I was interviewed along with other scholars and activists about the film “#Oppenheimer" in today's edition of the Chugoku Shimbun, our local newspaper here in Hiroshima.
My general take as reported here is that the film essentially repeats the decades old American narrative of the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki. It tells a story about Americans and not Japanese people. It is a story about great scientists, great technology and great industrial capacity. It is a story about American exceptionalism, and not about the use of weapons of mass destruction against a civilian population.
Good Work! I was hoping to find a higher resolution at the link for the HIroshima Peace Media Center.. Or maybe text to copy-paste... The closest thing I was able to find didn't have the same people.. If I can cut five or six sections out of a higher resolution image all the sweet old local anti-nuke people in my FB feed might find it easier to read..
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