This is a clip from one of the best documentaries we've ever seen. It outlines the activities and duties of a group of filmmakers tasked with recording the United States' testing of nuclear weapons. Their footage is mind-blowing, and the interviews are extraordinary, giving you first-hand accounts and insight into what was going on.
One of the most memorable and haunting lines came from a Japanese-American filmmaker who questioned the validity of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war was basically over, but we wanted to show our strength. Could we not have simply shown them the power we had? Did we really need to obliterate 200,000+ human beings when we could have said, "Watch this", and dropped "Fat Man" or "Little Boy" into the ocean near the coast of Japan? Perhaps it wasn't the "Axis" forces we were showing off to . . . *cough*Russia*cough*.
It's an amazing documentary on a fascinating, yet terrifying subject. Hit us up and we'll loan out the VHS we got at Salvation Army.
Watch it on Amazon.
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