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DIED. TOMOYUKI TANAKA, 86, Godzilla godfather; in Tokyo. He was head of Toho Films in 1956 when, with director Ishiro Honda, he dreamed up the city-stomping monster. The toothy marauder, initially created to express horror at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, starred in 22 films,a Japanese Jurassic Park unto himself...
...Austrian Catholic bishop, imitating the Chinese monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto-Pop American images in his pictures when working in the U.S. Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber in it as well as the first Yank baseball player to turn up in a Surrealist picture...
Additional reflection reveals Smith's passion and artistry in grappling with larger social concerns. The brilliant "Fish" (1950), composed of welded steel in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, grippingly conveys the horrors of war in the nuclear age. Smith's composition, covered entirely with a cadmium red paint that is both mundane and menacing, forcefully aggregates scraps of metal and designed objects into a figure that evokes both the atom and our fear of its power. A core of barbs and chain links lies at the center of the work, surrounded by two askew rectangles of jagged metal forms...
...selection of Rotblat and Pugwash, while something of a surprise, comes at a particularly opportune time. It is 50 years since atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people. And the French and Chinese governments continue to defy international protests by conducting nuclear tests. "One of the reasons for the prize is a sort of protest against testing of nuclear weapons, and nuclear arms in general," acknowledged committee chairman Francis Sejersted...
...scattered around the globe in many places and poorly controlled, that could be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. Also more dangerous than bomb testing are the ethnic and religious wars, like the one raging in the Balkans. Such wars have claimed many more lives than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. We need not only a nuclear-free world but a world free of civilian atomic garbage. And above all, we need a world free of poor leadership. It has been said, if we seriously want to disarm, we must first disarm the spirit. ROGER FERDINAND LOUIS FAURE Sao Paulo, Brazil...