Note from GJEP: The below video short details the cataclysmic impacts of nuclear war. Nuclear energy has been denounced for its contribution to nuclear weapons development and as a false solution to climate change, which Mark Z. Jacobson, PhD, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University, detailed in an April 2021 article, The 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 

“The growth of nuclear energy has historically increased the ability of nations to obtain or harvest plutonium or enrich uranium to manufacture nuclear weapons. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognizes this fact. They concluded in the Executive Summary of their 2014 report on energy, with ‘robust evidence and high agreement’ that nuclear weapons proliferation concern is a barrier and risk to the increasing development of nuclear energy…”/embed

The full Breaking Green podcast interview “90 seconds to midnight” with Dr. Helen Caldicott, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, will be available on this website on 2 February 2023.

90 seconds to midnight. Effects of nuclear war with Helen Caldicott. from Global Justice Ecology Project on Vimeo.