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Outside the precursor, those animals in the open
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Outside the precursor,those animals in the open, which escapedtotal missile injury,...

Outside the precursor,
those animals in the open, which escaped
total missile injury, survived temporarily, until the massive radiation
they received took its fatal toll

Full Transcript

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Outside the precursor, those animals in the open,
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which escaped total missile injury,
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survived temporarily,
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until the massive radiation they received
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took its fatal toll.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:47
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...
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
So, I-- whatever the subject is, - Downwind 00:13
So, I-- whatever the subject is,
They were faced with the situation - Downwind 00:09
They were faced with the situation
So, yes, it's easy, - Downwind 00:12
So, yes, it's easy,
Would we have been able to have done it at all, - Downwind 00:05
Would we have been able to have done it at all,
But again, it was a different time, - Downwind 00:06
But again, it was a different time,
[film reel narrator] 640 square miles - Downwind 00:06
[film reel narrator] 640 square miles
65 miles northwest from Las Vegas, - Downwind 00:08
65 miles northwest from Las Vegas,
Since we have no atomic monopoly, - Downwind 00:11
Since we have no atomic monopoly,
But naturally, the folks in St. George, - Downwind 00:13
But naturally, the folks in St. George,
The reason that they chose this site - Downwind 00:07
The reason that they chose this site
Um, the scientists were getting concerned - Downwind 00:08
Um, the scientists were getting concerned
Um, the security alone - Downwind 00:15
Um, the security alone
So the President authorized a top-secret program, - Downwind 00:14
So the President authorized a top-secret program,
So they looked here, at the Nevada Proving Grounds, - Downwind 00:12
So they looked here, at the Nevada Proving Grounds,
They looked at a Camp Lejeune, - Downwind 00:06
They looked at a Camp Lejeune,
But they chose here, - Downwind 00:06
But they chose here,