Virtual Lights for Peace

Duration:

11 minutes

The Virtual Lights for Peace

 

Reflection

• More Reflection
• Days of Peace & Remembrance
• Messages of Peace
• Seeds for Reflection
• Oak Ridge Bell Ringing
• Los Alamos Lights for Peace
• Hanford Lights for Peace
• Partners in Commemoration

On August 9, 1945, the US Army Air Forces dropped the plutonium-fueled Fat Man atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan in the second, and so far, the last nuclear bombing in history. The Manhattan Project facility at Hanford produced the plutonium used in the Trinity test and the Fat Man bomb. We are offering this Lights for Peace virtual experience to commemorate the atomic bombings of Japan during the waning days of World War II and recognize the historical and emotional traumas of these events.  

The music in the video is Over the City by Karen P. Thomas with Lyrics by Molly McGee and sung by the Mid-Columbia Mastersingers during their annual concert at the B Reactor. Commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Over the City is dedicated to the bombing victims of Hiroshima and is sung in both English and Japanese. The flickering lights of the luminarias were filmed along the banks of the Columbia River in Richland, Washington. 

Video Description: A video plays of lighted luminaria bags in the dark with an orchestra and choir providing musical accompaniment.