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https://artsfuse.org/313555/documentary-film-review-the-atomic-bowl-the-catastrophic-game-is-still-on/ The at times chilling narrative of The Atomic Bowl raises probing and vexing questions about why we continue to face the threat of nuclear peril today. The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero – and Nuclear Peril Today.   Directed by Greg Mitchell.  Narrated by Peter Coyote.  Produced by Lyn Goldfarb.  Streaming at PBS.org and via PBS apps and public TV stations on July 12.  Broadcast on New Hampshire PBS  on August 4 and 7, 2025. A scene from the documentary The Atomic Bowl. July 8, 2025 -  Arts Fuse   By Robert Israel Nagasaki, destroyed by the second atomic bomb dropped by the United States on August 9, 1945 — three days after the atomic destruction of Hiroshima — is the subject of Greg Mitchell’s engrossing and insightful documentary film. Broken into succinct chapters that explore the city’s history before and after the bombing, The Atomic...

Original title: “In 1946, German POWs awaiting repatriation played football against each other in Stockton, California. Organized by American military officials, the game became known as the Barbed Wire Bowl.” Subreddit: /r/NFL Post date: June 9, 2018 This isn’t related to the NFL in particular, but I thought it was an interesting-enough story to share during this offseason. Football. It’s about as American as apple pie, bald eagles, and killing Nazis, right? Well, what about Nazis playing football? After World War II, American troops overseeing German prisoners of war proposed an interesting way for their prisoners to pass the time until they were sent home: a game of football. This was the Barbed Wire Bowl. With World War II coming to a close, American military officials pondered what to do with German prisoners of war staying in camps located in the United States. At the Stockton Ordnance Depot in California, Colonel Kenneth M. Barager had an interesting idea: before repatriating th...

https://gregmitchell.substack.com/p/the-atomic-bowl-football-on-a-killing Greg Mitchell Jan 01, 2024 Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including “ Hiroshima in America ,” “ Atomic Cover-up ” (on sale now for $1.99 as an ebook) and the recent award-winning “ The Beginning or the End : How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed three documentary films since 2021 for PBS (including “ Atomic Cover-up” ) . He has written about the atomic bombings for over forty years.  The famed biologist Jacob Bronowski revealed in 1964 that his classic study Science and Human Values was born at the moment he arrived in Nagasaki in November 1945, three months after the atomic bombing (which killed at least 75,000 civilians ) with a British military mission sent to study the effects of the new weapon. Arriving by jeep after dark, he found a landscape as desolate as the craters of the moon. That moment, he wrote, “is present to me as I write, as ...

La diva sempre ribelle Libera e controversa, l’attrice francese è morta nel suo letto: «È tutto finito» le ultime parole. La scia delle polemiche per il suo sostegno all’estrema destra "Brigitte Bardot ha incarnato una vita di libertà. Un’esistenza francese, uno splendore universale. Ci ha commosso. Piangiamo una leggenda del secolo"    - Emmanuel Macron 29 Dec 2025 - Corriere della Sera Dal nostro corrispondente Stefano Montefiori © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA PARIGI - Se n’è andata all’alba, a 91 anni, nel suo letto nella celebre villa La Madrague di Saint-tropez. Aveva accanto, come sempre da 33 anni, il marito Bernard d’ormale. A raccontare gli ultimi istanti è Bruno Jacquelin, della fondazione per la protezione degli animali ai quali Brigitte Bardot ha dedicato la sua seconda vita, quella lontana dal cinema. «Ancora alle 5 e 50 la sentiva respirare normalmente. Poi, alle 5 e 55, lei gli ha detto molto dolcemente le piccole parole d’amore che si ripetevano tra loro, piou piou ...

French legend who turned her back on film dies aged 91 Film legend gave it all up to pursue her pet causes 29 Dec 2025 - The Guardian Andrew Pulver, Angelique Chrisafis  Paris - Brigitte Bardot, the French actor and singer who became an international sex symbol before turning her back on the film industry and embracing animal rights activism and far-right politics, has died aged 91. Paying tribute yesterday, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, wrote on social media that his country was mourning “a legend of the century”. “Her films, her voice, her dazzling glory … her sorrows, her generous passion for animals, her face that became Marianne, Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom,” he said. Bardot died at her St-Tropez home, La Madrague, according to the animal protection charity she set up in 1986. It said: “The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a world-renowned actress and singer, who chos...

Plus qu’une actrice, Brigitte Bardot, décédée à 91 ans, a été une star planétaire incarnant la liberté sexuelle dans les années 1960 avant de s’inventer une autre vie où elle s’est illustrée par un combat, la défense des animaux, et des positions réaction Usée par la gloire, à la fois « formidable et invivable », l’actrice met brutalement fin à sa carrière en 1973 pour se consacrer aux animaux 29 Dec 2025 L'Union Connue mondialement, Brigitte Bardot, dont la mort a été annoncée hier par sa fondation, a façonné la légende de Saint-tropez, de Buzios au Brésil, a imposé un style vestimentaire fait de ballerines, d’imprimés vichy et de marinières et popularisé l’image d’une femme libre «qui n’a besoin de personne ». « Je suis très fière de ma première partie d’existence que j’ai réussie et qui me permet maintenant d’avoir une notoriété mondiale qui m’aide beaucoup pour la protection animale», racontait la star en 2024, à l’occasion de ses 90 ans. En rupture avec sa famille bourgeoise, ...