MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 to 1956. Other branches of the military conducted their own research too; even as they entertained Las Vegas toursits they exposed military personnel and those down-wind of the Nevada blast zones to radiation. Back then MT Silvia was a peace- and anti-nuclear activist. Today she is producer and director of the award-winning documentary, Atomic Mom (http://atomicmom.org/) exploring the past with her mother who had never before talked about her work. Atomic Mom includes interviews with Hibakasha and doctors, engineers, and others and shares footage of bombed-destroyed Hiroshima, atom-bomb pop culture and "novelty music", and other crazy propaganda of the time. This wide-ranging interview with MT Silvia highlights the sobering reality that still threatens our world.
Listen to Other Raising Sand Radio shows on nuclear weapons and energy: Obama, Stop Building Nuclear Weapons: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/44769 (Read the article: Calls to End the False Security of Nuclear Weapons: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/09-2 (Read the article: Rationalizing the Bombing of Hiroshima: http://www.counterpunch.org/galleymore08052010.html Western States Legal Foundation's Jackie Carbasso and Nuclear Free Future: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/28601 US Senate Aide - and Others - Contend, âThe Bombing of Hiroshima was Rightâ: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/44616 Western States Legal Foundation's Andrew Lichtermann on US/India Agreement: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/29711 63rd Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/28706
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