Saturday, April 28, 2012

video refresher course: If You Love This Planet - Helen Caldicott on Nuclear War, 1982





this film was officially designated as "foreign political propaganda" by the U.S. Department of Justice and suppressed in the United States
This Oscar®-winning short film is comprised of a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic Dr. Helen Caldicott, president* of Physicians for Social Responsibility in the USA. Her message is clear: disarmament cannot be postponed. Archival footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and images of its survivors 7 months after the attack heighten the urgency of her message.


If You Love This Planet by Terre Nash - NFB: If You Love This Planet

* PSR Founder and President, 1978-1983 | President Emeritus, 1983-Present, Women’s Action for Nuclear


If You Love This Planet is a 1982 short documentary film recording a lecture given to SUNY Plattsburgh students by physician and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The movie was directed by Terre Nash and produced by Edward Le Lorrain for Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. Studio D head Kathleen Shannon was executive producer.

Released during the term of the Reagan administration and at the height of Cold War nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, If You Love This Planet was officially designated as "foreign political propaganda" by the U.S. Department of Justice and suppressed in the United States. The subsequent uproar over that action gave the film a publicity boost; it went on to win the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. It appears that the first cinema showing of the film in Britain did not occur until April 2008, when it was screened by the London Socialist Film Co-op.


If You Love This Planet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



links | see also

Helen Caldicott MD - website

Physicians for Social Responsibility | PSR

The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age - IME Video Library
Helen Caldicott MD | 04/19/2012 | 57 minutes
Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
University of Wisconsin

whats up: Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 | Downwinders | Nuclear Law

whats up: Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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