‘Silent Fallout’ screening, discussion with director Hideaki Ito Sunday
OCEAN CITY – The public is invited to a special event with acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hideaki Ito from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the Ocean City Free Public Library. Director Ito will be screening his film, “Silent Fallout,” followed by a question and answer session. “Silent Fallout” addresses one of the world’s […]
‘Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak’
Japanese film about nuclear contamination with local connections being screened in U.S. Editor’s note: To schedule a screening of the film “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak” with director Hideaki Ito, email burkeshiho@gmail.com or sachi.com@goldensachi.com. OCEAN CITY — A powerful Japanese film about the impact of radioactive fallout from American nuclear bomb testing will be making […]
Editor’s Desk: ‘This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.’
Neville Shute’s 1957 novel, “On the Beach,” is about how people in Australia wait and prepare for deadly radioactive fallout, swirling around the world after a nuclear war, to finally reach their distant shores. I read that in middle school while the Cold War was still raging. It added to my apprehension about how a […]
Ocean City’s Joseph Mangano heads Radiation and Public Health Project
Book inspired movie ‘Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak’ OCEAN CITY — The Baby Tooth Project initiated in 1958 examined how children across the United States were absorbing a radioactive element because of fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada and distant islands in the Pacific. Ocean City’s Joseph Mangano is executive director of the Radiation and […]
Shiho (Kikuzaki) Burke’s activism spurred by what happened to her family in Hiroshima bombing
OCEAN CITY — Shiho (Kikuzaki) Burke’s peace activism is personal. Her family was in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the first nuclear weapon on the city Aug. 6, 1945 to end World War II. She got involved with director Hideaki Ito’s film “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak” because she share’s the director’s vision. Shiho is […]