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But we want you to go inside when this radiation cloudcomes over you, and we're... ...

But we want you to go inside when this radiation cloud
comes over you, and we're... [laughs] ...we're gonna tell children
to-- to hide underneath their desks
as an exercise in defending yourself
from nuclear war," as if that would have
done anything

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But we want you to go inside
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when this radiation cloud comes over you,
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and we're... [laughs]
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...we're gonna tell children to-- to hide
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underneath their desks as an exercise
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in defending yourself from nuclear war,"
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as if that would have done anything.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
01:05:30
Uploaded
Apr 15, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Backlot Docs,Cinco Dedos Peliculas

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Movie Summary

Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living do...
It is not constituted an appreciable danger - Downwind 00:08
It is not constituted an appreciable danger
It was absurd at the time. It was dishonest at the time. - Downwind 00:05
It was absurd at the time. It was dishonest at the time.
In retrospect, we can certainly identify it - Downwind 00:10
In retrospect, we can certainly identify it
[film reel narrator] We must be ready - Downwind 00:05
[film reel narrator] We must be ready
First, you have to know what happens - Downwind 00:06
First, you have to know what happens
They would come to my elementary school, with-- with films. - Downwind 00:06
They would come to my elementary school, with-- with films.
To show me how to protect myself - Downwind 00:06
To show me how to protect myself
[audience laughter] - Downwind 00:10
[audience laughter]
[audience laughter] - Downwind 00:11
[audience laughter]
[laughter, applause] - Downwind 00:09
[laughter, applause]
[audience laughter] - Downwind 00:07
[audience laughter]
[cheers, applause] - Downwind 00:05
[cheers, applause]
Yeah, I've always found it fascinating, - Downwind 00:08
Yeah, I've always found it fascinating,
I mean, there's a really solid idea, - Downwind 00:07
I mean, there's a really solid idea,
And then you let that-- you-- you know, - Downwind 00:06
And then you let that-- you-- you know,
They're lookin' right at it, it is staring 'em in the face, - Downwind 00:06
They're lookin' right at it, it is staring 'e...
They're lookin' right at the nucle-- - Downwind 00:05
They're lookin' right at the nucle--
We're still kinda, you know, and then-- - Downwind 00:10
We're still kinda, you know, and then--
That's the person you want to get rid of, - Downwind 00:08
That's the person you want to get rid of,
But then, people say, "Well, you know, - Downwind 00:17
But then, people say, "Well, you know,