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Forgotten Bomb (2010)
Powerful plea for Sanity
The Forgotten Bomb is a powerful plea for some rational awareness and policy decisions concerning the unstable and dangerous reality of huge nuclear arsenals armed and poised to be use by nine countries around the world. Some reviewers have focused on the attention to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the accounts of survivors, and whether or not the U.S. was justified in using nuclear weapons. I believe that the real points to take from this information and these memories in the film are a) that the United States is the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another population, so a wee bit of humility is in order; and b) that the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were infinitesimal compared to the destructive power of one of today's missiles, meaning the death, destruction, misery and horrors after the fact for any survivor would be accordingly magnified. So the message that we must find a way to reduce, control and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons is timely and urgent and the only sane course for us to take. "It ain't gonna happen!" is one response, but for the sake of our children and grandchildren we have to try.