The Strangest Dream
The next free Liberty Brew & View screening is part of a week of events around the International Day of Peace.
Tuesday, September 21, 7:00pm
Capital City Bar & Grill
3149 S. Dirksen Pkwy, Springfield
The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs which he co-founded to halt nuclear proliferation.
Nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat was branded a traitor and spy after walking away from the Manhattan Project, builders of the first atomic bomb. But, with Bertrand Russell, he went on to help create the modern peace movement and eventually to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
The film takes us from the site of the first nuclear test, in New Mexico, to Cairo, where contemporary Pugwash scientists meet under the cloud of nuclear proliferation, and to Hiroshima, where we see survivors of the first atomic attack. Featuring interviews with contemporaries of Rotblat, members of the Pugwash movement and passionate public figures including Senator Roméo Dallaire, The Strangest Dream demonstrates the renewed threat of nuclear weapons, while encouraging hope through the example of morally engaged scientists and citizens.