Janine Jackson interviewed SUNY’s Karl Grossman about nuclear war for the August 12, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited…

The takeover of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site by Russian military forces poses a threat to safety and health unprecedented in the atomic era

The U.S. mission to dominate and control the military use of space has been, historically and at present, a major obstacle to achieving nuclear disarmament

These weapons need to be outlawed, not produced and purchased en masse

Conservative pundits encouraged their audiences to join Trump in his denial in the face of a health disaster

“Space war would immediately shut down activity on Earth below—cell phones, ATM machines, cable TV, traffic lights, weather prediction and more—all hooked up to satellites, would be lost. Modern society would go dark.”

Farmworkers—all over the United States—must be granted rights just as any other worker in the U.S. That’s long, long overdue

While the internet treated it largely as a kind of painful joke, corporate news media reported the Trump White House’s plans to establish a “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the US military as almost an inevitability