In commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Mothers for Peace is hosting the film screening of Silent Fallout. Learn about radiation poisoning and nuclear contamination in the U.S. and beyond. You will have the opportunity to meet the director, Hideaki Ito.
Monday, August 12 The doors will open at 5:00pm to gather for conversation and light refreshments. The film will begin at 5:30pm.
Unitarian Universalists San Luis Obispo, 2201 Lawton Avenue
Reserve your seat through Eventbrite – or just show up! Admission is free. Donations are welcome!
From acclaimed Japanese director Hideaki Ito comes the untold stories of the victims of nuclear testing in America—and the account of one mother who risked her career to expose the dangers of radiation poisoning. In 1951, nuclear weapons testing began on the U.S. mainland. Growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s in suburban Utah, Mary Dickson began noticing her elementary school classmates dying strange and unusual deaths. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away in St. Louis, Dr. Louise Reiss began collecting baby teeth from other mothers in her community. Through studying these teeth, Reiss found that American children—not just the so-called “downwinders”—had been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Silent Fallout traces these stories and others, journeying from Salt Lake City, to Virginia, to Missouri, to the United Kingdom, and to Japan, exposing the complicated truth behind the bomb. With narration by Alec Baldwin, this movie is a must-see for anyone who wants to go beyond Oppenheimer and discover a dark period in history whose effects still reverberate today.
Silent Fallout is more than a film. The team is working hard to spread the word about radiation poisoning and nuclear contamination in the U.S. and beyond.