In 2002 Helen Caldicott returned from Australia to – once again – help build an anti nuclear movement in the US. The so-called end of the Cold War had made everybody complacent. Now, thirty years after Helen Caldicott first appeared in the US and became a charismatic speaker and tireless organizer she says that matters are worse now than they were then. They are worse because the old weapons are still in place, worse because they’re building new nuclear weapons, some intended for use in space, worse because the US violates the major arms control treaties, worse because the US is now threatening the preemptive use of nuclear weapons, and worse because very few of us know these facts.
Helen Caldicott founded the still thriving organization Physicians for Social Responsibility and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Her recent book is The New Nuclear Danger, The New Press.
My friend Bonnie Faulkner, host of the KPFA radio show Guns and Butter <http://www.gunsandbutter.net>, interviewed Helen Caldicott at the end of 2004. Bonnie and Helen are happy to see their conversation re-broadcast on TUC Radio.
Helen’s organization is <http://www.nuclearpolicy.org>
In this talk Helen mentions repeatedly the Project for the New American Century. See the entry below for the link to PNAC and a copy of that TUC radio program.
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