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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/267522/
SUMMARY:Hiroshima and Gaza- Never Again! [In Person] "8:15" Film & Panel Di
 scussion
DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\, NY\n\n\n\nOn August 16th\, 2025 in NYC\, from 1pm to
  5pm\, Humanity for Peace\, in collaboration with Liberty Speaks\, The Sch
 iller Institute and the International Peace Coalition will be co-sponsorin
 g a special event\, as part of the international commemorations in honor a
 nd memory of the victims of the horrific atomic bombings 80 years ago of H
 iroshima and Nagasaki. We will be showing a film and a play\, which both c
 enter on the themes of resilience\, forgiveness\, and the journey of recov
 ery from horrendous trauma --the pathway to peace. The film\, “8:15 Hiro
 shima—From Father to Daughter\,” and the book\, "8:15 - A True Story o
 f Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima\," is based on a first-hand acco
 unt of Shinji Mikamo’s experience\, as told by his daughter\, Dr. Akiko 
 Mikamo\, a Japanese psychologist\, author\, and executive producer of the 
 film. Dr. Mikamo's father\, Shinji was less than a mile away from the epic
 enter of the nuclear bomb and miraculously survived. The film presents the
  horrifying reality of nuclear war from Shinji’s perspective\, but also 
 explores the basis upon which future wars can be avoided\, through love\, 
 forgiveness\, and compassion for the other.\n\nThe play\, "The Face of Jiz
 o\," beautifully recounts the story of a young "Hibakusha" (atomic bomb su
 rvivor) and poignantly illustrates why we must not only say but mean "Neve
 r Again!"\n\nSuch a message has rarely been presented to the population. I
 t has also never been more needed than now\, on the 80th anniversary of th
 e use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those actions have nev
 er been properly understood by the majority of the American public. More i
 mportantly\, among delusional members of the War Party\, there is a still-
 unaccepted truth about nuclear warfare. That truth was declared by former 
 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at their summi
 t in Geneva in 1985: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be foug
 ht.”\n\nThat declaration between the world’s largest nuclear powers ha
 s been forgotten by many prominent officials within the U.S. military-indu
 strial-financial complex. For example\, during an event at the Center of S
 trategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.\, on Nov. 20\, 2024\
 , Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan\, spokesman for the Pentagon’s Strategic 
 Command\, wildly asserted that\, “If we have an exchange then we want to
  do it in terms that are most acceptable to the United States\,” and fur
 ther stating that the U.S. would still have enough nuclear weapons left ov
 er to have the U.S. “continue leading globally.”\n\nIn reality\, if a 
 single nuclear weapon were to be used today—even a low-yield “tactical
 ” nuke—entire arsenals of nations would then be detonated in a global 
 thermonuclear exchange\, leading to the end of all life on the planet. In 
 1962\, President John Kennedy\, against the advice of his Joint Chiefs of 
 Staff who were urging him to launch a military invasion into Cuba\, launch
 ed back-channel negotiations together with his brother\, Robert F. Kennedy
 \, to resolve the Cuban Missile crisis diplomatically with Soviet Premier 
 Nikita Khrushchev. We must\, once again\, use diplomacy to resolve tension
 s between nations\, and form a new security and development architecture w
 hich takes into account the interests of not just one global superpower\, 
 but all nations.\n\nBetween the film and the play\, we will have an import
 ant panel discussion with author Dr. Akiko Mikamo\, Schiller Institute Cha
 ir Helga Zepp-LaRouche\, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VI
 PS) founder Ray McGovern\, Actor Eddy Toru and others on how we might achi
 eve durable peace in these times.\n\nThe event will be held in a theater o
 n the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The venue details will be emailed once
  tickets are purchased.\n\nLink to official film trailer for "8:15 Hiroshi
 ma—From Father to Daughter"
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