Ahead of the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination, Maeve Conran and Arjun Makhijani talk about the prospects for nuclear disarmament and a successful conference. Makhijani will be presenting at the UN conference on the history of nuclear weaponry.

This is part of an ongoing series, Conversations on Money, Politics and Science, a bi-weekly segment with KGNU’s Maeve Conran and Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.

Listen to the conversation, “Nuclear Disarmament,” about the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. Recorded on 8 June 2017

Hear more in this series, Conversations on Money, Politics and Sciencein the weeks ahead.

More about the effects of weapons testing:  KUNM radio commentary, Radioactive Milk in America (2003), and the related article “Let Them Drink Milk,” in Science for Democratic Action, Volume 6, Issue 2 (1997).