CIS to Host screening of "Radio Bikini" Tonight at 5:30 in VU 552

Radio Bikini is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning (and Oscar nominated) documentary film about the greatest operation to test nuclear weapons ever conducted by the United States. Using rare and mostly never-before-seen archival footage, the film unfolds through the eyes of the elderly chief of the Bikinians, Kilon Bauno, and a former American serviceman, John Smitherman, who was there. Radio Bikini combines ‘live’ radio broadcasts from Bikini in 1946 with footage of the entire operation, recreating a feeling of the event as it happened in a way that is both haunting and surreal.

The film shows tonight at 5:30 p.m. in VU 552; it is free and open to the public; sponsored by the Center for International Studies' Reel World Film Series.