Nuclear Hotseat #163: Hiroshima Day w/PSR's Catherine Thomasson

Published: Aug. 6, 2014, 5:38 a.m.

INTERVIEWS: Dr. Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Hiroshima Day interview on the current state of nuclear weapons and the dangers they still represent; and award-winning journalist Karl Grossman on recent developments in solar space propulsion technology that gives lie to the nuclear industry's claims that only nukes can power inter-planetary exploration. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: C'mon down to Oak Ridge, y'all! PLUS: Government confirms 1,750 USS Reagan sailors to date have unusual health developments; WIPP plant gets new monitors in anticipation of possible additional radiation leaks; too much radiation to comprehend in Japan; and a new report by Joe Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman confirms that radiation illnesses spiked after Fukushima. We all knew it; they just had to prove it, and they did.