Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2023

Posted: 14th August 2023

Was racism one of the motivating factors for bombing Japan and did that mindset pervade subsequent atomic testing abroad? Linda Pentz Gunter explores the arguments. And why did Oliver Stone make such a bad film praising nuclear power, so full of obvious errors? John Dudley Miller has some answers.

Racism and the nuclear sector

The US government demonized Japanese people to the American public, first to justify the internment of Japanese Americans and then the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But that racism continued as decisions were made about about where and on whom to “test” atomic weapons, as well as where to conduct uranium mining and dump radioactive waste. READ MORE

Not nuclear now but never

In his film, Nuclear Now, director Oliver Stone makes cavalier assertions that nuclear power has been unfairly conspired against to force its current demise. But his documentary offers up so-called facts that are scientifically unsupportable or just out of date. What Stone chose to ignore is that there is no rational role for nuclear power in a warming world. READ MORE

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