Screening and Discussion: Original Child Bomb
March 2, 2006
Screening and Discussion: Original Child Bomb
Linda Hoaglund (Senior Film Curator, Japan Society), Carey Schonegevel McKenzie (Director),
Greg Mitchell (Author)
304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Inspired by Thomas Merton’s poem, ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB shows the human cost of nuclear weapons. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are depicted through declassified footage, photographs, drawings and testimonies of mothers, brothers and soldiers. 
Ordinary people gaze upon the nuclear past and its terrifying present. They expose the political rhetoric surrounding “security” and “weapons of mass destruction.” The film is a wake-up call and an invitation to action.
