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Duration
10 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:33:57
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...
[Brian Moench] There is no question that, uh, - Downwind 00:06
[Brian Moench] There is no question that, uh,
Uh, scheduled and manipulated - Downwind 00:15
Uh, scheduled and manipulated
Uh, would exchange their exposure - Downwind 00:07
Uh, would exchange their exposure
Now, I suppose you-- if-- if you are convinced - Downwind 00:14
Now, I suppose you-- if-- if you are convinced
But you can't convince anybody in the state of Utah - Downwind 00:11
But you can't convince anybody in the state of Utah
I don't know if that was part - Downwind 00:08
I don't know if that was part
If-- if you're gonna say, "Well, - Downwind 00:10
If-- if you're gonna say, "Well,
But obviously, the 10,000 people that you're going to expose... - Downwind 00:06
But obviously, the 10,000 people that you're going to e...
Are never going to view that as anything other than - Downwind 00:06
Are never going to view that as anything other than
[film reel narrator] We in the military biomedical group - Downwind 00:07
[film reel narrator] We in the military biomedical group
These are the standard animals we work with daily - Downwind 00:07
These are the standard animals we work with daily
Knowing and working with them, we find that in many ways, - Downwind 00:07
Knowing and working with them, we find that in many ways,
-[announcer] One, zero! -[explosion rumbles] - Downwind 00:06
-[announcer] One, zero! -[explosion rumbles]
[film reel narrator] Early in the Plumbbob Operation, - Downwind 00:17
[film reel narrator] Early in the Plumbbob Operation,
The mortality rates, nearly 100%, - Downwind 00:07
The mortality rates, nearly 100%,
Outside the precursor, those animals in the open, - Downwind 00:12
Outside the precursor, those animals in the open,
Flying glass fragments - Downwind 00:06
Flying glass fragments
[narrator] Downwinders were, and remain, expendable. - Downwind 00:06
[narrator] Downwinders were, and remain, expendable.
Unfortunately for the humans - Downwind 00:12
Unfortunately for the humans
[Darwin Morgan] The world was in a different - Downwind 00:08
[Darwin Morgan] The world was in a different