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DESCRIPTION:Everyone who desires a far better world: join us to discuss what is 
 provoked by the upcoming release of Oppenheimer; plan to see the film, and 
 bring your ideas and questions. Put before people, and right at the film 
 showings, the new Declaration from the Revcoms.\n\nOn Thursday, July 20, 
 Oppenheimer, a major motion picture based on the life of Robert 
 Oppenheimer, will open all across the U.S. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a 
 theoretical physicist, was instrumental in the development of the world's 
 first atomic bomb in the 1940s as part of what was called the Manhattan 
 Project.\n\nJuly 16, 1945, “Trinity”, the first test of the atomic bomb 
 blasted “successfully” across the New Mexico desert. A few weeks later, 
 on August 6, a blazing, million-degree fireball suddenly appeared just 
 above the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing, burning alive, or 
 vaporizing tens of thousands. Firestorms engulfed the city. Shockwaves and 
 winds over 1,000 miles an hour came next, shattering bodies and buildings, 
 hurling men, women, and children through the air. Nearly all structures 
 were destroyed over a mile from ground zero. 140,000 people, almost all 
 civilians died in Hiroshima. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on 
 Nagasaki.\n\nThe dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan was a fitting 
 ghastly start to what the U.S. Imperialist have called “the American 
 century." Never a word of regret from the US government for this crime 
 against humanity, and the U.S. still has first use of nuclear weapons 
 enshrined in its military doctrine.\n\nThis film is coming out at a time 
 when the world is closer to world war, to nuclear Armaggedon, than it has 
 been for decades. The U.S. is escalating its proxy war with nuclear-armed 
 Russia over Ukraine; it is also ramping up its military threats and war 
 preparations against China, which also has nuclear weapons. This is a time 
 of grave existential danger to humanity and the planet.\n\nBut this is 
 also a period of intensifying tearing apart of U.S. society, with the 
 rulers at the top at each other's throats—a rare time when there is also 
 a greater chance to make emancipating revolution.\n\nNo World War 3—It Is 
 This System, Not Humanity\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/18/18857402.php
SUMMARY:Discussion of the Film Oppenheimer
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/18/18857402.php
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