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“Countdown to Zero” an inconvenient film for nuclear industry

highly enriched uranium could be easily smuggled into the United States

An “Inconvenient Truth” Film for Nuclear Analysts? – By David Hoffman | Foreign Policy, 8 July 2010, “………………harrowing tales of the nuclear age thrust back into the limelight this summer in a new documentary film, Countdown to Zero, which opens in theaters July 23. The 91-minute film, written and directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Lawrence Bender, is intended to startle us out of complacency about nuclear dangers. It is a cauldron of stark, unsettling scenes, ending with an appeal for the Global Zero movement to eliminate all nuclear weapons…….

….desperate men peddle uranium across borders; nuclear-weapons technology is spread by master proliferator A.Q. Khan of Pakistan…..

…..The film argues that highly enriched uranium could be easily smuggled into the United States through seaports, shielded in a lead pipe and buried in a shipping container. The design of a crude bomb is no longer secret. The film suggests that building a bomb is not rocket science………

An “Inconvenient Truth” Film for Nuclear Analysts? – By David Hoffman | Foreign Policy

July 9, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, uranium