Annie Lennox carries out onstage throughout the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 4, 2024 in Los Angeles. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
In the run-up to the Oscars on Sunday (March 10), a union of stars, artists and lobbyists will certainly release an open letter to Hollywood on the value of Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer and the real-life hazards of nuclear battle.
The union consists of participants of Oppenheimer‘s cast and crew, as well as such bold-faced names as Annie Lennox, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, Emma Thompson, Jane Fonda, Julianne Moore, Lily Tomlin, Michael Douglas, Rosanna Arquette and Viggo Mortensen. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s grand son, lobbyist Charles Oppenheimer, additionally joined this call-to-action. The letter will certainly be published on MakeNukesHistory.org Wednesday (March 6), and will certainly be published in a complete web page advertisement in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times.
Under the heading “An Open Letter to Hollywood on Oppenheimer and Nuclear War,” the advertisement claims, partially:
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“Oppenheimer illustrates the beginning tale of nuclear tools, the background of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Oppenheimer’s succeeding cautions versus an arms race and the advancement of much more effective tools. Oppenheimer was best to advise us.
“Today, 13,000 nuclear tools are held by 9 nations. Some are 80 times a lot more effective than the ones that ruined Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
“As musicians and supporters, we wish to elevate our voices to advise individuals that while Oppenheimer is background, nuclear tools are not.
“At a time of great uncertainty, even one nuclear weapon — on land, under the sea, in the air, or in space — is too many. To protect our families, our communities, and our world, we must demand that global leaders work to make nuclear weapons history — and build a brighter future. Please join us — before our luck runs out.”
This becomes part of a multipronged “Make Nukes History” project introducing today, leveraging the interest on Oppenheimer to raise the discussion regarding the nuclear danger.
This week, signboards, murals and wheatpastes are appearing around Hollywood, promoting the threats of nukes. In the coming days, there will certainly be an art setup at the Original Farmers Market near The Grove in Los Angeles. Backed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit, the project intends to elevate understanding regarding the threats postured by today’s nuclear collections.
The project is occurring throughout Los Angeles and consists of, along with signboards, a mural in West Hollywood and greater than 1,000 road posters, announcing “Oppenheimer Started It, We Can End It” and “13 Oppenheimer Nominations; 13,000 Nuclear Weapons.”
For even more info on the project and to check out the open letter, browse through MakeNukesHistory.org
Some of these signees to the open letter have actually been anti-nuclear lobbyists for years. Nash and Browne were amongst the coordinators of No Nukes/The MUSE Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future, which were kept in September 1979 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Fonda additionally took part in that occasion. A triple-disk online cd from the performances was launched in late 1979 and made the leading 20 on the Billboard 200.
Douglas and Fonda starred in the 1979 thriller The China Syndrome, regarding an imaginary crash at a nuclear reactor. The movie, which Douglas generated, was launched theatrically on March 16, 1979, 12 days prior to the Three Mile Island nuclear crash showed that the movie’s facility was not unlikely.
