The false protection of wishful thinking

While the film Oppenheimer might remind us we are courting global suicide, the National Film Board's The Strangest Dream is a profound warning.

Now, 78 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is the slim possibility that the popularity of the film Oppenheimer may be awakening some small degree of public awareness of what we have set in motion, writes Jim Creskey. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

August 9, 2023

Only now, with new eyes that are old, I am able to see more clearly the innocence and beauty of children. I see, too, the awe and wonder of the natural world. I am frozen in my steps by the drama of a flock of robins, circling around a nestling who has slipped out of the nes...

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