Guest guest Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 No Nukes Is Good Nukes An interview with longtime anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott By Gregory Dicum 03 May 2005 Helen Caldicott. Photo: Greg Barrett.In 1971, Helen Caldicott had an epiphany: all life on earth could end at any moment, simply because a few pig-headed people imagined they could " win " a nuclear war. A decade later, she had given up her promising medical career to devote her life to nothing short of saving the world. Her urgent Australian twang became a sane voice in a world gone mad. In 1985, the Caldicott-inspired International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War won the Nobel Peace Prize. The organization beat out Caldicott herself, who had been nominated by Linus Pauling, the renowned chemist, anti-nuclear activist, and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner. By the end of the Cold War, Caldicott had attempted a quiet retirement in Australia. But that didn't last. Today, with a renewed push to develop nuclear weapons in the U.S. and other countries and nuclear energy slithering back onto the table, the threat is as present as ever, as she writes in The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex. With her latest endeavor, the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, Caldicott seeks to counter the media offensives of the nuclear industry. Meanwhile, she's working on a new book -- her sixth -- about the psychopathologies of nuclear decision makers. Grist met with Caldicott in San Francisco, where she was planning a fund-raiser around the release of Helen's War, a sobering film about her initial efforts to get NPRI off the ground in the midst of post-9/11 groupthink. -- Q: There's a concerted effort right now to rehabilitate the image of nuclear power. Proponents argue that fossil fuels are more damaging to the environment, as well as being in short supply, and that nuclear is the [best option going forward]. What's going on here? A: The people saying these things are not biologists, they're not geneticists, they're not physicians. In other words, they don't know what they're talking about. And that makes me very annoyed. First of all, every reactor produces about [20 to 30] tons of highly radioactive waste a year................. for the whole interview.... http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/05/03/dicum-caldicott/index.html And Bugs Bunny is a friend of mine Eating him I'd feel like Frankenstein Eating flesh seems pretty foul to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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