Bombs Will Make The Rainbow Break (1982)

[Music] [Music] [Music] The first time I heard about nuclear arms and nuclear war was when I was home watching TV and it came on the news and I was afraid that I might die. My family might die. Everybody might die. [Music] First time I heard about the nuclear war was in school. It was 10:30 and I was in English and a lot of other childrens was very nervous and like me I'm nervous. [Music] A nuclear war could happen later on today or tomorrow or next week or next year. I just dreamt that there was going to be a nuclear war and we had to hide somehow from it. And I was afraid of all the glass coming and sticking in me because I know it would be really painful to die that way. So I wanted to kill myself, but my mother wouldn't let me. Well, there was this dream I had. There was this big mushroom explosion and I was looking around like outside and it was like all my relatives and other people I knew just like dropping down one by one and then like parts of my own body started falling off and then I was all alone just no one no one else around or Thank [Music] you. I had pictures like I was going to die in the world was nothing. There was going to be a earthquake and I fall down and the bombs just be exploding and everything just be going up and you see piles of dirt coming up in the air. Everything coming up in the air and then everybody just laying down dead. And when I be walking through the house, I'll be thinking about it and tears wanted to rush down my eyes, but I try and hose it in so my mother don't know nothing's wrong. I think about it every day and I tried to get it out my head just to think of something else but it just couldn't go away. So I said, I I'm trying to get it on my mind. And I said, well, I'll just have to dream about it and see what I could try and do about [Music] it. The whole world's just going to burn when it happens. All you have to do is just push it. Oh, just push one button and we're all know just disintegrated. The bomb go off it it going to be like we going to look like mud. It going to be all we going to be look melted like you know like our face going to look like like chocolate you know it going to look melted like mud is on us on our body. It going to be like our body going to be like our face going to be burnt. cuz it going to be from the heat. There would just be a big flash and I wouldn't realize what would happen because I would be just evaporated. That's what I've heard. people would evaporate and like the the ground over there would melt and all around here. I don't think anything I mean there would it would just be like a big a big hole. If someone would for some reason survive, they would like be all burnt and and their eyeballs would be out and and they would just die very shortly. These bombs are going to be different colors. These are going to be red. If you have one bomb that you want red and you have one bomb you want blue, you're going to have to have two stencils. And then the other one's just going to say peace in the world. And it's going to have a lot of flowers. Say the flowers and this. Okay. Are you going to put letters on them? You want to say and No, I think we just Yeah. Just too complicated. Yeah. It's going to be If you wanted a yellow bomb for an example and an orange bomb, then you can keep the same stencil on. [ __ ] Bomb is Why did they make nuclear bombs anyway? In order to end World War II, they dropped an atomic bomb on um a city in Japan called Hiroshima. And those those were small bombs compared to what we have today. And that bomb totally destroyed the entire city and killed practically everyone within its radius. The way they killed everyone was just intense heat. Just it just burns everything. It's like a match. It's like it's a giant flame, you know. And that's the that's what a bomb is. That's a bomb. Is it so hot that it would burn? Yes. It would melt concrete. Would it burn? It would it would see this metal pipe. It would it would turn it to liquid. That's how hot it is. It's It's hotter than the sun. Yeah. After the bomb goes off, there's wind. Hale force winds worse than a hurricane, you know, just and it'll fly you around like missiles and and it'll fly objects around like missiles and and it'll hit you or or you'll hit something and that's and that's another thing that could happen. It It covers such a vast area, one nuclear bomb. Why would the people who wanted to hurt the other country, but they would just die, too? Exactly. That's so so important that we got to do something about it. [Music] I dream that I'm with my friends and everything and then we hear that a nuclear bomb has dropped and then I wake up and no one's around there and no one's there and then like and like you'd be so scared and you're like if you're scared in your subconscious then there's something has to be going on in your conscious and it has something has to be going on in reality and there is and we've got to stop it. I I mean if there was an atomic war I would like to I mean a nuclear war I would like to die because I don't think I would like to stay around afterwards if you die all of a sudden then it's not as bad as you know dying 10 years later in suffering when I think about you know being alive with other like my father or my mother dying that's what I really think about I think of a bomb falling and my parents dying and me feeling the real pain I'm more scared of being alone forever every single kid in the world once they hear about it with a little bit of education, you're very scared. And if every single one of those kids of those millions of scared kids uh not only are scared, but speak out against it, you're going to have something very big and very hard to ignore. They don't care about our opinions. They just want to get money and get rich. But what's going to happen to us? And then they're always encouraging kids not to have violence, not to fight. Well, this is encouraging us on their mind. They're saying, "Don't fight this. Talk it out." Well, look at them. What kind of an influence is that on kids? The US thinks that we're going to scare off the Soviets, but then the Soviets going to think, oh, well, they think they're going to scare us. Well, we're going to scare them more and then we're going to keep on making bombs and bombs and then finally it's going to trigger it and then we're going to just start a war. It be killing the poor people. Like the poor people don't have nothing. And wow. Like they were just we was talking like just building bombs just to show how powerful you are or if you can kill you can kill more people than you. You have more you have more power and more money than anybody else. Just trying to show show everything off that you have. Well, I could do it, not y'all. So, I'mma do it the way I want to. Not I don't care about nobody's feelings. I just care about myself. It seems that way to me. The adults who aren't who aren't taking the responsibility are threatening our lives and they are not protecting us. We could write letters and make tapes and send it to him and play it to him in his face and protest and try to make this stop happening. I'm writing a concern. [Music] I'm not blaming you for everything, but maybe you could help everybody live in peace and harmony just by throwing down your weapons. Bury the hatchet, shake hands, and just don't care about how another government governs their people. If you care so much about the people, help them. Don't destroy them. I want to be a doctor, not a killer. We have enough bombs to blow up the world. But why do we want the world to be gone? The truth is, I'm scared. Dear Mr. President, in connection with the nuclear arms race with Russia, I am writing to you on behalf of all the handicapped or illiterate people and children who do not have a chance to express their ideas. You may think I feel sorry for them, but the truth of the matter is I feel sorry for this country. If we'd rather spend our money building weapons, what it really comes down to is we're preparing ourselves to be destroyed. I am 5 and a half. I am learning to read books. I don't want no nuclear power plants to drop bombs. They scare me. I don't want to die by them. I love to play soccer. Dear Mr. President, I wish there could be a place in this world for people to be safe in their home. My biggest goal in life is to graduate from West Point, but after listening and reading about what would happen in the event of a nuclear explosion. If we use nuclear weapons, it will completely ruin our world. All the beautiful animals, plants, and people would die. And if we didn't die, we would wish we were dead. Please stop before it is too late. Yours truly Donald, please consider what I have said. Sincerely, Jim. Furious. Please stop making nuclear weapons. Ellen K. Lea Benaro, age 11, California. Age 13, Donaldville, Louisiana. Mr. President, I'm scared. Since 8:00 this morning, there's been lots of kids around here reading letters from other kids around the United States. There weren't even any faces at the windows, and there are no less bombs after standing out here all day. And we knew that there wouldn't be, but it's still a shock. We We need a person who will listen to the children because at this point, I think that we're the ones that are right. You know, often kids are wrong, and I'm very wrong sometimes, but here, I know I'm right. we want to live like wow what will the world be like if it just be peace no war no fighting just plain peace everybody will not be selfish or nothing just everybody be peaceful like and every day you wake up saying oh hi how you doing people should have hope because if they have hope then they will do the right things to help save the world. The hope lies within people and that if they make a stand that it'll count. You have to try and try and get it across to them that there's not just you rich people. There's a lot of people that you have to care about. If you going to run a nation, run it right. [Music] Lay down at lay down down by the river side. Way down down by the river side. Way down down by the river side. Way down that sword and shield. Way down. Down by the river side. Down by the river side. Ain't God one [Music] [Applause] [Music] more. Ain't going to stud no more. Ain't going to stud no more. Heat. Heat. [Music] Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace. We want to live. We want to live for we want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. We want to live. [Music]