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If You Love This Planet is a 1982 short documentary film recording a lecture given to SUNY Plattsburgh students by physician and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
Released during the Reagan administration at the height of Cold War nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, the film was officially designated as "foreign political propaganda" by the U.S. Department of Justice.[1] The subsequent uproar over that action gave the film a publicity boost; it went on to win the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. [2]
If You Love This Planet was directed by Terre Nash and produced by Edward Le Lorrain for Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. Studio D head Kathleen Shannon was executive producer.
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Helen Caldicott later authored a book of the same name, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992). In addition, Caldicott hosts a weekly radio program called If You Love This Planet. Originating at Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM in New York City, the program focuses on the threats to human survival posed by nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and global warming.
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