White Dove of Peace © Rob Palmer


This page will be developed further soon, but in the meantime, please see the links below and the suggestions for excellent DVDs on these topics, suitable for general viewers and for use by teachers.


Recommended DVDs:

Last Best Chance
Shown on HBO, produced by the Nuclear Threat Institute
Available free currently at
http://www.lastbestchance.org/

Nuclear Weapons and the Human Future: How You Can Make a Difference
Produced by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Available free currently at
http://www.wagingpeace.org/nuc_weapons_human_future.php

The following DVDs are available via Amazon and other DVD and booksellers

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
This is a powerful movie with actors such as Max von Sydow, Tamlyn Tomita, Judd Nelson, Mako, and Stan Egi. The characters include a range of experiences among those where where there at the time of the bombing: American aircrewmen, Catholic priests, a Japanese-American woman, and Japanese doctors, and Japanese children. 1990.

Hiroshima Maiden
A beautiful yet appropriately striking movie appropriate for children (produced by Feature Films for Families) that tells the story of a young woman affected by the bombing of Hiroshima and the Americans family who volunteers to be her host family when she comes to the U.S. for surgery. This movie puts you right in the middle of 1950s America, complete with boys wearing coon skin caps and playing World War II, and shows the impact of increasing understanding about what nuclear weapons are really about. Staring Tamlyn Tomita. 1988.


Excellent Websites:

Article in The Wall Street Journal, 8 January 2007, by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=8592

Physicians for Social Responsibility
http://www.psr.org

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
http://www.ippnw.org/

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
http://www.wagingpeace.org/

Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/

The Nuclear Threat Institute
http://www.nti.org/

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum:
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/index_e2.html

Information on post-Hiroshima nuclear testing in the area that became the Republic of the Marshall Islands:
http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Nuclear%20Issues.htm
http://www.bravoforthemarshallese.com/
Consequential Damages of Nuclear War The Rongelap Report

A wonderful option for taking action toward peace is the organization founded by Greg Mortenson, Pennies for Peace:
http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html

The online peer-reviewed journal, Japan Focus, has many excellent articles about nuclear and other issues throughout Asia and the Pacific:
http://www.japanfocus.org/

Dr. James N. Yamazaki was the lead physician of the 1949 U.S. Atomic Bomb Medical Team that studied the nuclear effects on children in Nagasaki. His book, Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands, tells of his work. His eyewitness report and call to save the world’s children can be found at his UCLA website. Now in his 90s, he is still speaking out for humankind facing nuclear destruction: “Their tragedy has left a lifelong impact on me…. Today, an enormous nuclear disaster simmers that must not be allowed to ignite.”
http://www.childrenoftheatomicbomb.com/

The Peace and Justice Studies Association is dedicated to bringing together K-12 teachers, grassroots activities, university researchers, and policy folks to explore alternatives to violence and share visions and strategies for peacebuilding, social justice, and social change. PJSA serves as a professional association for scholars in the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, and it is the North-American affiliate of the International Peace Research Association. PJSA's 2008 Conference, "Building Cultures of Peace," held in Portland, Oregon, September 11-13, will explore historical, current and potential future elements of the struggles toward peace and justice. For more information, go to:
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/



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