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By Agron Latifi, Illawarra Mercury, 13 May 2019 Anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott once gave the then US president Ronald Reagan a piece of her mind during a meeting in the White House. Last Saturday Dr Caldicott took…
Read More »The fallout from nuclear nations
Fred Pearce’s book Fallout is a fascinating insight into a few of the disastrous episodes which took place during the hasty and ill-informed projects of the nuclear age, Dr Helen Caldicott says. Guest Dr Helen Caldicott Paediatrician; President,…
Read More »Put on your pearls and pummel ‘em!
By Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear International, 14 April 2019 Dr. Helen Caldicott: the anti-nuclear movement’s most fearless and indefatigable matriarch I have nothing against Birkenstock sandals. Well, not much anyway. Nor tie-dye really. Nor, do I think,…
Read More »How Do You Justify a $750 Billion Budget?
By William J. Astore, Antiwar.com, posted on April 09, 2019 I grew up on a steady diet of threat inflation. Before I was born, bomber and missile “gaps” had been falsely touted as showing the Soviet Union was…
Read More »Fukushima: “An Ongoing Global Radiological Catastrophe”. “A Huge Coverup”.
The eight year anniversary of the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility passed mostly without comment in mainstream media circles. In spite of ongoing radiological contamination that will continue to spread and threaten human health for…
Read More »The Thinking Woman review: Julienne van Loon on the forces that shape us
By Jo Case, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 April 2019 The Thinking Woman Julienne van Loon NewSouth, $34.99 The Thinking Woman, the first work of non-fiction by acclaimed novelist Julienne van Loon (whose career began with a Vogel win…
Read More »Fukushima at Eight: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad
By Michael Welch, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and Arnie Gundersen, Global Research, 17 March 2019 “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” – Albert Einstein…
Read More »Woman in 90s still works for peace through activism
by Eric E. Harrison, Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 3 March 2019 Jean Gordon has been actively advocating for peace for more than four decades. “At least as far back as the ’70s, with the Arkansas Peace Center,” she…
Read More »In My Own Words
By Helen Caldicott, NAPF, 1 February 2019 What got you started on the path to being a nuclear weapons abolitionist? It began back when I was in my teens and read Neville Shute’s novel, On the Beach. It…
Read More »Some European Leaders Want to Prevent US From Killing INF Treaty – Peace Activist
Some European allies want to make last ditch efforts to prevent the arms race that will escalate if the US government exits the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Helen Caldicott, founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for…
Read More »CIA Ditched Truth Drugs for Direct Torture of Prisoners After 9/11 – Analysts
The CIA appeared to have relied more on outright methods of torture or so-called “enhanced interrogation” techniques rather than using truth drugs after the September 11 terror attacks, University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle said….
Read More »Thinking the Unthinkable
B.B. Singer, 26 Aug 2018, Niagara Gazette I recall in the early ‘80s when Jonathan Schell’s book “The Fate of the Earth” came out, long after “On the Beach” had cinematically addressed the same grisly subject of a…
Read More »Rogue Regenesys: Dr Helen Caldicott
On 23 August 2018, Rogue Regensys host Andrew Mount interviewed Dr Helen Caldicott. Andrew Mount, your host for Rogue Regenesys, examines the assumptions, limitations and failures of the current economic paradigm, aiming to highlight poignant alternatives and proposing…
Read More »US Nukes: Our Biggest Challenge
By Maud Easter, timesunion on July 20, 2018 In recent years, our fear about nuclear weapons has focused on whether new countries will join the club – on Obama’s successful efforts to prevent Iran from going nuclear (unfortunately now being…
Read More »World’s largest book about peace on display
The Big Book: Pages for Peace exhibit, featuring the world’s largest book about peace, opened July 11 at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough. The exhibit will run through Dec. 31. The Big Book exhibit has a big goal:…
Read More »Is space for wonder or for war?
By Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear International, 20 June 2018 “What country is that?” asked Congressman Elijah Cummings on Tuesday, outrage choking his voice with emotion. Cummings, a Congressman from Maryland, could have been asking his question about any…
Read More »The Malfeasance of the US Military. Fallible and Negligent Men Armed to the Teeth with Missiles and Nuclear Bombs
By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Global Research, 8 June 2018 In 2015, ninety-two American missile officers were suspended because they had been cheating, taking drugs, or sleeping in the missile silos. These men are employed to guard and to…
Read More »Straight talk from down-under
By Dan Drollette Jr, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 26 April 2018 During the darkest days of World War II, US Army general Joseph Stilwell earned the nickname “Vinegar Joe” for his brilliant, blunt, bracing, leadership style. Stilwell’s tough,…
Read More »US Arms Exports Expansion Result of Military Complex Pressure – Peace Activist
The Trump administration’s easier new rules for high tech weapons sales directly to foreign countries is a victory for giant US defense contractors to increase their profits, international peace activist Dr. Helen Caldicott told Sputnik on Friday. “Relaxation…
Read More »The Fight for Nuclear Deterrence Goes Local
By Alastair Boone & Sarah Holder, Citylab, 26 March 2018 Some cities and states are taking their own initiative to protect the world from a U.S. trigger finger. And they’re mostly led by women. Dropping an atomic bomb…
Read More »The Continuing Relevance of “On the Beach”
“It frightened the hell out of me. I’m still frightened.” These words mark the reaction of a young Australian named Helen Caldicott to a story of the aftermath of mistaken nuclear war, in which those who never even…
Read More »Anti-Nuclear Movement Founder Backs Cancer Crisis Clean-Up at US Base in Azores
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The cancer epidemic sweeping Terceira Island in the Azores, home to the US Air Base at Lajes, is a health crisis that requires an immediate environmental cleanup, Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder of a Nobel Peace…
Read More »Doomsday Clock ticking but prediction remains difficult
By Tom Switzer, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January 2018 For seven decades, the Chicago-based Bulletin of Atomic Scientists group has kept a symbolic device called the Doomsday Clock. Its purpose is to warn humankind about the prospects of…
Read More »Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Trump, press freedom and nuclear secrets on RN Breakfast
Daniel Ellsberg, the man described as the most famous whistleblower of the 20th century talks about Spielberg’s new film The Post, press freedom, Donald Trump, and why he didn’t leak thousands of top-secret nuclear war documents. Listen to…
Read More »SA’s medical marvel who cheated death, defiant to the end
Roy Eccleston, The Advertiser, January 19, 2018 WHEN Vilma Taylor’s seven-month-old baby Brad was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in 1964, the specialist assured her he’d be dead before long. “They said when he was born that five years of…
Read More »A Hiroshima Native’s View: ‘More Missiles Will Not Save Us’
By Seiji Yamada, Honolulu Civil Beat, January 16, 2018 At 8:07 on Saturday morning, Hawaii residents woke up to an emergency alert on their cellphones: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”…
Read More »Analyst: Lowballing Anti-Daesh Civilian Death Toll Likely to Fuel Hatred for US
Last week the Defense Department claimed that only 89 civilians had been accidentally killed in US air strikes against the Daesh terrorist group. However, the New York Times reported on Friday that the US air strikes against Daesh…
Read More »Are We Creeping Toward A Nuclear Disaster?
The prospect of nuclear war. How serious is it? This hour, Australian anti-nuclear activist and writer Dr. Helen Caldicott shares her answer to that question. We also check in with experts from the Cato Institute and UConn. And we want to…
Read More »Are We ‘Sleepwalking to Armageddon’ With Nuclear Weapons?
Dr. Helen Caldicott joins Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson to talk about her work opposing nuclear weapons. Nobel Peace Prize laureates — such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Theresa, and Nelson Mandela — are people who have been recognized for…
Read More »There Is a New Urgency to the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
By Helen Caldicott, The New Press | Book Excerpt In the following excerpt from her introduction to Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott explains why nuclear catastrophe is still a very real and pressing danger to…
Read More »Trump’s New Afghan Strategy May Generate Increased Global Terror
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President Donald Trump’s decision to keep US troops in Afghanistan, reversing his campaign pledges to withdraw from conflicts around the world, will backfire and create many more dedicated terrorists instead, global peace activist Dr. Helen Caldicott told Sputnik. In his August 21 speech,…
Read More »Callous US Training Policies Led to Killing of Iraqi Civilians
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Iraqi army division trained by the United States government allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosul’s Old City, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced last week. “US training policies made no distinction to spare civilians in war situations that themselves…
Read More »US ‘Childish’ Missile Interceptor Test Serves to Alarm N Korea – Peace Activist
A recent anti-missile test by the US is designed to make North Korea worry further that Washington is planning “significant military action” against it, peace activist Helen Caldicott told Sputnik. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The interception of an intercontinental ballistic missile…
Read More »The Peace Movement
The Beginning and End of Nuclear Disarmament Campaigning in Vancouver Christine Kim, University of British Columbia Abstract The Peace Movement was an active political campaign promoting total nuclear disarmament during a period in history where the two most powerful…
Read More »Moon Victory in S. Korea Offers Hope for THAAD System Withdrawal – Activist
Peace activist Helen Caldicott claims that the election of Moon Jae-in as the next president of South Korea offers hope that the THAAD system will be withdrawn from the country soon after it was installed there. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) —…
Read More »Trump, Pentagon ‘Sleepwalking to Armageddon’ With War Policies
Sputnik News, 15-04-2017 US President Donald Trump’s neoconservative advisors are pushing the United States towards nuclear war through military adventurism and fueling tensions with Russia, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and activist Helen Caldicott told Sputnik. On…
Read More »Trump’s Strikes in Syria: ‘The World Is on Tenterhooks Awaiting His Next Move’
Sputnik News, 12-04-2017 Global peace campaigner Helen Caldicott said that in the light of recent attack on Syria, it is “absolutely terrifying” that US President Trump has a control of huge conventional and nuclear arsenal. President Donald Trump’s…
Read More »Fukushima Radiation, What Prospects for Humanity
“Do not go to Japan. Do not under any circumstances take your children to Japan, because you don’t know what you’re eating and where the food is sourced… And the Japanese are trying now to export their radioactive…
Read More »US Military Industrial Complex Preventing Global Nuclear Disarmament
The White House announced its plans to increase the US defense budget by $54 billion dollars with part of it going to restoring the US’s nuclear capabilities. Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author of the book “Sleepwalking to…
Read More »Dr. Caldicott on Fukushima: “Decommission or Cleaning Up? It’s Fantasy!”
This Week’s Featured Interview on Nuclear Hotseat Podcast: Dr. Helen Caldicott on why Fukushima will never be able to be cleaned up; the devastating health impacts of radiation; and why the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a really really…
Read More »The Fukushima nuclear meltdown continues unabated
Dr Helen Caldicott, explains recent robot photos taken of Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear reactors: radiation levels have not peaked, but have continued to spill toxic waste into the Pacific Ocean — but it’s only now the damage has been photographed. RECENT…
Read More »Thirty Seconds To Midnight – The Final Wake Up Call
Filmmaker Regis Tremblay states what few others dare to say. Humanity is on the brink of extinction! Nuclear power is not safe. 48 of America’s nuclear power plants are leaking and there is no way to get rid…
Read More »Peace Activist: US Congressional Study on Wiping Out Russian Leader ‘Ridiculous’
The US Congress’s request to American intelligence agencies to evaluate the “survivability” of Russian and Chinese leaders after a nuclear attack is absurd, global peace activist Helen Caldicott told Sputnik. The comprehensive study recently mandated by Congress will be…
Read More »Interview on Radio 531pi
Radio 531pi has been serving our Pacific communities on the AM band since 1993. Our team of broadcasters aim to provide news, views and interviews keeping you informed about the latest sports, current events, and issues affecting our…
Read More »US-NATO ‘Buildup on Russian Border Could Lead to Nuclear War’ – Nobel Laureate
US political leaders have falsely accused Moscow of threatening NATO member states while the alliance aggressively builds up military forces on Russia’s border, Nobel Peace Prize winner and global peace activist Helen Caldicott told Sputnik. On Thursday, US…
Read More »US Media Peddling Fake News for Over Century, Activist Says
The US government and State Department do not deserve to be entrusted with the power to pass judgment on what is legitimate news as because they have disseminated so much false information of their own, global peace activist…
Read More »Helen Caldicott – Anti-nuclear warrior
Australian Dr Helen Caldicott has been campaigning for nuclear disarmament for decades and her visit to New Zealand in the early ’80s is often cited as a catalyst for Kiwis adopting the anti-nuclear cause as their own. The…
Read More »Time for Premier Jay Weatherill to Dump the Dump
Regarding plans to import nuclear waste to South Australia, Friends of the Earth Australia notes that the Community Views Report released today is overwhelmingly negative and calls on SA Premier Jay Weatherill to abandon the proposal. Key findings…
Read More »Acclaimed Peace Doctor Says President Trump Could Result in Nuclear Disaster
Visiting international peace activist Dr. Helen Caldicott says the election of Donald Trump means New Zealand’s role as a non-nuclear state is of vital importance. She says we don’t know what President-elect Trump will do when he reaches…
Read More »Whose work was the inspiration for the first nuke-free country?
New Zealand was the first country in the world to pass national nuclear-free legislation. Marilyn Waring reflects on how Dr. Helen Caldicott’s influence culminated in the passage of the cornerstone of New Zealand’s foreign policy. If you were…
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