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By Helen Caldicott In light of Peter Dutton’s enthusiastic endorsement of the latest nuclear reactors, it is pertinent to review this technology in depth. There are three types of SMRs which generate less than 300 megawatts of electricity compared with current day 1000 megawatt reactors. Light water reactors designs – smaller versions of present-day pressurized […]

  Guest Speaker: Helen Caldicott, World Renowned Peace Activist & Author Moderated by Martin Sheen, Actor & Peace Activist Sponsored by the JFK Peace Speech Committee and the Community Church of Boston Monday February 19, 2024 7pm-8.30pm EST Register for Zoom Link The first hour of our Program, moderated by Martin Sheen, will feature an award-winning

By Charlotte Dennett, CounterPunch, January 23, 2024 “There’s something about the sound of a mothers scream, you just never forget.” That was a comment from actress Ellen Moore when interviewed about her role in a recently released documentary about the 1982 movie The Day After, a spellbinder that had over a hundred million Americans glued to

By Karl Grossman, Independent Australia, 31 January 2024 (Images: The Official CTBTO Photostream | Flickr / PxHere) Nuclear experts are warning that we are dangerously close to annihilation as wars escalate around the world, writes Karl Grossman. THE “DOOMSDAY CLOCK” of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was kept at 90 seconds to midnight this week — the

Helen Caldicott, Voices of Democracy [1] Thank you very much, it’s–I’m very pleased to be here. First of all, it feels like the middle of nowhere. I had to fly and fly and fly (laughing) hours before I made it. And also, I want to say how impressed I am with the Student Nurses Association,

Dr. Helen Caldicott explains why men kill. We also discussed the risk of a nuclear Armageddon, if not by intent, but by human error.

by Robert Alvarez, The Washington Spectator, Dec 18, 2023 | Environment PHOTO CREDIT: Savannah River Site As one of my first tasks early in the first Clinton Administration as the newly appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, I conducted the first (and only) asset inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In carrying it out, we

By Jean Yamamura, Santa Barbara Independent, Mon Dec 11, 2023 David Krieger, a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, died on December 7 at the age of 81. He spoke around the world, advocating for the abolishment of nuclear weapons and for establishing peace, a mission he felt called to after

By Michelle Pini, Independent Australia, 22 September 2023 (Image by Dan Jensen) Managing editor Michelle Pini details why Peter Dutton’s latest nuclear energy push is actually “unhinged”. APPARENTLY, no one suffered from the Fukushima meltdown. Or the Chernobyl calamity. So, we should all move on. Certainly, with fossil fuels fast running out, the Coalition – led by Dutton

J Robert Oppenheimer was conflicted over the use of the very weapon he helped to conceive (Image by Dan Jensen) By Binoy Kampmark, Independent Australia, 22 August 2023 The atomic bomb created the conditions of contingent catastrophe, forever placing the world on the precipice of existential doom. But in doing so, it created a philosophy

YouTube, 9 August 2023 Scott Ritter warns that America’s stated, strategic plan to destroy Russia will spell the end of life on the planet. Why? The US has unilaterally withdrawn for all nuclear arms treaties that have kept us safe since Reagan signed the first treaty with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It was “Trust but

By Helen Caldicott THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are

Press release from: Exposure Films Trust   The Honorable Andrew Napuat and award-winning filmmaker Philippe Carillo (The Fukushima Disaster, the Hidden Side of the Story) are speaking out against Japan’s government and the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) attempts to silence the voices of the people of the Pacific Island Nations by censuring critical data recognized

Robert Dodge, Common Dreams, 24 July 2023 The service that the new Christopher Nolan film has brought forth, providing public awareness about nuclear weapons, demands that we cannot remain silent. I attended this weekend’s Los Angeles opening of Christopher Nolan’s epic film, Oppenheimer. This must-see film provides a critical opening for an essential conversation about

Mohammad Ali, UrduPoint, July 17, 2023 WASHINGTON Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, especially children, are going to die from unexploded cluster bombs supplied by the United States to the Kiev regime in the coming decades, global peace activist Dr. Helen Caldicott told Sputnik. “Between 5% to 30% of these bomblets fail to explode initially,” Caldicott, founder

by WS Editors, Washington Spectator, Mar 28, 2023  It’s been nearly 40 years since If You Love This Planet won the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. The film is comprised of a lecture given to students by the celebrated nuclear critic Dr. Helen Caldicott, president at the time of Physicians for Social Responsibility. With the growing

By Helen Caldicott, Independent Australia, 23 March 2023 Families in Iraq are now living with a dramatic rise in birth defects (Image via Pixabay) An increasing number of birth defects have been reported in Iraq following the U.S. detonation of radioactive weapons near homes and schools during the 2003 invasion, writes Dr Helen Caldicott. * CONTENT WARNING:

CodePink, 10 March 2023 20 years ago on International Women’s Day 2003 10,000 women marched from MLK Jr. Park to the White House to find it encircled and blocked by police; Alice Walker was able to affect an officer who opened a space for the women to enter the lockdown. Walker stated “The best substitute for war is intelligence,

  Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on January 7, 2023 Join host Ronnie Lipschutz in welcoming Dr. Helen Caldicott to Sustainability Now!, live from Australia, to talk about the looming threat of nuclear war. According to Dr. Caldicott, the nuclear doomsday clock of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is set at 100 seconds to Midnight, but 20 seconds is closer

Rick Mills – Ahead of the Herd | December 16, 2022 | Energy Intelligence USA Uranium  Those who grew up in the 1980s and were educated in North America probably remember watching a film called ‘If You Love This Planet’. The 1982 short documentary records a lecture given to students by physician and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott,

Now we are at the abyss of a war with Russia, the ultimate insanity. And yet the Pentagon spokespeople on NPR are there to talk up this latest war. They are full of platitudes about the war being winnable, as well as the moral thing to do for freedom and democracy in the world. iTunes:

With the ominous threat of climate catastrophe clouding our future, it is easy to forget that the use of nuclear weapons could bring about immediate destruction on an unimaginable scale. The current ‘casual’ discussion of the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine brings home the reality of our risk. Dr Helen Caldicott is

Joe DeMare talks about his ecological observations on the way to Washington DC. Then Pat Marida talks about HB434, the plan to turn Ohio into a nuclear waste dump. Then he has an amazing interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott talking about the rerelease of her academy award winning movie, “If You Love This Planet” and

Martita Mestey, Nov 21, 2022 … I really need to address a Joint session of Congress so that they become aware of the travesty inherent in nuclear war which is definitely on the horizon. I also would need to have unlimited access to the American media to repeat what I did in the ’80s which

By Common Dreams | 11 November 2022 The Biden Administration is insisting Australia remain reliant on America’s nuclear forces (Image by Dan Jensen) As Australia considers signing a treaty against nuclear weapons, the United States has taken a bullying approach against the Albanese Government, writes Julia Conley. ANTI-NUCLEAR weapons campaigners rebuked the Biden Administration on Wednesday over its opposition

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 individual in history. During more than 60 years of activism, she has founded or revived organizations including Physicians for Social Responsibility; led protests,

By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, 17 October 2022 A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress leads a formation of aircraft including American, Polish, German, and Swedish fighter aircraft over the Baltic Sea on June 9, 2016. (Photo: U.S. Air Force) As NATO on Monday began its annual rehearsal for nuclear war in Europe and Russia prepared to

By Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear International, 16 October 2022 When you are a medical professional, relying on luck is not the preferred option. But for 87-year old retired radiologist, Dr. Murray Watnick, there are some circumstances when, if luck comes your way, you readily embrace it. One such moment was the Cuban Missile Crisis,

By Robert Farley and Lori Robertson, Posted on October 10, 2022 | Updated on October 11, 2022 Former President Donald Trump made a series of faulty comparisons to other past presidents to argue that he was being held to a double standard regarding the FBI’s pursuit of his presidential documents. Trump accused several of his presidential predecessors of storing White House

Sambad English Bureau Oct 5, 2022  World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and

6 Sep 2022 | Joseph S. Nye Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and nuclear sabre rattling against the West have revived a debate about nuclear weapons. Last year, when a United Nations treaty to ban such weapons outright entered into force, none of the world’s nine nuclear-weapon states was among the 86 signatories. How can these states

Late Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was a good, well-meaning man who ended the Cold War and dramatically reduced superpower and global nuclear tensions, but he put too much trust into the unwritten assurances of American leaders, experts told Sputnik. Gorbachev died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in Moscow after a long and serious

by Helen Caldicott, The Progressive, August 3, 2020 My birthday is August 7, sandwiched between the anniversary dates for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively). I was six years old when the first bomb fell. My course in life was predetermined. On September 2, 1945, when the

Discussing the existential threats to life on the planet with Regis Tremblay: nuclear war, nuclear power, and climate change. Also, her thoughts on what the Coronavirus and global lockdowns mean.