Atomic Mom (2010)
81 min
Atomic Mom is a feature length documentary about two women, both mothers, who have very different experiences of the atom bomb. One is my mother, Pauline Silvia, who was a Navy biologist in the early 1950's and was sent to the Nevada Test Site where she witnessed five detonations. After decades of silence, she is in a crisis of conscience about the work she did. The other woman is Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor who was eight years old when the bomb was dropped. Knowing the work that Pauline did, Emiko offers her an olive branch with a beautifully potent message of peace.
- Release date
- October 10, 2010
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Howard Lukk as Voice-over
- Emiko Okada
- M.T. Silvia
- Pauline Silvia
Crew
- M.T. Silvia · Director
- M.T. Silvia · Producer
- Rick Butler · Cinematographer
- Jennifer Chinlund · Editor