John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" calls out the absurdity of nuclear weapons

Comedian John Oliver's weekly HBO program "Last Week Tonight" went after the absurdity of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, and public apathy in the face of such catastrophic risks. He discusses the dubious management of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including degraded facilities, and scandals involving U.S. nuclear missileers. He also chronicles a number of nuclear near-misses, "Almost-ageddons," he calls them.

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Commemorating the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, 69 years later

Kevin Kamps (left, with microphone) gives an update on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, flanked by John Steinbach of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee of Washington, D.C. Photo by Christine Herrmann of PSR.Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps was invited by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee of Washington, D.C.'s coordinator, John Steinbach (see photo, left), to give an update on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe at this year's commemoration of the atomic bombings in 1945. The event took place, for the first time, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Monument, on the National Mall.

Presentations were also made by Hibakusa -- survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings -- both first generation, as well as second generation.