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THE LAST BOMB: Pathways to Nuclear Zero

FILMS
ON THE BEACH (1959) Stanley Kramer
Who started it? - Blame Einstein (3-minutes)
When scientists tell politicians how to make bombs they cease to be scientists and become merely engineers. Einstein himself lamented, "Had I known; better I had been a plumber."

Closing sequence - the last five minutes
Fred Astair, the intellectual racing driver in quiet ecstacy of suicide; Ava Gardner-Gregory Peck farewell as he leads his US submarine crew back home to the grave of the radiated northern hemisphere, and she awaits the cloak of invisible radiation already moving in. The end - THE END! Get a tissue if you need it, or get outraged (the sincerest form of love) - but then do something.

"On the Beach" Australian remake (2000) Trailer (2mins 32 secs)

(Book by Neville Shute)

FAIL SAFE (1964) - Sidney Lumet
Professor's justifications for nuclear war (8-minutes)
The character played by Walter Matthau was loosely based on Herman Kahn, author of "Thinking About the Unthinkable."
Kahn later said:
“Hopefully, a moral concept will develop that we must not use nuclear weapons or any other weapons of this type. The kind of concept, which I’m told the Tauregs have, where - no matter what - they do not poison wells; even though they know how to poison wells.”
Herman Kahn, 1977 (Traditionally Taureg leaders were women)

Closing sequence with Henry Fonda - wrenching (7-minutes)
Trailer - CBS TV re-make by George Clooney 2000

Book by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler

DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) - Stanley Kubrick, script: Terry Southern
Original Trailer
Strangelove's survival strategy

THE DAY AFTER - TV drama (1983)- Nicholas Meyer
Nuclear attack sequence
Reagan said this TV drama convinced him to join Gorbachev in a proposal to abolish nuclear weapons - abandoned because Reagan still insisted on Starwars.

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DOCUMENTARIES & VIDEOs
Doomsday Clock - - Illustrated history - Bulletin Atomic Scientists

START Treaty Music Video: DISARM-TV
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO - new release ....

COUNTDOWN TO ZERO - Trailer, 2 mins ....

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