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Atomic Mom is a 2010 documentary film written and directed by M.T Silvia about the complex experiences of two women struggling with the emotional repercussions of their connections to the nuclear bombings on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II in August 1945.

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Director

M.T. Silvia graduated from Rogers High School in 1974, and spent the majority of the 1980s as an activist in the anti-nuclear movement. Silvia is currently employed as an audiovisual engineer and media systems manager at Pixar in Emeryville, California. In 2002, she filmed her first documentary, “Picardy Drive,” about a neighborhood in Oakland, California.

Synopsis

Atomic Mom is a documentary film written and directed by M.T Silvia, which focuses on the connection between two mothers that are each on a different end of the Hiroshima atomic warfare spectrum: Pauline Silvia, a United States Navy biologist, and one of the only women scientists present during the 1953 radiation detonations of Operation Upshot–Knothole at the then-Nevada Test Site, and Emiko Okada, a Japanese woman who was exposed to radiation from the Hiroshima nuclear bombings as a child. Atomic Mom also offers a comparison of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Through the use of numerous interviews with Japanese doctors, historians and Hiroshima survivors, M.T Silvia discusses matters of censorship, value of scientific innovation, human rights, personal responsibility and the prospect of world peace in the aftermath of Hiroshima.

Interviews

Pauline Silvia

Emiko Okada

Mary Palevsky

Andy Kirk

Ray Harbert

Shuntaro Hida

Dr. Helen Caldicott

Production

Despite accruing multiple professional filmography credits for her studio management work on various Pixar films, Atomic Mom was the first internationally recognized film that M.T Silvia produced and directed as an independent film maker.

Funding for the film was procured from dozens of individual donors as well as Nevada Humanities, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, The Pacific Pioneer Fund, and Google Matching Funds.

Critical reception/reviews

Atomic Mom has a positive Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score of 86% with an average rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars from twelve user ratings. Robert Jacobs of The Asia-Pacific Journal called Atomic Mom “ambitious” and “complex”, and praised Silvia for making a “film that is both historically compelling and deeply personal, a rare achievement.”