Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Viggo Mortesen, Julianne Moore AND Emma Thompsontogether with other film and music stars, they state in an open letter that “one nuclear weapon is too many” and call for disarmament as part of a campaign that has Oppenheimer’s film as its banner.
Charles Oppenheimer, nephew of the scientist Robert Oppenheimer, who was fundamental in the development of the first atomic weapons and ended up warning of the danger they posed for Humanity, is another of the signatories of this open letter of the “Make Nukes History” campaign in history of nuclear weapons) launched by the organization The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NIT).
The campaign seeks to raise public awareness of the nuclear threat in the wake of the film’s success Oppenheimerby Christopher Nolan, who has 13 candidates at the Oscars held on March 10 in Los Angeles.
“Oppenheimer describes the story of the origin of nuclear weapons, the history of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Oppenheimer’s subsequent warnings against an arms race and the development of even more powerful weapons. Oppenheimer was right to warn us,” read the open letter published by the newspaper on Thursday Los Angeles Times.
The signatories, including the singer Annie Lennox and the actress Kristen Stewartlet us remember that currently “nine countries possess 13,000 nuclear weapons. Some are 80 times more powerful than those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945”.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s warning
“Oppenheimer,” starring Cillian Murphy, has 13 Oscar nominations. Photo: Universal Pictures via APThey also cite the warning of the assassinated American President John F. Kennedy at the United Nations in 1961: “Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet will no longer be habitable.”
“Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the thinnest thread, capable of being cut at any moment by chance, miscalculation or madness”, underline these artists who try with their open letter to remember That “While Oppenheimer is history, nuclear weapons are not”.
“In times of great uncertainty, even one nuclear weapon – on land, sea, air or space – is too many. To protect our families, our communities and our world, we must ask world leaders to work to make nuclear weapons disappear. nuclear weapons. enter history and build a better future”, they add before asking people to join this campaign “before our luck runs out”.
Viggo Mortensen is one of the actors in the open letter from celebrities calling for disarmament. Photo: EFE/Enrique García MedinaOn Friday 8 March, as part of the campaign, a large art installation will be inaugurated at the Original Farmers Market, near The Grove in Los Angeles, from where Prominent TikTokers with millions of followers will record live videos with anti-nuclear contentwe read in a statement from the organization.
Antinuclear education
“Every person should be informed about the incredible destructive power of nuclear weapons. Understanding the threat illuminates a necessary path towards its elimination,” the actor said. Matteo Modinemember of the award-winning cast of Oppenheimer.
NIT points out that Modine produced the new documentary Downwind on the impact of nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War.
Emma Thompson, another of the actresses who signed the anti-nuclear manifesto. Photo: Jane Barlow / POOL / AFP“Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been directly harmed by the radioactive fallout from hundreds of nuclear explosions carried out on American soil. From the moment of the first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos, New Mexico, our entire planet has been at risk. We must stop this madness,” he says in the statement.
Source: EFE
Source: Clarin
