Nuclear Hotseat hosted by Libbe HaLevy

Sister Megan Rice getting a well-earned hug upon her release from prison for her non-violent break-in to the Y12 “U.S. Uranium Fort Knox” to protest nuclear weapons. She served more than two years in prison. This Week's Peace Special Year-End Interviews: Sister Megan Rice Susi Snyder: What You CAN Do to Help De-Fund Nuclear Weapons...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Here’s This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day.  She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Here’s This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day.  She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Zoomathon interview with Prof. Steven Starr Steven Starr LINKS: This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Joseph Mangano Joseph Mangano and RPHP LINKS: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: Will a Supreme Court ruling mean the end of Democratic commissioners at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission? Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):...

Dr. Ian Fairlie speaking at Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Symposium: Fukushima Two Years Later: NYC – March 11-12, 2013 This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Ian Fairlie, UK-based radiation expert, compiled statistics from 60 international studies done on leukemia rates for children living within 5 kilometers/3 miles of a nuclear reactor. His shocking results – all supported...

Filmmakers and life partners Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle, who along with Morgan Peterson directed the award-winning film SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome This Week's Feature: Some weeks, it's personal. It is with great sadness that this week’s Nuclear Hotseat commemorates and memorializes a fierce, gentle anti-nuclear warrior who spent decades filming protests, meetings,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This Week's Featured Interview: CLICK on book cover to purchase from Amazon. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness)

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)

PERSONAL NOTE: Portrait of a playwright/podcaster in Peak Happiness with the stage of her new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy here. I'm in Ohio at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center (PRC) for the world premiere staged reading of my play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. It’s a featured...

PERSONAL NOTE: Portrait of a playwright/podcaster in Peak Happiness with the stage of her new play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy here. I'm in Ohio at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center (PRC) for the world premiere staged reading of my play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. It’s a featured...

William L. Laurence – “Atomic Bill” (l) – and J. Robert Oppenheimer (r) at the Trinity Site, one month after detonation of the first atomic bomb. Libbe’s Play: ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUEPremieres Sept. 9 at Wilmington Peace Resource Center Next Tuesday, September 9, my play on media manipulation at the dawn of the...

William L. Laurence – “Atomic Bill” (l) – and J. Robert Oppenheimer (r) at the Trinity Site, one month after detonation of the first atomic bomb. Libbe’s Play: ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUEPremieres Sept. 9 at Wilmington Peace Resource Center Next Tuesday, September 9, my play on media manipulation at the dawn of the...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Cindy Folkers is Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, with close to 20 years experience. She co-authored with Dr. Ian Fairlie the book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION. Here, she breaks down what’s wrong with the recent nuclear Executive Orders, including the mandate to...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Cindy Folkers is Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, with close to 20 years experience. She co-authored with Dr. Ian Fairlie the book, THE SCIENTISTS WHO ALERTED US TO THE DANGERS OF RADIATION. Here, she breaks down what’s wrong with the recent nuclear Executive Orders, including the mandate to...

United Nations report on the generational impact of nuclear radiation on women and children, written by Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project and Dr. Amanda M. Nichols. This Week's SPECIAL Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is...

United Nations report on the generational impact of nuclear radiation on women and children, written by Mary Olson of Generational Radiation Impact Project and Dr. Amanda M. Nichols. This Week's SPECIAL Featured Interview: We all accept as proven scientific and medical fact that human exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and their production is...

This Week’s Featured Interview: ICAN Executive Director Melissa Parke in Hiroshima. Photo: ICAN / Takeo Nakaoku Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, traveled to Japan for the 80th anniversary commemorations of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She is a former Australian Minister for International...

This Week’s Featured Interview: ICAN Executive Director Melissa Parke in Hiroshima. Photo: ICAN / Takeo Nakaoku Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, traveled to Japan for the 80th anniversary commemorations of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She is a former Australian Minister for International...

This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: On the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a look at what this meant for further generations’ health and psychology. Yuki Miyamoto is Nisei Hibakusha, second generation daughter of an atomic bomb survivor, and brings a personal perspective to her powerful work. She is a Professor...

This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interview: On the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a look at what this meant for further generations’ health and psychology. Yuki Miyamoto is Nisei Hibakusha, second generation daughter of an atomic bomb survivor, and brings a personal perspective to her powerful work. She is a Professor...

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Japan’s False Narrative of Fukushima Tritium-Contaminated Water Release: Planned Restart of Palisades Zombie Reactor in Michigan: ACTIVIST SHOUT-OUT

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Japan’s False Narrative of Fukushima Tritium-Contaminated Water Release: Planned Restart of Palisades Zombie Reactor in Michigan: ACTIVIST SHOUT-OUT

This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: Remembering Church Rock: Last week, we noted the dual nuclear nightmare anniversaries of July 16, focusing on the Trinity atomic test blast 80 years ago. There was no time on that show to go into the second July 16 anniversary, 1979's Church Rock uranium tailings spill on...

This Week’s Featured Interview: LINKS from the interview: Remembering Church Rock: Last week, we noted the dual nuclear nightmare anniversaries of July 16, focusing on the Trinity atomic test blast 80 years ago. There was no time on that show to go into the second July 16 anniversary, 1979's Church Rock uranium tailings spill on...

The new commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Trinity site of the world’s first atomic bomb explosion finally acknowledges and commemorates Downwinders. (l-r) Seth Shelden, General Counsel and United Nations Liaison of ICAN; Tina Cordova of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – New...

The new commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Trinity site of the world’s first atomic bomb explosion finally acknowledges and commemorates Downwinders. (l-r) Seth Shelden, General Counsel and United Nations Liaison of ICAN; Tina Cordova of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN SPECIAL: Trinity Atomic Bomb at 80 – New...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based marine biologist, researcher and consultant. He specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet's waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here, he explains the radioactive orange water leak from Sellafield in the UK and the harebrained proposed scheme for excavating a radioactive...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based marine biologist, researcher and consultant. He specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet's waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here, he explains the radioactive orange water leak from Sellafield in the UK and the harebrained proposed scheme for excavating a radioactive...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and he regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly what is going on, why we should...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and he regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exactly what is going on, why we should...

US BOMBS IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES – WE ARE UNOFFICIALLY AT WAR A roundup of what is currently known about last Saturday’s bombing attack by the United States on Iran nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Next week will feeature an extensive interview on what level of uranium enrichment Iran has achieved and how close...

US BOMBS IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES – WE ARE UNOFFICIALLY AT WAR A roundup of what is currently known about last Saturday’s bombing attack by the United States on Iran nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Next week will feeature an extensive interview on what level of uranium enrichment Iran has achieved and how close...

Yup – 14 years and 729 episodes down. What’s the half-life of a nuclear podcast? This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Featured Interview: Israel/Iran Bombings – Susi Snyder of ICAN Susi Snyder of ICAN parses the meanings and history of the current Israel/Iran escalating exchange of drone and missile attacks. Given the recent and almost...

Yup – 14 years and 729 episodes down. What’s the half-life of a nuclear podcast? This Week’s Featured Interview: Links from Featured Interview: Israel/Iran Bombings – Susi Snyder of ICAN Susi Snyder of ICAN parses the meanings and history of the current Israel/Iran escalating exchange of drone and missile attacks. Given the recent and almost...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuclear product rep claims to represents a process to “kill” radiation, tries to get Nuclear Hotseat host to endorse it. This does not end well for him… THE ICAN UPDATE – The Latest on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons from the International...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Nuclear product rep claims to represents a process to “kill” radiation, tries to get Nuclear Hotseat host to endorse it. This does not end well for him… THE ICAN UPDATE – The Latest on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons from the International...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Piles of bags containing radioactive topsoil scraped from all over Fukushima, still awaiting removal. Links from Interview: To purchase Return to Fukushima, go to: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Why the Golden Dome is another “insane” Trump obsession that won’t work. LINKS to Linda’s other work this week:...

This Week’s Featured Interview: Piles of bags containing radioactive topsoil scraped from all over Fukushima, still awaiting removal. Links from Interview: To purchase Return to Fukushima, go to: Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter Why the Golden Dome is another “insane” Trump obsession that won’t work. LINKS to Linda’s other work this week:...