A Commitment to Peace
In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of W.W.II forever changed the nature of warfare and how nations would relate to each other. War reached its zenith. A COMMITMENT TO PEACE looks closely at how the following Cold War years were complicated by personalities, ideologies, old fears and new visions. Unlocking the secrets of the universe would be relatively easy compared to finding the formula for peace. A COMMITMENT TO PEACE is illustrated with remarkable archival film and photography of nuclear weapons and testing. Featured are top nuclear physicists including Harold Agnew and Herbert York who served as directors of our top nuclear weapons labs at Los Alamos and Livermore. Also participating are top historians including Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes. Survivor of the atomic bombing in Japan, Shigeru Aoki poignantly describes the horrors he witnessed. A COMMITMENT TO PEACE is extremely relevant for today as America again grapples with national defense issues. This important history provides valuable insight into the need for peace in a highly technological world.
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were most defiantly defining moments in the twentieth century maybe a defining moment in human history. They made it clear in the most brutal way what this new discovery was about. Richard Rhodes, Author & Historian
The position I finally came to when I was working for Eisenhower, is that maintaining peace through the threat of mutual suicide is just not an acceptable way to go on into the future. Herbert York, 1st Director University California Radiation Laboratory-Livermore.
As time goes on, I am afraid more and more how people in government and positions of authority really won’t appreciate the magnitude of the potential devastation that our present nuclear weapons can inflict on any country or any city. Harold Agnew, Director LASL