Host Peter Coyote and studio guests discuss the nuclear threat in the post-Cold War age. Who is the greatest nuclear threat in the world? Is it North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Israel or perhaps the United States itself? After decades of cold-war, superpower parity and carefully constructed nuclear arms agreements, the Bush administration has now again begun thinking the unthinkable: the development and use of nuclear weapons as a viable means of warfare and counter-terrorism assaults. Meanwhile critics at home and around the world fear this may increase the possibility of nuclear war by sending a green-light signal to nuclear weapon-states that the use of �tactical� nuclear weapons is acceptable. THE NUCLEAR LULLABY presents information which the US government has not divulged on Nuclear Proliferation, the use of Depleted Uranium, and the storage hazards and �disposal� of nuclear waste. The program will the explore the legacy of nuclear radiation, from the �downwinders� of nuclear testing, to the American servicemen and women contaminated by depleted uranium in Iraq. Also discussed are both the domestic and international facets of the nuclear threat, including nuclear terrorism, the realities of a �Hindu� and �Islamic� nuclear bomb, the resurgence in building of plutonium pits, the contamination of the environment and the consequences of passing the unsolved burden of nuclear waste on to future generations. Guests include:

Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma)
Jonathan Schell - Fellow, The Nation Institute
Jonathan Granoff, ESQ - President, Global Security Institute
Arjun Makhijani - President of the Institute for Energy
Dan Fahey - Desert Storm Veteran

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GET INVOLVED - HERE'S SOME LINKS TO GET YOU STARTED:

Nuclear Files, a website devoted to the history of the Nuclear Age.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, educating citizens about global security issues, especially the continuing dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.

The Global Security Institute works with citizens and policy makers to achieve incremental steps that enhance security and lead to the global elimination of nuclear weapons.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute conducting research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security.

Center for Defense Information, a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to independent research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security.

The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives for stopping the spread of weapons of war, from nuclear arms to landmines.

GlobalSecurity.org is focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium. The organization seeks to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons and the risk of their use -- both by existing nuclear weapons states and those states seeking to acquire such capabilities. GlobalSecurity.org aims to shift American conventional military forces towards new capabilities aligned with the post-Cold War security environment, and to reduce the worldwide incidence of deadly conflict.

Avoiding Armageddon, a timely series from Ted Turner Documentaries explores the explosive intersection between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Viewers are taken to some of the most dangerous places in the world to see dramatic human stories that convey the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, as well as the hope that the world can still choose to avoid Armageddon.

Nuclear Threat Initiative, co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn, is working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, an organization whose vision is of a world at peace, free of the threat of war and free of weapons of mass destruction.

The Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, a nonprofit educational association using national and international law to promote peace and disarmament.