Stories by Karl Grossman
is an award-winning investigative reporter and full professor of journalism at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury
The media's attitude before the outbreak of Mad Cow was akin to waiting until there's a pile-up with bodies strewn across an intersection to put up a traffic light -- but why aren't they talking now?
Posted on May 3, 2004
Nuclear power plants provide both a desirable target for a terrorist attack and potential raw material for a "dirty bomb." It's time to shut them down.
Posted on Jun 13, 2002
Despite tremendous danger, huge expense and a clear alternative, the U.S. government is pushing ahead with plans to deploy nuclear power in space. In October, NASA will launch the Cassini space probe to Saturn carrying 72.3 pounds of lethal plutonium, long described by scientists as the most toxic substance known. Should something go awry, billions of people on Earth could be affected.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
