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Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
UNITED KINGDOM · 2012

Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth

Peter Greenaway
nuclear weapons atomic testing Cold War history environmental destruction geopolitical accountability
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Synopsis

Very surprisingly from 1945 to 1989 - there have been 2201 atomic bombs dropped on the planet Earth - an astonishing number of atomic bombs implying huge destruction and fall-out. The film shows evidence of every bomb explosion documented with the nation responsible, the date and location, the force and the height about earth or sea level in a relentless build up of accumulating destruction that i

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