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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - Silent War - In The Shadows of #AtomicBombs

Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE

Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS

Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutes

"80 years after the atomic bombs and the beginning of the #ColdWar, the fear of #NuclearWar is back. Does Europe need more nuclear independence today? Must we re-define nuclear deterrence? Will old and new superpowers force their will upon the rest of the world by "protecting" conventional wars with their nuclear arsenals? And, do we even have the political vocabulary for a new world order that threatens to end the long peace since the end of the last World War – or are we already in a new war?

"SILENT WAR debunks the narratives about atomic bombs, nuclear deterrence and the Cold War, in occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack in 2025. SILENT WAR is based on groundbreaking research by nuclear historian Robert 'Bo'Jacobs, and his book '#NuclearBodies', acclaimed as one of the most important contributions to the history of atomic weapons and the Cold War.' "

cc: @bojacobs

FMI and trailer:
https://silentwar.outremerfilm.com/silentwar.html

#BoJacobs #Hiroshima #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

SILENT WAR

More than 2000 atomic explosions since 1945 and millions of victims - this is the unknown legacy of the atomic bomb and the Cold War. A story that began in 1945 and that 80 years later, in 2025, impacts our world as never before.

Brian Small Jul 10, 2023

.> we make these waste-siting decisions. Our structure for determining and executing the most well-designed deep geological storage facilities for our spent nuclear fuel is based explicitly on the current delineation of our political boundaries. In other words, Finland must dispose of Finnish nuclear waste in Finland; America must dispose of American nuclear waste in America; Japan must dispose of Japanese nuclear waste in Japan. This seems natural since the waste was generated within the boundaries of these political systems. The electricity or weaponry was manufactured for the benefit of the citizens of those states, and the responsibility for the disposal of that waste is the burden of the benefited citizens of those nations. While that makes sense to us, it makes less sense in terms of disposing the waste. When we look at Japan, there is no suitable place to establish a deep geological storage site inside of Japan.....> ... One may say that Japan should have considered such a dilemma before it chose to generate nuclear waste, much as one may ask that question about the endeavor globally, but such questions are beside the point: the waste is here, the waste will also be there—in the future. What is the best strategy to mitigate risk to ourselves and future generations?.> The Japanese government has determined the “best” locations for its proposed deep geological storage site.73 The designated sites are considered “better” than other sites. That does not make them good, it just makes them (by some measure) the best of a bad lot... From _Nuclear Bodies： The Global Hibakusha_ by #RobertAJacobs
\HT @bojacobs

#NuclearBodies #GlobalHibakuSha #NuclearWaste #NuclearWasteStorage #NuclearWasteBurial

The EMBO Journal Dec 20, 2022

How does #chromatin reader #TRIM33 control #developmental #cellfate decisions?

Qiaoran Xi Lab at Tsinghua University finds that its embryonic #stemcell-specific recruitment into #PML #nuclearbodies regulates #Lefty1/2 expression upon #Nodal signaling

https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112058