"Countdown To Zero" (2010) FULL-DOCUMENTARY 10/10

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  • GODOFSNUS
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    • May 2010
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    "Countdown To Zero" (2010) FULL-DOCUMENTARY 10/10

    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/countdown-to-zero/

    -Countdown to Zero is a documentary film released in 2010 which argues that the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons has increased since the end of the Cold War due to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, theft of nuclear materials and weapons, and other factors.
    The film features interviews with leading statesmen and experts, including Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert McNamara, Pervez Musharraf, and Valerie Plame Wilson.
    The idea for the film first occurred to the producers when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore after the success of his documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.
    Diane Weyermann of Participant Media asked Walker if she was interested in directing a film about nuclear weapons, and Walker said yes. More than 84 people were interviewed for the film. Global Zero, an international organization promoting the elimination of nuclear weapons, provided production assistance for the film.
    A review in Daily Variety called the film highly creative documentary-making and concluded that the film makes a convincing argument that the human race is on borrowed time: Given the number of nuclear weapons in existence, the ease with which they can be made, the eagerness of terrorists to possess them and a worldwide cluelessness about nuclear security, it’s only a matter of time before something terribly ugly happens.

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  • CreteCoater
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    • Feb 2011
    • 304

    #2
    I only read to "Al Gore" then i vomited in my mouth a little.

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    • snusjus
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      • Jun 2008
      • 2674

      #3
      I watched this a while ago. It was informative, albeit biased.

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      • sgreger1
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        • Mar 2009
        • 9451

        #4
        The problem with nuclear weaapons is that we cannot all undiscover something... now that we have figured out how to easily make nuclear weapons, it is with us forever. It's like fire, once one guy learns it it becomes part of the human race, it can't be made to go away if we don't like it.

        I havn't seen the documentary but I agree that there is increased risk of a nuclear attack, not by an actual nuclear bomb but more likely by a dirty bomb where they just take radioactive material and put an artillery shell in with it so that when it blows it sprays uranium all over the city. Not as bad as a nuke but still bad. And we know the materials for it are readily available on the black market so someone must be saving it for a rainy day. Nuclear material has been on the black amrket since the end of the cold war, yet no one has used it in a bomb yet, but it's out there waiting and will be used by some idiot some day.

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        • snusjus
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          • Jun 2008
          • 2674

          #5
          Here's an interesting debate:

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGUYnFAvdY

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