Everyone’s favourite Canadian awards, the Geminis (in case you wondered) were presented yesterday, including Halifax filmmaker Eric Bednarski’s The Strangest Dream, which won in the category of “Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series.”
The film recounts the story of “Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.” Bednarski, of course, is super-thrilled but wasn’t around to accept the award. He’s in Warsaw working on Neon, a film about communist-era propaganda neon signs, and he’s also writing a book about Pugwash.
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.
Some things should never have been invented, but once they are invented, how do you uninvent them? Maybe one day we will need a rediculously large atomic bomb to save the world from an even worse disaster…Sadam Hussein didn’t force the US to invent the Mother of All Bombs, the Russians did that many years before.. and when they tested it, the earth rang like a bell.