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The Bomb is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 29 july 2015 with Jonathan Adams (acteur britannique)

The Bomb (2015)

The Bomb
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Released in USA 29 july 2015
Genres Documentary,    Historical
Rating75% 3.763073.763073.763073.763073.76307

The Bomb is a 2015 American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons, from theoretical scientific considerations at the very beginning, to their first use on August 6, 1945, to their global political implications in the present-day. The two-hour PBS film was written and directed by Rushmore DeNooyer, who noted the project took a year and a half to complete, since much of the film footage and images was only recently declassified by the United States Department of Defense. According to DeNooyer, “It wouldn’t take very many bombs to really change life on Earth, ... The idea that there are thousands of them sitting around is pretty scary. I don’t think people today realize that. They don’t think about it. I don’t think they are scared. But in a way, they should be.” Mark Dawidziak, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, summarized the film as follows: "'The Bomb' moves swiftly to cover Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cold War, the arms race, the Red Scare, the witch hunt, the Cuban Missile Crisis, test-ban treaties, the "Star Wars" initiative, the anti-nuke movement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of new nuclear threats." According to historian Richard Rhodes, “The invention [of 'The Bomb'] was a millennial change in human history: for the first time, we were now capable of our own destruction, as a species.

Synopsis

Comment vivre avec une invention capable de détruire la planète ? S'appuyant sur de spectaculaires archives récemment restaurées et rendues publiques, une captivante plongée dans l'histoire de la bombe atomique, de sa conception à la manière dont elle a changé le monde.

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Jonathan Adams (acteur britannique)

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