Stars together with Julianne Moore, Jane Fonda and Emma Thompson have added their names to an open letter insisting upon nuclear disarmament from world leaders.
As Christopher Nolan’s hit biopic Oppenheimer, which tells of the person who created the atomic bomb, is predicted to dominate this weekend’s Oscars, a coalition of actors and activists has fashioned to teach folks in regards to the current nuclear hazard around the globe.
The letter reminds those who 13,000 nuclear weapons are held by 9 nations with some 80 occasions extra highly effective than those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
“As artists and advocates, we wish to increase our voices to remind those who whereas Oppenheimer is historical past, nuclear weapons should not,” the letter reads. “At a time of nice uncertainty, even one nuclear weapon – on land, beneath the ocean, within the air, or in area – is just too many. To guard our households, our communities, and our world, we should demand that world leaders work to make nuclear weapons historical past – and construct a brighter future.”
J Robert Oppenheimer’s grandson Charles has additionally added his identify to the letter together with some stars from the movie, together with Tony Goldwyn and Matthew Modine.
“Each particular person needs to be educated in regards to the unimaginable damaging energy of nuclear weapons,” Modine stated. “Understanding the risk illuminates a mandatory path towards their elimination.”
Different names embody Michael Douglas, Ellen Burstyn, Alan Cumming, Invoice Nye, Christoph Waltz, Lily Tomlin, Viggo Mortensen and Annie Lennox.
It’s a part of a brand new marketing campaign referred to as Makes Nukes Historical past, launched by the Nuclear Risk Initiative, which additionally features a billboard marketing campaign and artwork set up. With the Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday, about 1,000 posters throughout town will use the movie’s predicted success to attract consideration to the continuing drawback.
The Nuclear Risk Initiative CEO, Ernest J Moniz, who was as soon as the secretary of power, stated: “Robert Oppenheimer warned in opposition to creating much more highly effective weapons and predicted that harmful arms races would observe. He was proper.”
