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Bo Jacobs

I’ve been collaborating on a project for a #documentary film about #nuclear testing and the global hibakusha. The full film will be out in the fall, but there is a shorter, German version being screened this week on @ZDF in Germany, and streaming on their site. You can watch it here and click on the subtitles in your own language. The later film will be in English.

@histodons @sts #Hiroshima #ColdWar

vimeo.com/1101618091/973040296

VimeoIm Schatten der Bombe - Silent War (click CC for subtitles)please click on CC for subtitles (these are automatic subtitles, usually they're not very good) IN THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB - 80 YEARS OF HIROSHIMA A film by…
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That Other Place

@Kay The song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" always reminds me of this great scene in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three" (1961):

youtube.com/watch?v=heAxSmpW0S8

The film was actually forbidden in Finland at the time, for political reasons, and it was first shown in Finnish movie theaters only in the 1980s.

YouTubeOne Two Three 1961 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot BikiniBy X Time Goes By
#music#movies#censorship
Dr. John Barentine FRAS

I am pleased to report that my paper on the history of the early 1960's U.S. Project West Ford is published today in the Journal for the #History of Astronomy.

In short, at the height of the #ColdWar, the U.S. military proposed the test of a passive microwave relay system in near-Earth orbital space that posed a very real threat to ground- and space-based #astronomy. Astronomers were pretty upset at the prospect, and they banded together to use the bully pulpit of public opinion to change the direction of the test. Project West Ford relates to the modern international #SpacePolicy framework through its influence on what became the Outer Space Treaty a few years later.

The forceful response of the astronomy community more than 60 years ago offers distinct lessons for how that same community might confront the ongoing threat of large satellite constellations and rapidly proliferating #SpaceDebris.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HZ

#Space#SpaceEnvironment
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 15, 1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four other Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg, of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, was 1 of the signers. A new Mainau Declaration was signed in 2015. This one calls for urgent action on the Climate Crisis.

Part of the original Mainau Declaration reads as follows: “We do not deny that perhaps peace is being preserved precisely by the fear of these weapons. Nevertheless, we think it is a delusion if governments believe that they can avoid war for a long time through the fear of these weapons. Fear and tension have often engendered wars. Similarly, it seems to us a delusion to believe that small conflicts could in the future always be decided by traditional weapons. In extreme danger no nation will deny itself the use of any weapon that scientific technology can produce. All nations must come to the decision to renounce force as a final resort. If they are not prepared to do this, they will cease to exist.”

While both threats remain, the nuclear threat will destroy the planet, and life on it, much more suddenly. And the U.S. and Western European powers, including Israel, seem much more prepared to use them than any time in the past. Indeed, in part because of this increasing willingness to use nuclear weapons, willingness to escalate military conflicts that risk nuclear miscalculation, and the rapid proliferation of a new nuclear arms race between the U.S., Russia, and China, in 2023 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (founded by Einstein and Oppenheimer in 1945) pushed the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever come to Armageddon (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis it was at 2 min. before midnight). And then, in 2024, advanced it further, still, to 89 seconds before midnight. The first paragraph of their current status warning reads:

“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.”
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nukes #nuclearweapons #bomb #nobel#peace #coldwar #russia #china #imperialism #cubanmissilecrisis #ukraine #armsrace #einstein #Oppenheimer #Heisenberg #ClimateCrisis #armageddon

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