Hiroshima - the nuclear threat
6th August 1945, 8.15 clock local time. Hiroshima. The slightly hazy sky. Witness Karl Luhmer, Jesuit priest, then 26, was four miles from the explosion center: "I saw the fireball over the city ... red, yellow, purple, dazzling, dazzling ... the mushroom cloud ... then came the fire-storm and then the black rain . In this television documentary we meet the victims of the bomb and forty years experience fear and terror, as humanity on the verge of Nuclear-war stand. Terms such as the Iron Curtain, the Cold War balance of terror, flexible nuclear response, both sides assured destruction (Mutual Assured Destruction, MAD abekürzt) made the thoughtful citizens mad. The nuclear scientist Joseph Rotblat, the psychoanalyst Horst-Eberhard Richter, a former army Panzerkommandeuer Hartmut von Skribensky and ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, remember: The risk of nuclear war is not over.
"The massive death of me, which means the destruction of man am." Advice: Detlev Bald. With Prof: Charles Luhmer, Jesuit priest, Tetsuko Yamashita, Zuzuko Numate, Yoshito Matsushige, photographer, Professor Joseph Rotblat, founder of Pugwash, Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor, Horst-Eberhard Richter, psychoanalyst, founder of IPPNW, Hartmut von Skribensky, a former tank commander of the army. Thanks to the Hiroshima Peace Museum, the 10-foot movement, the National Archives of Washington and the Foerster-Archiv, Radolfzell (1999, 44 min).
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