Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space, discusses the incredible amount of nuclear weapons in the hands of the United States and Russia and the non-threats of Iran and North Korea, Reagan and Gorbachev’s near agreement to abolish them in 1987, the danger of Pakistani nukes falling into the hands of Taliban types, Israel’s nukes, what a 20-megaton H-bomb would do to Phoenix, Three Mile Island, the damage at the local nuclear plant, and hears from a caller – a former U.S. military nuclear missile launcher – how she changed his life.
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Dr. Helen Caldicott is founder and president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute. For over 35 years, Dr. Caldicott has been active in spreading information about the hazards of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The organization she co-founded in 1978, Physicians for Social Responsibility, was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, and a documentary based on a lecture she gave in 1981, on the topic of nuclear war, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (short) in 1982. Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, she currently divides her time between Australia and the U.S. For more information about Helen Caldicott.