Activists distributed 2,500 flyers denouncing the White House arms race.
Washington, Aug 7 (RHC) Peace groups in the city of New Haven urged the U.S. government to halt its enormous military spending and put a stop to the danger of nuclear war that looms over the world today.
The activists distributed 2,500 flyers denouncing the White House's arms race during the four-day screening in the Connecticut city of 'Oppenhaimer', the film written and directed by Christopher Nolan that narrates the life of the so-called father of the atomic bomb.
The flyers -prepared by members of the CodePink organization in the New Haven metro area- were handed out at the exit of the Criterion movie theater in that city.
With Oppenheimer, I was struck by how surprised those leaving the theater were, since they were unaware of many aspects of the weapons of mass extermination," José Oro, a Cuban engineer living in New Haven, told Prensa Latina.
I see this feature film (premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on July 11 and in theaters in the United States and the United Kingdom on July 21) as a great opportunity to convey messages of peace, he said.
Many people around the world will have the chance to see the film and it will be good because seldom does the media here talk about anything more serious than a movie star's divorce or "Barbie" (another upcoming film), said the activist.
Oppenheimer conveys a powerful anti-nuclear message that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to sleep peacefully after watching it, he added.
The 2023 British-American thriller biopic chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project in the World War II era (1939-1945) and thus ushered in the Atomic Age.
He considered that just now the world remembers the victims of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9) and in this context Oppenheimer's role takes on greater connotation.
The atomic bombs in seconds destroyed both Japanese cities and left tens of thousands of dead, wounded and people with serious consequences, said one of the messages read in the flyers. For Oro, Oppenheimer should be screened free of charge at the Capitol and the White House, in Washington DC, for those who "are bent on spending 1.7 trillion dollars in the next decades on new nuclear weapons to kill us all, or almost all of us", he warned. (Source: PL)
