In Search of Resolution
On the 16th of July 1945 at 5:26 am, in southern New Mexico, the test explosion of “Trinity”, marked the beginning of the Nuclear Age, followed just three weeks later by two atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 human beings, leaving a scar on humanity. Since the very beginning of the nuclear age, some of the scientists who created the nuclear bomb, called for its abolition. William Johnston, a Catholic priest in Japan, summed up what is the ongoing reality “In short, a titanic struggle is raging in the collective unconscious of humanity”. The goal of this documentary is to tell that story in narrative form, with the voices of those involved in dealing with this ongoing struggle. It is not just about the continuing presence of the nuclear weapon held in the arsenals of nine nations, which now includes the modernization of these powerful tools of war, making the weapons even more dangerous.
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As the third film of The Nuclear World Project, In Search of Resolution is an exploration of the continuing story, now over three-quarters of a century old, in this drama little understood and rarely reported, addressing the question why do these weapons still exist? The film looks to the future, profiling individuals and organizations working to answer the question, regardless which side of the story they are on; trying to ensure the weapons are never used in war, to present paths and ideas in resolving the ongoing conundrum, in dealing with the most destructive weapon even invented before it is too late. As Albert Einstein said, “no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” Einstein should know, he was one of the scientists responsible for the nuclear bomb. As one of the voices heard in this documentary says "If you don't have peace, than you cannot have disarmament. And the question is what do you put first, peace before disarmament or disarmament as a condition for peace. And that is basically the conundrum." Towards the conclusion of the documentary the following statement “and I have seen the horrible consequences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when two weeks ago I met with the survivors, and the stories they told me about being four or five years old and seeing the explosions above their heads and all the families being killed and houses destroyed, and the consequences that they had throughout their live is something no other human beings should have to go through.
These thoughts and ideas presented in the documentary: ”In Search of Resolution” is meant to stir ideas for anyone watching and hearing the stories told by those, as way to stir anyone to at least understand the challenges humankind faces in the 21st century. Another thought Presented “If we don’t do something about it, nuclear weapons are going to be used, and that actually really frightens me. It is an exclusively human made problem that only requires human will”
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A conversation with filmmaker Robert Frye
[Robert E. Frye is an Emmy Award-winning producer and director of news and documentaries. His most recent film, “In Search of Resolution,” is the third in a series on the continuing challenge of dealing with nuclear weapons. It was preceded by “In My Lifetime” in 2013 and “The Nuclear Requiem” in 2016. Earlier in his career… READ MORE