International

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear views the Iran nuclear agreement in the context of the 70 year history started by the Manhattan Project and the US nuclear bombing of Japanese cities

Nuclear Free Future Host Margaret Harrington interviews Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog, of Beyond Nuclear on the importance of the Iran Nuclear Deal and the consequences if it is not passed by US Congress. He discusses nuclear power’s direct relation to nuclear weapons and the tangled history of the Atomic Age.

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Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Peace Activist David Conrad, who shares slides of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that graphically touch upon the human impact of the United States bombing of these cities in August 1945. Speaking from his home at the Wake Robin Community in Shelburne, Vermont, the retired University of Vermont professor reflects upon the use of nuclear weapons and a way forward to a world without nuclear weapons.

Alex Myers, from Washington D.C., will give a talk on transgender identity, using his own life story as well as the story of Deborah, a character from his novel, “Revolutionary”, to discuss the idea of gender identity and gender expression.

The 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are poised to commit to a new way of acting globally and nationally to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change impacts.