Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025

Posted: 14th October 2025

Solar For All was meant to be just that. Its cruel cancellation by the Trump administration is an especially hard blow for Native tribes. But they’re not giving up, writes Cody Two Bears. And a play by Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy, about a little known “journalistic” scandal at the dawn of the Atomic Age, gets its first staged reading, writes Karl Grossman.

A gut punch to communities

When Trump’s EPA cancelled the Solar For All grants it was a “gut punch to communities” says Cody Two Bears, founder of Indigenized Energy and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. 14 tribal governments had been solarizing homes and teaching tribal members essential skills in the renewable energy business. But despite the serious setback, they will be “standing up, standing together, and staying the course,” Two Bears says. READ MORE

“Atomic Bill” pays up

William “Bill” Laurence was a New York Times reporter secretly embedded inside the Manhattan Project where the US atomic bomb was being developed. His coverage was less journalism than propaganda with Laurence effectively becoming General Leslie Groves’ PR man. A new play by Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy - Atomic Bill and the Payment Due—delves into the story. READ MORE

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