Saturday, August 16, 1:00PM to 5:00PM, Upper East Side, NYC
Hiroshima and Gaza — Never Again! (In-Person & Online)
From Tragedy To Reconciliation and Hope - Lessons for Today - Film, Play and Panel Discussion with Author Dr. Mikamo and International Peace Activists
Link to 8:15 Hiroshima Trailer
Live Broadcast Schedule
Note: This program will only be shown live. Any recording or rebroadcasting of the film, play or panel discussion film are strictly prohibited.
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Check-in Registration
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Greeting & Film Screening "8:15 Hiroshima—From Father to Daughter”
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Panel Discussion with Executive Producer, Author Dr. Akiko Mikamo and Others
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM - Showing of Play "The Face of Jizo"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Book Signing with Dr. Mikamo
About The Event
On August 16th, 2025 in NYC, from 1pm to 5pm, Humanity for Peace, in collaboration with Liberty Speaks, The Schiller Institute and the International Peace Coalition will be co-sponsoring a special event, as part of the international commemorations in honor and memory of the victims of the horrific atomic bombings 80 years ago of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We will be showing a film and a play, which both center on the themes of resilience, forgiveness, and the journey of recovery from horrendous trauma --the pathway to peace. The film, “8:15 Hiroshima—From Father to Daughter,” and a book by the same name, is based on a first-hand account of Shinji Mikamo’s experience, as told by his daughter, Dr. Akiko Mikamo, a Japanese psychologist, author, and executive producer of the film. Dr. Mikamo's father, Shinji was less than a mile away from the epicenter of the nuclear bomb and miraculously survived. The film presents the horrifying reality of nuclear war from Shinji’s perspective, but also explores the basis upon which future wars can be avoided, through love, forgiveness, and compassion for the other.
The play, "The Face of Jizo," beautifully recounts the story of a young "Hibakusha" (atomic bomb survivor) and poignantly illustrates why we must not only say but mean "Never Again!"
Such a message has rarely been presented to the population. It has also never been more needed than now, on the 80th anniversary of the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those actions have never been properly understood by the majority of the American public. More importantly, among delusional members of the War Party, there is a still-unaccepted truth about nuclear warfare. That truth was declared by former President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at their summit in Geneva in 1985: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
That declaration between the world’s largest nuclear powers has been forgotten by many prominent officials within the U.S. military-industrial-financial complex. For example, during an event at the Center of Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., on Nov. 20, 2024, Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan, spokesman for the Pentagon’s Strategic Command, wildly asserted that, “If we have an exchange then we want to do it in terms that are most acceptable to the United States,” and further stating that the U.S. would still have enough nuclear weapons left over to have the U.S. “continue leading globally.”
In reality, if a single nuclear weapon were to be used today—even a low-yield “tactical” nuke—entire arsenals of nations would then be detonated in a global thermonuclear exchange, leading to the end of all life on the planet. In 1962, President John Kennedy, against the advice of his Joint Chiefs of Staff who were urging him to launch a military invasion into Cuba, launched back-channel negotiations together with his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, to resolve the Cuban Missile crisis diplomatically with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. We must, once again, use diplomacy to resolve tensions between nations, and form a new security and development architecture which takes into account the interests of not just one global superpower, but all nations.
Between the film and the play, we will have an important panel discussion with author Dr. Akiko Mikamo, Schiller Institute Chair Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) founder Ray McGovern, Actor Eddy Toru, and John Steinbach.