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If You Love This Planet

If You Love This Planet

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 1, 1982

Runtime

0h 26m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

If You Love This Planet

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Terre Nash

Description

Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for nuclear disarmament. The film includes newsreel records of the beginnings of the arms race and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as film records showing the Japanese who were severely scarred and burned in the bombings.