Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

INTERVIEWS: USS Reagan veteran Steve Simmons, an interviewee on Nuclear Hotseat #159, offers a well reasoned and deeply felt response to the US military's recent report that denied Fukushima radiation could have anything to do with Steve's and 111 other sailors' catastrophic illnesses. Joseph Mangano, Executive Director of Radiation and Public Health Project, offers an epidemiological analysis of that report, pointing out its historic similarity to other times the US government downplayed nuclear dangers. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: If the officers in charge of arming and firing US nuclear missiles can't pass their tests, the Air Force has the answer: change the way they're graded! PLUS: More animal species in collapse; shots fired at Braidwood NPP in Illinois; and the Great (Ice) Wall Of Japan? No ice, no dice!