When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community had no history of protest against the bomb. That, he quickly discovered, was completely false. The Black community, in fact, has a long and rich history of organizing for peace and against nuclear weapons going back to Black radicals WEB DuBois and Paul Robeson during the early post WWII era. Patricia Kullberg speaks with Dr. Intondi, who traces peace activism among African-Americans over decades, how they linked the bomb to racism and colonialism, the ways they were smeared as communist dupes and how that generated splits within the movement. Dr. Intondi is the author of African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism and the Black Freedom Movement. He is the Executive Director of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and a research scholar at Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and has over twenty years of grassroots organizing, academic, and NGO experience.