To mark the 70th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 and 9 August 2015), animator Amber Cooper-Davies, disarmament educator Kathleen Sullivan, and a team of talented musicians have produced this beautiful short film tracing the history of the nuclear age. Poignant and uplifting, it is both an educational resource and outstanding work of art.
It begins in the 1940s with the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb in the United States, and ends with a call for governments and individuals to support ICAN’s efforts to achieve a global treaty banning nuclear weapons. The film is dedicated “to all hibakusha everywhere” – the victims and survivors of the nuclear age. “If we can live together, with strength and love, we can make no more hibakusha.”
Segments of the animation were originally produced for a concert held in New York City on 2 May during the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations. Organized by Youth Arts New York and Hibakusha Stories, it was titled “With Love to Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Concert for Disarmament”. The photographs of the evening below were taken by Paule Saviano.
