclides from Fukushima silt into Pacific currents & fish - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones. Activist media strategies from Emmy-winning jo

NH #748: HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - Film Explodes Nuclear "Protection" Myth of US Safety - Activists Get Active - Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group

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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

35th Westheimer Peace Symposium brings together academics, activists, artists to create awareness about need achieve local, national & global justice & peace.

NH #743: SPECIAL! Libbe's play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE a Smash at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center

Wilmington College Peace Resource Center presented Libbe HaLevy’s new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE, to audience raves. PRC uses art to communicate nuclear truths.

NH #732: UK's Sellafield Leaks Orange Acid Mine Waste & Radioactive Water into Irish Sea - Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + ICAN Children's Peace Memorial

Radioactive nuclear waste at UK's Sellafield leaks into Irish Sea, while mine waste dyes it bright orange, w/no sane storage solution in sight. + ICAN's Children's Peace Memorial

NH #719: US Nukes in England?!? 10-Day Lakenheath Peace Camp Opposes US Nuclear Weapons on UK RAF Base - Angie Zelter

Lakenheath Peace Camp opposes US nukes at UK RAF base, sets 10 days of action mid-April to keep US nuclear weapons out of England.

NH #711: Plowshares Peace Activist Susan Crane Out of German Prison + Libbe's Nuclear Play ATOMIC BILL Heads for Production!

Plowshares peace activist Susan Crane, arrested for protesting US nukes at Germany’s Buchel AFB, released from prison. PLUS Peace Resource Center to produce Libbe's play ATOMIC BIL

NH #710: Change Doomsday Clock to Peace Clock - Alice Slater + Big Win for Cleanup at Boeing's Santa Susana Field Lab - Melissa Bumstead

Parents pushing Boeing to clean up radioactive/toxic waste at LA’S Santa Susana Field Lab win a major victory. And Doomsday Clock? How about a Peace Clock? Veteran peace activist A

NH #706: SPECIAL - NUCLEAR NUMNUTZ OF THE YEAR 2024! Plus ICAN Report from Geneva on Nobel Peace Prize and Nuclear Weapons Ban

The annual Nuclear Hotseat Numnutz of the Year award - a look back at 2024 through the lens of Numnutz of the Week at the most boneheaded moves by the nuclear industry & its enable

NH #705: Holiday Special - Peace Hero Sr. Megan Rice on Y12/US “Uranium Fort Knox” Protest Break-In - A Nuclear Hotseat Classic

At 83, Peace Hero nun Sr. Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the US "Fort Knox" uranium stockpile, to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of prison.

NH #703: Nobel Peace Prize to Japanese A-Bomb Survivors + SPECIAL: Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit w/Beatrice Fihn, Dawn Chapman, More!

Nobel Peace Prize went to Japanese A- & H-bomb survivors + Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit gathered 100+ media pros to DC for a 2-day braintrust - & Nuclear Hotseat was there!

NH #695: Japanese A-Bomb Survivors Group Awarded Nobel Peace Prize! + Small Modular Nuclear Reactors/Nuke Weapons Connection, Ramana, Pt. 2

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese A-bomb survivors group. Small modular nuclear reactors/nuke weapons connection - Pt. 2, Physicist MV Ramana from his book, NUCLEAR IS NOT THE

NH #690: The Global Hibakusha - We Are All Nuclear Radiation Downwinders - Prof. Robert "Bo" Jacobs

Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in his book NUCLEAR B

NH #689: Depleted Uranium Weapons in Russia, Ukraine... Israel? Jack Cohen-Joppa of the Nuclear Resister with Verifiable Info

Depleted uranium (DU) weapons - what they are, what they do, who's got them, who's using them? Jack Cohen-Joppa of The Nuclear Resister focuses on Ukraine, Russia, Israel.

NH #685: Hiroshima, Nagasaki 79th Anniversary -"Atomic Cover-Up" film, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN

79 yrs since Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing. Atomic Cover-Up film of bomb aftermath, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

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

Nuclear group messaging coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund; eps from both groups explain. PLUS: ICAN Update.

NH #674: The Passing of an Anti-Nuclear Activist Hero: Patti Ameno

Patti Ameno almost single-handedly forced clean-up of the radioactive NUMEC nuclear fuel processing site in Apollo, PA. She passed on May 10.

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

Time to catch up: Uranium Film Fest N. American tour ends in Las Vegas, RECA lobbying in DC as deadline looms, activist Patti Ameno passes.

NH #672: "Oppenheimer" Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert "Bo" Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute

After a delay of more than one year, Oppenheimer opens in Japan, the only country nuked during war. Protests? Or Silence? Prof. Robert Bo Jacobs

NH #656: Nobel Peace Prize-winning ICAN's New Exec. Director Melissa Parke, Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons

Melissa Parke, head of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on strategies to ally the nuclear & climate crisis movements to abolish nukes.

NH #652: HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Peace Hero Sr. Megan Rice on Y12/US "Uranium Fort Knox" Protest Break-In - A Nuclear Hotseat Classic

At 82, Peace hero nun Sister Megan Rice broke into Y-12, the highly guarded "Fort Knox" of the US uranium stockpile to protest nuclear weapons. Here's her story, straight out of p

NH #650: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Int'l Activists Gather in NYC for UN 2nd Meeting of States Parties on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW)

More than 250 int'l activists meet at UN f/5 days on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons - Libbe HaLevy's exclusive report for Nuclear Hotseat.

NH #645: BOO! Nuclear Halloween! "What Scares Me Most About Nuclear..." - 35 Activists Share Their Nightmares.

Halloween is supposed to be a scary holiday - and what's scarier than nukes? 35 activists weigh in on "What scares me most about nuclear." BOO!

NH #643: International Activism! 2022 Nuclear Free Future Awards Laureates Honored + 2023 Winners Announced!

Highlights from 2022 Nuclear Free Future Awards online event for Laureates Anthony Lyamunda (Tanzania), Malte Gottsche (Germany), Libbe HaLevy (USA), plus announcement of 2023 win

NH #639: Activist Insiders on Diablo Canyon Embrittlement & Palisades Nuclear Restart - Harvey Wasserman, Linda Seeley, Kevin Kamps

Harvey Wasserman hosts hot discussion on CA's Diablo Canyon embrittlement w/Linda Seeley of Mothers for Peace, & Palisades in Michigan’s planned restart w/Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuc

NH #636: Japan Puts World in Radioactive Hot Water: Boycotts, Protests, Fukushima's Tritium Dangers - Fairlie, Deere-Jones, Busby

Protests, demonstrations, boycotts as Japan begins dumping 1.3 million tons of radioactive tritium-contaminated water from Fukushima into the Pacific.

NH #635: Post-Oppenheimer Nat'l Nuclear Activism & Messaging - ReThink Media's Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund's Bonnie Fisk + Fukushima Radioactive Water Dump

Post-Oppenheimer nuclear group messaging is being coordinated through ReThink Media & Ploughshares Fund, plus Japan really is dumping radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific.

NH #632: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Radiation Aftermath - We Are All Hibakusha (A-Bomb Survivors) - Prof. Robert "Bo" Jacobs

Nuclear weapons kill twice - fast by blast, slow by radiation. Robert Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute shows the human side of radiation’s slow nuclear war in NUCLEAR BODIES: Th

NH #612 - "Acceptable" Radiation Exposure Standards & Gender Bias: Mary Olson + In Memorium: Mary Oscko, N. St. Louis Activist

Gender bias behind radiation exposure levels revealed by Mary Olson. St. Louis Coldwater Creek, Bridgeton clean-up activists mourn Mary Oscko.

NH #602: German Prison for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Protester - Nukewatch's John LaForge

U.S. nuclear campaigner John LaForge, about to be sent to German prison for 2020 peaceful protest of nuclear weapons at Buchel Air Force Base.

NH #601: NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Megan Rice on Y12 Protest Break-In & Susi Snyder on at-home protest w/Don't Bank on the Bomb

NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Meagan Rice on 2012 break-in/protest at Y12 Uranium "Ft. Knox" & Susi Snyder w/Don't Bank on the Bomb.

NH #586: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 - Catholic Anti-Nuclear Activists Martha Hennessey, Patrick O'Neill

Catholic Kings Bay Plowshares activists Patrick O'Neill & Martha Hennessey, on their anti-nuclear-weapons actions & subsequent prosecution.

NH #584: Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine Heats Up: Gundersen + Youth Climate Activists March in Wales against Nukes

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen explains dangers at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia site & young Welsh climate activists organize 7-day anti-nuke march.

NH #579: Ukraine Nuclear UPDATE - Reactors at Risk, Greenpeace Chernobyl Study - Edwin Lyman

Nuclear Ukraine - 15 nuclear reactors at risk of becoming dirty bombs if Russia explodes them. Edwin Lyman of Union of Concerned Scientists.

NH #571: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging - Colleen Moore

In this episode, learn the importance of & strategies for using social media messaging to move the nuclear activism into media prominence.

NH #543: Nuclear Disarmament Plowshares Film & Media Strategy Tips - Emmy-winning Journalist Helen Young

Nuclear Disarmament – The Priests, The Nuns and the Bombs , a film by Helen Young. It focuses on the Plowshares movement and two key protests – the break-in at the Y-12 highly enriched uranium stockpile site at Oak Ridge,

NH #538: Baby Teeth Hold Key to Illinois, Michigan Nuclear Reactor Radiation Exposure - Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Baby teeth collected both in the 1950’s and 60’s, compared to baby teeth collected now from area around Dresden nuclear reactors in Illinois and Fermi reactor in Michigan may reveal radiation exposure from nuclear reactor emissi

NH #530: New Mexico Nuclear Activists Brainstorm on How to Stop LANL, WIPP Expansion - Taos Enviro Film Festival

New Mexico Nuclear Activists Brainstorm on a panel on how to stop Los Alamos plutonium pit production and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) expansion and extension, and promote the United Nations Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. (Picture a s

NH #506: Activists Getting Active! Vt. Yankee POWER STRUGGLE film - Robbie Leppzer + Mothers for Peace Rebuts Shameful New Yorker Article - Jane Swanson

Activists Getting Active – Vermont Yankee SHUT IT DOWN Affinity Group protesting at the gates of the now-shuttered nuclear reactor. Frances Crowe , third from left, Hettie Nessle to her left. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Act

NH #505: Texas Nuclear's Epic Fail + Defund Nuclear Weapons Producers - Erica Gray, Susi Snyder

Texas Nuclear’s Epic Fail – Erica Gray (above), Nuclear Issues Chair of the Sierra Club , provides the damning Nuclear Regulatory Commission “event” (accident) reports online, five days a week. This Week’s Feat

NH #504: Nuclear Biden: Disarmament Strategies, Conflict Resolution - Alyn Ware

Nuclear Biden: Disarmament strategies for the new administration and Teaching Peace with Alyn Ware (l), Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament . Pictured here being interviewed by journali

NH #496: Peace and Peace Culture: Hope from Hiroshima Peace Culture Village - Steve Leeper

Peace and Peace Culture : Are they possible? Steve Leeper, Executive Director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Village , explains how conflict resolution on a planetary level is the key to achieving peace… along with a real plan o

NH #495: Nuclear Pacifists Sentenced to Prison: Kings Bay Plowshares 7

Nuclear Pacifists – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, 6 of whom have now been sentenced and imprisoned for their non-violent protest against the Trident nuclear submarines at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia Listen Here: [powerpress] Thi

NH #491: Social Media for Activists w/Colleen Moore, Beyond the Bomb

Social Media for Activists : Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero’s Colleen Moore (above) explains powerful social media techniques for anti-nuclear activists. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Social Media for Activists:

NH #485: BREAKING: Nuclear Football & Trump's Covid + Meds - Garrett Graff + South African Award-Winning Climate Change Activist Makoma Lekalakala

BREAKING: Nuclear Football – Nuclear Launch Codes = Armageddon in a Briefcase It follows the President everywhere… but where was it at Walter Reed? Listen Here: [powerpress] BREAKING: Nuclear Football = Nuclear Launch Codes &#82

NH #473: Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Breach Disaster in Navajo Nation – 40th Anniversary SPECIAL ENCORE: Elders, Activists Speak Out

At the Church Rock 40th anniversary of the spill of 90 million gallons of uranium-contaminated water into Navajo Nation's Puerco River.

NH #470: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary: Anti-Nuclear Livestream Seeks Submissions to Blast Bomb Boosters: PSR's Martin Fleck, UCS's Lilly Adams

This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima Nagasaki 75th Anniversary of the United States dropping atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities — for the first time, activists will provide i nternational online peace and anti-nu

NH #452: Anti-nuclear weapons, Anti-war Catholic Protestors Facing Prison: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Defendants Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey

Anti-nuclear, anti-war protestors from the Kings Bay Plowshares action. Front row (l-r) – Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy ; Back row: Patrick O’Neill, Stephen Kelly SJ, Mark Colville. This Week&#

NH #444: Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Sister Megan Rice of Plowshares

Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice of Plowshares with co-protestors Michael Walli (l) and Gregory Bortje-Obed (r) Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Sister Megan Rice – To celebrate

NH #441: Nuclear Waste Warriors: USA National Activists Gather to Fight for Truth, Sanity in Radioactive Waste Storage

Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the United States gathered in Albuquerque, NM in November to brainstorm, strategize, and coordinate efforts and actions. This Week’s SPECIAL: Nuclear Waste Warriors from around the U.S. came together

NH #427: Radioactive Canada UPDATE: Dr. Gordon Edwards on RadWaste, SNC Lavalin, more + Farewell to 100-year-old Vt. Yankee & Peace Activist Frances Crowe

The late, great Frances Crowe (r), leaving a protest against the Vt. Yankee nuclear reactor. The 100-year-old Peace and Anti-Nuclear activist passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Inter

NH #425: RUSSIA NUKES ITSELF? + Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Peace Activism Today: Tsukuru Fors Lauritsen, Setsuko Thurlow of ICAN

Setsuko Thurlow of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) addressing the world upon accepting the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN. RUSSIA! BREAKING & ONGOING: Explosion of a Russian nuclear react

NH #423: Uranium Mining Disaster - Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Breach - 40th Anniversary SPECIAL, Pt. 2: Navajo Nation Elders & Activists Speak Out on Cancers, Contamination, Slow-Motion EPA Clean-up

Uranium Miner Larry J. King (center) explains the site of the 1979 Church Rock uranium tailings pond breach that dumped more than 94 million gallons of uranium contaminated waste water into the adjacent Puerco River – a nuclear disast

NH #411: Indigenous Nuclear Genocide: Uranium Mining on Native Lands w/International Activists Candyce Paul, Leona Morgan, Ashish Birulee

Indigenous Nuclear activists (clockwise from upper left) Candyce Paul, webinar producers from the UK’s Stop New Nuclear, Ashish Birulee, and Leona Morgan This Week’s Featured Speakers: Indigenous Nuclear Genocide: The star

NH #403: Diablo Canyon Nuclear Dangers: Solartopia's Harvey Wasserman, Mothers for Peace Linda Seeley, Molly Johnson

Diablo Canyon Nuclear activists from 2015 planning event This Week’s Featured Interviews: Harvey Wasserman is a veteran activist, author, and host of Pacifica’s KPFK-FM program Solartopia . He’s a firebrand when it c

NH #402: Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL #2: Activist Misao Redwolf, Journalist Carole Hisasue, Simply Info's Nancy Foust, Nuclear Lecturer Dr. Caitlin Stronell, Filmmaker Tsukuru Fors Lauritzen

Fukushima Anniversary UPDATE SPECIAL: Japanese anti-nuclear activist Misao Redwolf takes a stand at the Friday night Tokyo demonstrations against reactor restarts. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Fukushima Anniversary coverage on Nuc

NH #400: Nuclear Brexit: UK's Hinkley C, Sellafield Nightmares w/Veteran Activist Nikki Clark

As Brexit looms over the UK, there'st another pending boondoggle: the Hinkley Point C proposed new nuclear power plant in Sellafield.

NH #392: Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Who Broke into “High Security” US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice

Anti-nuclear peace nun Sister Megan Rice, upon her 2015 release from prison on sabotage charges for her peaceful break-in and protest – at age 82 – at the Y-12 “Nuclear Fort Knox” This Week’s Featured Int

NH #386: NUCLEAR FIRE SPECIAL: Woolsey Fire's Nuke Origins; Radioactive Smoke? - PRS's Duffield, Mom/Activist Bumstead, Fairewinds' Gundersen, SanO Safety'sGilmore

Nuclear Fire: Helicopter view of the start of the Woolsey fire, on Santa Susana Field Lab Property Photo courtesy Safecast. NUCLEAR FIRE – WOOLSEY’S NUKE ORIGINS SPECIAL: Denise Duffield , Administrator of Physicians for Social

NH #382: San Onofre SPECIAL: Songs for SONGS Protest Rally - PLUS EXCLUSIVE: New Nuclear Bombshell re: SanO RadWaste from Donna Gilmore

San Onofre rally, Songs for SONGS – Filmmaker Adam Salkin Listen Here: [powerpress] San Onofre SPECIAL: Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety with the latest bombshell revelation about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadverten

NH #381: Holtec so-called "interim" Nuke Waste Dump in NM - Legal, Activist Pushback w/Attny Terry Lodge

Holtec so-called “interim” radioactive storage dump, Yucca Mountain, and uranium mining brings out Native tribal protestors at Red Butte in Arizona Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interview: Holtec, the comp

NH #377: Space Force has Nazi Roots?! Bruce Gagnon & Space4Peace

Space Force – will it make the U.S. the Evil Empire? Global Network’s 2018 Keep Space for Peace week poster. This Week’s Featured Interview: SPACE FORCE / EVIL FORCE? Bruce Gagnon , Co-Founder and Secretary/Coordinat

NH #349: Citizen Scientists! Build Monitors, Map Global Radiation! - Sean Bonner of Safecast + Massive Indian Nuke Protests Against Westinghouse Planned: Kumar Sundaram

Featured Image: Safecast workshop in Japan — building radiation monitors This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sean Bonner is co-founder and global director of Safecast , an international, volunteer-centered organization

NH #345: Nuclear's Resurrected Safety Lie of "Duck & Cover" - Bo Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute

Featured Image: Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” – Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body. You can’t “duck and cover” from that. LINK t

NH #339: The Anti-Nuke Peace Nun Who Broke into "High Security" US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice

Listen Here: [powerpress] To celebrate the holidays, a reminder of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of Sister Megan Rice, one of three brave peace activists who broke into high security nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuc

NH #329: Bob Alvarez Decodes N. Korea & Nukes + ICAN Wins Nobel Peace Prize! YAY!

This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn , Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons . Straight

NH #326: Hometown Nuclear Activist Beats Goliath: Patty Ameno vs. NUMEC

Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. This week’s featured interview: Never doubt that a single activist can make all the difference in the world. Patty Ameno grew up in Apollo, Penns

NH #321: Trump's N. Korea WARGASM! Will It Come? A Different Perspective w/Space4Peace's Bruce Gagon & Bo Jacobs in Hiroshima

This Week’s Featured Interviews – North Korea Close-up: Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space . He provides the history of US/N. Korea relations, a context f

NH #318: Post-UN Weapons Ban, Scottish Protest of UK Nukes + Int'l Disarmament Camp - On-Site w/Nikki Clark

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Nikki Clark , a veteran UK nuclear campaigner who co-founded the group South West Against Nuclear, serves as Nuclear Hotseat Special Correspondent , on the ground at the Coulport Nuclear Disarmament Ca

NH #312: 6th Anniversary: HANFORD AGAIN! Plus Anti-Nuke Peace Boat Golden Rule Takes on CA Reactors and Latest Grand Canyon UPDATE

Six years of weekly Nuclear Hotseat and still going strong! Please DONATE to support our work! Listen Here: [powerpress] This Week’s Featured Interviews: Gerry Condon is a national board member of Veterans for Peace and Presiden

NH #307: HANFORD EMERGENCY SPECIAL: Activist Perspective, Suspicions on Tunnel Collapse, Site Lockdown, Radiation Spike, Health Protection

Listen here: [powerpress] HANFORD EMERGENCY SPECIAL – Interviews: Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Julie Wert , r

NH #303: UN Nuke Bomb Ban Blasts Forward + Don't Bank on the Bomb - Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation , was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons and offers some stunning ob

NH #302: St. Louis Nuke Waste Protests Erupt + Radiation in 2020 Olympics Food?

This Week’s Featured Interviews: A focus on Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) and the impact on Japan’s food supply, especially in light of the impact on athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olym

NH #280: SPECIAL: Hiroshima Peace Institute/Global Hibakusha Project w/Bo Jacobs

This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University , where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon&#82

NH #273: USA Nuclear Wild West - Grand Canyon Uranium Mining w/Sierra Club's Gitlin, HEAL Utah's Pacenza on Green River Nukes + BREAKING: Pilgrim Shutdown Protest Arrests - Diane Turco

This Week’s Featured Interviews: BREAKING: After last week’s latest SCRAM emergency shutdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and two others were arrested after deliverin

NH #258: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Rick Wayman on Obama at Hiroshima + Dr. Caldicott on Nuke War

This Week’s Featured Interviews: President Obama visited Hiroshima the same day I spoke w/ Rick Wayman, Director of Programs & Operations at the California-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation . We discuss the image vs. the re

NH #256: WA's Hanford Site Radiological Dangers w/Gerry Pollet, West Lake/EPA Protests

This Week’s Featured Interview: How bad is the radioactive threat of t he Hanford Site in SE Washington State? Learn the facts, worthy of a Halloween horror house, from attorney Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of Ameri

NH #235: SPECIAL ENCORE PRESENTATION: Sister Megan Rice, Peace Co-Activists Freed from Prison

Special Encore Presentation: To celebrate the end-of-year holidays, a reminder from May of one of 2015’s successes — the early release from prison of three brave peace activists who staged the 2012 peaceful protest against nucle

NH #224: Dangers & Protests as USS Reagan Returns to Japan - Goto, Jahnkow

Interviews: Mr. Masahiko Goto , representing the Yokusuka-based anti-nuclear group, Coalition Concerning Homeporting of the Nuclear Powered Carrier Vessel, on a ctivist opposition to the return of the USS Reagan to Japan ; Carol Jahnkow , D

NH #215: Student PSR's Michelle Gin on Millennial Activists

LISTEN HERE: http://chayallc.com/nuclear/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NH-215-Aug.-3-2015-FINAL-NEW-Michelle-Gin-Millennial-Activists.mp3 INTERVIEW: Michelle Gin , Program Coordinator for Student Physicians for Social Responsibility, who holds

NH #208: 4th Anniversary! + Erica Gray on North Anna High Burn-Up Fuel Storage Test, & Diane Turco on Cape Cod Pilgrim Protest March

4TH ANNIVERSARY! NUCLEAR HOTSEAT NOW HEARD IN 58 COUNTRIES* ON 6 CONTINENTS! FEATURED INTERVIEWS: Erica Gray , Nuclear Issues Chair for the Virginia Sierra Club, reveals details of Dominion Power’s plans to experiment with dry c

NH #205: SPECIAL- Sister Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli - Transform Now Plowshares: The Interviews

INTERVIEWS: SPECIAL : Newly freed 85-year old nun, Sister Megan Rice , speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action against the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , which resulted in her

NHt #185: ACTIVIST SPECIAL! VT Yankee Shutdown Celebration, Lawrence Livermore Vigil, Tweet the Pope!

Jon Stewart hasn’t said this on-air yet… but maybe he will in 2015! VERMONT YANKEE ORAL HISTORY MONTAGE Join activists from throughout New England as they celebrate the closure of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Hear fro

NH #180: Dr. Chris Busby on Internal/External Radiation Doses, USS Reagan, Activist Strategies

Jon hasn’t said it yet… but he might! (Thanks to Rainbow Warriors for their help in visualizing.) INTERVIEW: Dr. Chris Busby has been a brilliant, reliable resource on nuclear radiation dangers since long before Fuku

NH #175: SPECIAL - Trial of the 4 Grandmothers for Pilgrim Nuke Protest + Halloween (What's Scarier than Nuclear?))

SPECIAL: Full coverage of last week’s trial of the Four Grandmothers , Cape Cod Downwinders who were arrested for trespass for their Mother’s Day, 2014 protest at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusett

NH #126: Wasserman, Gundersen on TEPCO, SFP4 & Activism NOW

Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Fukushima INTERVIEW: Harvey Wasserman has been an anti-nuclear/pro-alternative energy activist for more than 40 years. He’s author or co-author of a dozen books, writes for the Huffington Post and edit

NH #106: Keegan: Ohio's Davis-Besse follows SanO Lead; MamaBears, Native Elders Protest Grand Canyon Uranium Mining

Davis (R) and Besse (L) at home downwind of the nuclear disaster-in-the-making that bears their names. INTERVIEWS: Michael Keegan , Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes , fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will impact t

NH #88: Bicoastal Activist Special - San Onofre in CA & Climate Change in DC

SPECIAL BICOASTAL REPORT: Interviews with participants in two major actions on opposite coasts. Gary Headrick , Grace Van Thillo and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (via proxy) weigh in on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission&#82

NH #75: Activists Share Gratitude; Nuclear is the Turkey

LISTEN HERE: DOWNLOAD HERE: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/f3b18260-038f-1942-bfd3-a757897d2180.mp3 INTERVIEW: What do we anti-nukers have to be thankful for? Listen to a montage of national activist voices expressin

NH #56: Fukushima Activist Chieko Shiina, Czechs Help "Radiation Refugees"

FEATURED: Report on Fukushima resident and activist Chieko Shiina’s heartrending presentation on current life in Japan and Fukushima, along with information on how to help her start a Children’s Clinic to address pressing health

NH #55 - Oi Restarts in Spite of Protests and Seismic Dangers, Sept. National Anti-Nukes Actions in DC

Get the inside scoop on this September’s Coalition Against Nukes rally and actions in Washington, D.C. from Dr. Heidi Hutner and Michael Leonardi , long time anti-nuclear activists serving as coordinators for the event. Plus: Japanese

NH #54 - The Battle for Indian Point (NYC) and Activist Legal Strategies w/Susan Hito Shapiro

MUST LISTEN! Slammer interview w/ environmental attorney Susan Hito Shapiro on t he battle to shut down Indian Point near NYC, plus some legal strategies applicable for anti-nuke activists throughout the country. Plus: 45,000 Japanese

NH #52 - Effective Anti-Nuke Political Activism w/Irvine City Councilmember Larry Agran

A special interview on the politics of nuclear energy with Irvine City Council member Larry Agran , an outspoken anti-nuke Southern California politician. He offers a picture of how local community activism can move up the political f

NH #35: Arnie Gunderson + Greenpeace = Nuclear Info You Can Believe

Here’s the latest from Arnie Gunderson and Fairewinds, done in conjunction with Greenpeace. Fairewinds was retained by Greenpeace to write a chapter of their newly released report entitled “The Echo Chamber: Regulatory Capture a

NH #32: Vermont Yankee Activist Hattie Nestel

Kick-ass interview w/Hattie Nestle, 73-year-old anti-nuke activist arrested on Feb. 13 at Vermont Yankee nuclear facility; Fukushima 2 in recriticality; NRC licenses two new nuclear reactors for Georgia; Two quakes – 6.2 and 5.5 &#821

NH #30: How Nuclear Activists Can Get on the Radar of Reporters BEFORE March 11

Reporters always need sources and don’t know where to find them. They’ll also take the easiest way out whenever possible. News and journalism have been so degraded since I got my BA in the field that it’s sad t

NH #22: Why I'm an Activist on Nuclear Issues

My life has changed dramatically in the past 6-1/2 months. I’ve gone from ignorant of/in denial about/blind to all issues nuclear-related into a 24/7/365 activist on the issues. I’ve spoken in public, posted videos,

NH #7: San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace file an important challenge to the NRC's relicensing of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor

Last Monday, I had the honor and priviledge of meeting up with several members of San Luis Obispo’s Mothers for Peace (MFP), a focused, brilliant, powerhouse force for a sane, nuclear-free world. Today, I receive an email with their l