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 Project 2025, atmospheric tests - and their attendant health-destroying radioactive fallout - may soon resume. Journalist Karl Grossman spells it out.

This Week’s Featured Interview Activists from around the world gathering to demonstrate against U.S. nuclear weapons housed at the Buchel Air Force Base in Germany (Susan Crane far right, Nukewatch’s John LaForge behind Nukewatch banner in red hat) Libbe’s Play ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE Coming to Wilmington Peace Resource Center in Ohio! Numnutz...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Physicist and Activist Lynda Williams – a foe of nuclear greenwashing Lynda Williams is a Hawaii-based physicist, activist, writer and performance artist – AKA The Physics Chanteuse. She battles against nuclear greenwashing (aka lying) with public presentations, lectures, theatre, and a ferocious activist spirit. Lynda is bringing her new one woman...

Fukushima 12th Anniversary: Voices from Japan, On the Ground w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko This Week’s Special Featured Interview: Beverly Findlay-Kaneko provides an “on-the-ground in Japan” report on the current situation faced by people living with the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Beverly lived in Yokohama, Japan, for 20 years until March 2011, after the...

Holtec Threatens Radioactive Water Dump from Pilgrim Nuclear into Cape Cod Bay & from Indian Point into Hudson River – Diane Turco, Manna Jo Green This Week’s Featured Interviews: Big nuclear decommissioning companies are planning to release radioactive tritium-contaminated water into major bodies of water. We usually think of this in connection with Japan, where...

Cover photo: Toxic cloud from “controlled burn” of toxic materials at train derailment Advice from Parallel Disasters: East Palestine Toxic Train wreck, Meet Nuclear Toxic “Train wreck” – Kevin Kamps This Week’s Featured Interview: Link from interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter It’s a year since Russia invaded Ukraine and new developments...

Soaring Child Thyroid Cancer Rates from Fukushima – Joseph Mangano LINKS from Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant escaped disaster during last week’s major earthquake,  but continuing the project is reckless. Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): UK funnels billions into building new “improved” nukes that...

Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Trickery – San Onofre, Three Mile Island UPDATE This Week’s Featured Interviews: LINKS for San Onofre Information mentioned in interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Building small modular reactors; nuclear powered rockets to Mars; nuclear power plants on the Moon — They’re all Really Bad Ideas. So why do governments insist on...

Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group takes on Nuclear Deterrence Summit Warmongers! This Week’s Featured Interview Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter A year into the war in Ukraine, a nuclear power plant disaster has only been averted due to luck. So why is Ukraine ordering more nuclear reactors? Numnutz of the...

NH #605: Nuclear Energy = Nuclear Weapons – Change the Arguments! Alfred Meyer Links from Interview: Doomsday Clock – 90 Seconds to Midnight Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): If you’re a nuclear weapons producer/promoter and have all the money in the world – the world that you are positioning yourself to take...

John Wayne: Downwinder? New Documentary DOWNWIND on U.S. Nuke Radiation Poisoning of St. George, Utah – Director Mark Shapiro Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Bad bad bad bad vibrations! Vogtle 3 in Georgia, one of only 2 new reactors under construction in the US, has been delayed yet again, this time for...

NRC Cops Out on Planned In-Person Comanche Peak License Meetings – Citizens Call for Congressional Hearings to Investigate – SEED Coalition’s Karen Hadden LINKS from the interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story – Linda Pentz Gunter What could be more numnutz than substituting coal plants for nuclear ones? But this new scheme, Coal to Nuclear, is...

German Prison for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Protester – Nukewatch’s John LaForge This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from the Featured Interview: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter: After repeated invitations to contribute her “expertise in the space” to a conference promoting small modular reactors, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter decided to tell them what she would say, given...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Majia Nadesan’s LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Like pie? You won’t enjoy this one and it’s nothing to be thankful for. Links:

NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Megan Rice on Y12 Protest Break-In & Susi Snyder w/Don’t Bank on the Bomb This Week’s Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder and Don’t Bank on the Bomb

CELEBRATION! 600th Episode + Libbe HaLevy wins Int’l Nuclear Free Future Award! Nuclear Hotseat producer/host Libbe HaLevy receives Nuclear Free Future Award for Education! As we celebrate 600 episodes with this week’s retrospective, Libbe HaLevy has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Nuclear Free Future Foundation Award for Education. According to the German...

Nuclear Corruption Panel, POWER STRUGGLE Film This Week’s Special Feature: Panel discussion was followed by a Q&A with viewers. Thanks to the producing efforts of the Museum of Political Corruption, spearheaded by Veronica Medina-Matzner and Bruce Broter. If you’re reading this before December 18, 2022, and would like to watch POWER STRUGGLE at no charge, go...

RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island – New Film by Heidi Hutner Premieres This Week’s Special Feature: Libbe HaLevy Moderating Panel from Disrupt and Museum of Political Corruption on Power Struggle Film On International Anti-Corruption Day, the Museum of Political Corruption honors the fight of all of those who stand up against corruption, with...

BIG NEWS! Nuclear Hotseat is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit! Your donations are now tax-deductible. More info coming – stay tuned! More Radioactive Contamination Found in Ohio Homes Near PORTS Plant – Prof. Michael Ketterer Links from the Interview: Numnutz of the Week (For Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness) 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl interviews Rafael Grossi of the...

Nuclear Reactor Radiation Health Impact on Kids – New Baby Tooth Study – Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano This Week’s Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano is a health researcher who has served Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) since 1989. Mangano is author or co-author of 33 medical journal articles on radiation health, and is the author of...

Nuclear Arctic Ice Melt from Radiation Dangers: Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones This Week’s Featured Interview: Given the pro-nuclear doubletalk at COP 27, which is drowning out the voices of actual informed activists, it’s important for us to understand the consequences of the climate catastrophe already in evidence around the world – and how much of...

Never Ending Three Mile Island Decommissioning UPDATE: Eric Epstein Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert with Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy. At TMI 40th anniversary commemoration, 2019. This Week’s Featured Interview: Eric Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and founded in 1977. TMIA monitors...

“If You Love This Planet” – Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Oscar-Winner on Medical Impact of Nuclear War This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: Dr. Helen Caldicott has probably done more to make the public around the world aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear war, nuclear reactors and the entire nuclear fuel chain than any other...

Nuclear’s Ticking Doomsday Clock – Rachel Bronson of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists This Week’s Featured Interview: Rachel Bronson is President and CEO of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the scientists behind setting the Doomsday Clock.  She explains where that image and concept came from, who decides what time to set the clock, and the...

SPECIAL PROPOSAL! #Nuclear80 The 2025 Campaign to Reclaim the Nuclear Narrative 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Atomic Age and all the ensuing nuclear madness covered by the show every week. We already know that the media is going to make a “thing” out of this, because it’s an anniversary that...

Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them: Ray Acheson This Week’s Featured Interview: Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, we’re revisiting an interview we...

Uranium Mine to become Int’l Radioactive Waste Dump? Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Fights White Mesa Mill This Week’s Featured Interviews: Sarah Fields is Program Director of Uranium Watch, and has worked on uranium and other nuclear issues for over 20 years. We discuss how the White Mesa Uranium Mill is being allowed to process radioactive...

Nuclear History Education for Kids This Week’s Featured Interview: Illinois has become the first state in the nation to mandate the teaching of Asian American History for grades K-12. The intent is to combat hate crimes and racial discrimination against Asian Americans, which grew exponentially during the Covid 19 pandemic. As nuclear plays a major...

Increased Child Leukemia Rates Near Nuclear Reactors: Dr. Ian Fairlie This Week’s Featured Interview: Child leukemia rates near nuclear reactors have been shown to increase in 2014 report by Dr. Ian Fairlie. He is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment living in London UK and has studied radiation and radioactivity at least since the Chernobyl accident in...

NH #587: U.S. “Nuclear Survival” Propaganda & the Real Nuclear Nightmare – Karl Grossman This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: HOW TO GET INVOLVED:To learn about and get involved with the Initiative of the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative to get media to report on the Treaty for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, CLICK...

NH #586: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – Catholic Anti-Nuclear Activists Martha Hennessey, Patrick O’Neill This Week’s Featured Interview: The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia on April 4th, 2018, and carried out a symbolic act of protest against nuclear...

Diablo Canyon Nuclear: CA Legislators Blow it – but It’s Not Over This Week’s Feature: When the California legislature voted on August 31, 2022 to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility open for a minimum of another 5 years – which will probably end up being 20 – this setback wasn’t for lack of evidence...

NH #584: Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine Heats Up: Gundersen + Youth Climate Activists March in Wales against Nukes This Week’s Featured Interviews: Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education joins us again to explain the latest rounds of nuclear Russian roulette – what dangers got ramped up at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine over the past week....

NH #583: New Ukraine Nuclear Risks – Arnie Gundersen + Newsom’s $1.4 BILLION Diablo Canyon Trickery Meets Ratepayer Rage This Week’s Featured Interviews: Arnie Gundersen reveals all the different ways that the Ukraine Nuclear reactors in Zaporizhzhia can be compromised to release more radioactivity than 60 Chernobyls. Gundersen is a licensed nuclear reactor operator with...

NH #582: New Radiation Training on How Risks are Worse for Little Girls, Women – Mary Olson, Cindy Folkers This Week’s Featured Interview: One of the most misunderstood aspects of nuclear danger is the impact of radiation on our health. Today’s two interviewees not only are in the forefront of exposing the radiation lies that...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): French household goods made from radioactive metal – what could go wron Links:

NH #581: Hiroshima, Nagasaki Second Generation: Prof. Yuki Miyamoto, Daughter of Atomic Survivor This Week’s Featured Interview: Hiroshima-born Yuki Miyamoto is a second generation Hibakusha – daughter of an atomic bomb survivor.  Her mother was in Hiroshima one mile from the epicenter of the bombing, yet survived it with what seemed like little physical damage…...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a done deal? Inevitable once the U.S. produced the bomb? Or were there pressures to avoid unleashing a nuclear holocaust on Japan, and if so, how did they play out behind the scenes in 1945? Author and award-winning filmmaker Greg Mitchell recounts his...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Ukraine Nuclear dangers – how many and how bad? This week, we learn how bad it could get from Edwin Lyman. He is a physicist and the Director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists. He specializes in nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and nuclear power safety. Lyman has...

This Week’s Featured Story: The NYC Emergency Management Office released a bombshell last week – a video PSA on how to survive a nuclear attack! …and it has generated a firestorm of its own. It’s the 1950’s laughable Duck and Cover drill, repackaged in all seriousness for hip Millennials: Featured Interview: To counter the disinformation...

This Week’s Featured Interview: “RADIOPHOBIA???” – Prof. Majia Nadesan rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including...

This Week’s Featured Interview – A Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Chernoby Truth, World Health Org. Lies Revealed – Alison Katz is a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. The international watchdog group draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl and, later, Fukushima.  The...

This Week’s Featured Interview: It’s a common talking point among those who oppose nuclear that the impact of uranium mining in particular has come down disproportionately on indigenous people around the world.  But in reality, what does that look like?  And what does it do to those who have traditionally lived close to the land...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tritium Radiation Lies and planned radioactive water releases at Fukushima in Japan and Pilgrim nuclear reactor at Cape Cod in Massachusetts: Dr. Ian Fairlie is a London-based radiation biologist and independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment.  After receiving a degree in radiation biology from Bart’s Hospital in London and doctoral...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Madness! Ohio House Bill 434 passed the Ohio House on March 23, 2022. This bill authorizes the creation of a new Ohio body, called the Ohio Nuclear Development Authority, which would be given the go ahead to do research and development on new nuclear reactors, defining them as “advanced.” This...

This Week’s Special Feature: In 2015, Dr. Helen Caldicott brought together world experts for two day Symposium on Possible Nuclear Extinction. Meeting at the New York Academy of Science, experts in nuclear policy, politics, the impact of radiation on life, nuclear winter, weaponry joined forces to speak on the exact nature of the nuclear dangers...

This Week’s Featured Interview Part 2 of a talk with Doug Brugge and Aaron Datesman, authors of a brilliant new book, Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change. Last week was Part 1. This week, we focus on new information about the health dangers of so-called “permitted” radiation releases from operating nuclear reactors in...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Activism and Social Media Messaging:  Colleen Moore is Digital Engagement Manager for Beyond the Bomb and Global Zero.  She creates content to promote the message of eliminating nuclear weapons and has experience in campaigning for justice and peace issues, including: ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen; promoting human...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books 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.” He has...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear icon Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and for six decades has been one of the world’s most important anti-nuclear advocates. She revived or founded several associations, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Caldicott is dedicated to opposing the use...