El piloto de Hiroshima

Synopsis of El piloto de Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, Claude R. Eatherly fulfills the order to destroy the bridge located between the headquarters and the city of Hiroshima. A miscalculation causes the bomb to fall on the city. Back at the military base, the “Hiroshima pilot” promises to dedicate his life to the fight against nuclear weapons. The monstrosity of what happened will mark the rest of his days: confined to psychiatric hospitals, Eatherly longs to obtain his freedom to dedicate himself to the pacifist cause. In 1959, the Viennese philosopher Günther Anders began his correspondence with him, turning his personal story into the “Eatherly case.” According to Anders, Eatherly personifies conscience in a world that persuades the individual that he is not responsible for the consequences of his action. The technological world involves us in events whose effects we are unable to represent. This means that we can be innocently guilty as never before. Eatherly is the “predecessor” of all of us. But what surpasses consciousness, what is beyond its limits, imposes a work of awareness: in “No more Hiroshima” the executioner, the victims and the intellectual coincide.