Documentary about U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who had been exposed to radioactive dust from dirty bombs when artillery shells coated with depleted uranium or DU are fired. Many suffer mysterious illnesses and have children with birth defects.
The Spanish film crew led by Carlos Rodriguez is following the life stories of three children - Lidia Pidvalna, Anastasia Pavlenko, and Andriy Kovalchuk - whose lives were drastically changed after an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station on April 26, 1986. Through the documentary, the children and their families "living perilously close to the exclusion zone around the destroyed station recount their fears, dreams, fantasies, and hopes for the future." Each child holds a "Chernobyl certificate" which bestows access to government grants and aid and is a gruesome reminder of their existential reality.
Le 18 septembre 1980, à Damascus, dans l’Arkansas, sur une base de l’Armée de l’air abritant le missile nucléaire Titan II, le plus potentiellement meurtrier de l’arsenal américain, deux hommes sont chargés de rechercher la cause d’une légère baisse de pression dans le silo de l’ogive. Après une journée de travail de près de douze heures, l’un de ces jeunes soldats, Dave Powell, commet une erreur de procédure pour pénétrer dans l’habitacle ultrasécurisé où dort le monstre.
The film spans from March 11, 2001 to September 19, 2011, starting with Noland's own experience in the Tōhoku Earthquake and tsunami, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster followed by volunteer activities in Ofunato
A narrator begins the piece by relating what an atom is and how atomic energy can be harnessed by man to produce "limitless" energy. Dr. Atom (a caricature with an atom for a head) then explains the similarities between the solar system and atomic structure. He then goes on to relate how the atom is made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. After this, the narrator explains how there are more than 90 elements with many possible isotopes for each.
A base de documents mélant actualités, archives gouvernementales et archives militaires, le portrait à la fois effrayant et hilarant d'un pays qui, des abris anti-atomiques à la propagande gouvernementale, instaure un véritable climat de paranoïa chez ses citoyens, les faisant devenir réfractaires à tout ce qui ne porte pas le label "made in USA"...