Podcasts about existential peril

 Photo:  Kano in the 1930s. 1/2: Nigeria in existential peril; & what is to be done?  Jonathan Rosenthal @TheEconomist HFN https://econ.st/3m1WTZL

Photo: Fula, or Fulani, residents of Kano, in the splendid Sokoto Caliphate, in 1900 2/2: Nigeria in existential peril; & what is to be done?  Jonathan Rosenthal @TheEconomist HFN https://econ.st/3m1WTZL

On April 4, 2018, seven Catholic activists entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary's Georgia to symbolically disarm the Trident nuclear submarines housed there. They are now awaiting trial and face up to 25 years in prison. On this week of their upcoming oral arguments in Georgia, which coincides with the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three of them, Martha Hennessy, Carmen Trotta and Clare Grady, tell us what they did and why. 1:00 -- The antinuclear activists: "on the wrong side of history"? 2:43 -- Martha, Carmen, and Clare introduce themselves7:55 -- Clare takes issue with my use of the word "illegal" (oops!) 9:17 -- The teachings of Jesus and the institutional Church10:42 -- What is the real "criminal conspiracy"? 11:15 -- Acting in the 40 year tradition of the Ploughshares movement17:30 -- The significance of the date19:20 -- Why the Kings Bay Naval Base? 20:20 -- What is happening next week and the 4 points to dismiss the charges and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act23:13 -- Why they did this: time to "up the ante" and silence as complicity28:30 -- What are the "delusions to which we as a country are addicted"? 34:11 -- Is the nuclear issue a thing of the past? 35:07 -- Carmen provides a brief overview of past possibilities for disarmament and how the U.S. provoked a new Cold War37:10 -- Where does the legal case stand now? When is the trial? 39:22 -- Events happening THIS WEEK in Georgia and D.C.40:28 -- The nuclear issue as it stands today43:38 -- "Gangster Grannies"Read their indictment of Trident: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/about/indictment-1/Sign the petition to dismiss all charges: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/act-now/See upcoming events happening Aug. 6 - 11, 2019 in Georgia and D.C.: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/events/Read The Long Loneliness written by Martha's grandmother, Dorothy Day: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Loneliness-Autobiography-Legendary-Catholic/dp/0060617519Listen to interviews with Martha and Clare on the Nonviolent Direct Action podcast: Jack Gilroy interviews Clare Grady -- https://player.fm/series/nonviolent-direct-action/nda-1-clare-grady-kings-bay-plowshares-activistEllen Grady interviews Martha Hennesy -- https://player.fm/series/nonviolent-direct-action/nda-12-swords-into-plowsharesOther things mentioned in the podcast: Camden 28 -- http://www.pbs.org/pov/camden28/Pacem In Terris -- http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem.htmlIsaiah Chapter 2: http://www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/2Nuremberg Principles: http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/7_1_1950.pdfThe Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg: https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner/dp/1608196704"Beyond Vietnam" speech by MLK, Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1Ru2p8OfUCivil Trial of MLK finds conspiracy involving elements of the U.S. government: https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.htmlicanw.org -- http://www.icanw.org -- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsAlrighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age -- https://www.amazon.com/Almighty-Courage-Resistance-Existential-Nuclear/dp/0735212317Every nuclear explosion since 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrYFind us at: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.comFind our podcast/RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down Dan Zak, author of Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age. In his book, Zak writes about a book about nuclear weapons, the activists who resist them, and the bureaucracy that maintains them.

In July 2012, three protesters, an 84-year-old Catholic nun among them, broke into a secure facility in Oak Ridge, TN, where the United States stockpiles its highly enriched uranium.  The break-in, in which fences were cut, slogans were painted, and human blood was poured on the facility’s walls, is widely known to be the most damaging and embarrassing incident in the US’s nuclear program’s history. In this episode, we speak with Dan Zak, a Washington Post reporter who originally covered this story in 2013, and recently published his book entitled, “Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age.”  It’s August, and if you haven’t had your vacation yet, buy this book and get out on the beach right away.  You’re in for a moral, ethical, and theological thriller of the highest order. This is an encore presentation of this podcast, originally published a year ago.  The book, "Almighty," is now available in paperback.

Bill Press welcomes Rachana Pradhan, Ryan Reilly and Dan Zak to discuss Donald Trump's big shake-up in the West Wing, whether or not the Senate will try to take up health care again in August, Trump's endorsement of police brutality and the new book Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age - the full Monday edition of the Bill Press Show!

Dan Zak, Washington Post reporter and author of Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age, talks to Rob Masiello and Sean Tuohy about what he learned while researching the book, the global response to nuclear weapons and their implications, and why reading newspapers is better than solely binging news on social media.

Are the nation’s most dangerous warheads secure if a rag-tag troika of peaceniks can break through the storage facility’s back door? On The Gist, Washington Post reporterDan Zak considers the good and not-so-good arguments for nuclear weapons. His book is Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age.  For the Spiel, Jill Stein’s unforgivable comments on debt forgiveness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the nation’s most dangerous warheads secure if a rag-tag troika of peaceniks can break through the storage facility’s back door? On The Gist, Washington Post reporterDan Zak considers the good and not-so-good arguments for nuclear weapons. His book is Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age.  For the Spiel, Jill Stein’s unforgivable comments on debt forgiveness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In July 2012, three protesters, an 84-year-old Catholic nun among them, broke into a secure facility in Oak Ridge, TN, where the United States stockpiles its highly enriched uranium.  The break-in, in which fences were cut, slogans were painted, and human blood was poured on the facility’s walls, is widely known to be the most damaging and embarrassing incident in the US’s nuclear program’s history. In this episode, we speak with Dan Zak, a Washington Post reporter who originally covered this story in 2013, and recently published his book entitled, “Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age.”  It’s August, and if you haven’t had your vacation yet, buy this book and get out on the beach right away.  You’re in for a moral, ethical, and theological thriller of the highest order.

In this time of asymmetrical warfare, terrorism, and the war images that have been projected into our living rooms since Vietnam, it's easy for those not alive fifty years ago to forget, or even not even consider, the fear, the horror and the specter of nuclear annihilation. The President's recent trip to Hiroshima and the fear of Trump having nuclear codes are both reminders that the nuclear reality still lives among us. That reality is what motivated three unlikely activists in the summer of 2012 to break into one of our nation's seemingly most secure nuclear facilities.  In so doing they triggered  political, legal and moral issues that had lied dormant for so long. Telling this powerful story and what it says about the nuclear age is my guest Washington post reporter Dan Zak in Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age. My conversation with Dan Zak: