In Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945

Discussion led by Marion Ronan (Brooklyn for Peace), Vera Anderson (Nevada Desert Experience), and John Breitbart (NYC War Resistance League)

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Before releasing the top-secret Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, Ellsberg served as a nuclear war planner with access to extensive classified information on U.S. nuclear strategy.

Filmed by Oscar-nominated director Judith Ehrlich a year before his death at age 92, Ellsberg speaks with clarity and urgency about the dangers we face: “A threat and a readiness and a preparation and a rehearsal of causing nuclear winter and destroying most large life on Earth, that is insane. You have to call it a kind of ‘ordinary insanity’ because it's so widely shared.”

With ongoing conflicts heightening global nuclear tensions, and the recent end of the New START treaty raising concerns about a renewed arms race, An Ordinary Insanity arrives at a critical moment. The film will help to awaken broader public concern and action for arms control and nuclear disarmament agreements.

AN ORDINARY INSANITY was selected for screening at six international film festivals, winning Best Short Documentary at the Sydney World Film Festival. The film premiered at the United Nations Association Film Festival, where it was praised as a “film that will shock you and inspire hope.”