August 7, 7p.m., Peace Center of Delaware County Just-Reel Free Movie Series to Show "Fat Man & Little Boy", marking anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Friday, August 7  -  Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
127 minutes   Directed by Roland Joffee ("The Killing Fields", "The Mission")                                                                                  Starring Paul Newman as General Leslie R. Groves and Dwight Schultz as J. Robert Oppenheimer
with John Cusak, Laura Dern and Natasshia Richardson.      Rated PG-13

As the world remembers the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9, 1945, come to the Peace Center of Delaware County on August 7 to see where and how it all began.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another." - J.Robert Oppenheimer, witnessing the first test of an atomic bomb, code-named "Trinity", July 16, 1944.

Three weeks later, on August 6 and 9, 1945, the world's first atomic bombs were dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was nicknamed "Little Boy", the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was nicknamed "Fat Man" for Winston Churchill.

"FAT MAN & LITTLE BOY" dramatically and with precise historical detail tells the story of the Manhattan Project, which developed and built the world's first atomic bombs. In thematic narrative, the film introduces us to the project and people which developed the horror of nuclear weapons, from the inception of the Manhattan Project to the "Trinity" test blast. We are left to imagine at film's end the horror of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the world of threatened nuclear annihilation in which we still live.

Accompanying the film at the Peace Center of Delaware County will be a large pictorial display from Japan of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, their after-effects, and the continuing threat posed by nuclear weaponry.