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The Manhattan Project. The ‘Trinity Test’ at Alamagordo, New Mexico. The guinea pig test of the people of Bikini Atoll of the hydrogen bomb. Fat Man and Little Boy. Colonel Paul Tibbets. The Enola Gay. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On August 6, 1945, with the splitting of the atom, with the explosion of the first atomic bomb, the United States brought the rest of the world into the atomic age. The Atomic Cafe is the story of the race for atomic power and the creation of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain.
The Atomic Cafe is a documentary made up mostly of propaganda news reels about the supposed benefits of the atom bomb. The blatant ignorance of those of the past is laughable now, but then, many believed in the agenda of a government that lied about the fallout effects of radiation poisoning, destruction of the environment, and the fact that spent nuclear waste (uranium, plutonium, etc.) have half-lives that can live on in the soil for hundreds of years.
The ludicrousness of the U.S. government exposing American soldiers to ground-zero blasts of atomic bombs set off to rate the effectiveness of future atomic bombs, and after the bomb blast, allowing these same soldiers to walk, unprotected, into the site of the blast, thus exposing them to radiation contamination that would affect them later with deathly consequences.
We can all now laugh at the scene where U.S. students are told to “Duck, and cover!” under their school desks, as if a piece of wooden furniture would protect them from a blast that is the equivalent of a 20 tons of TNT.
The air raid drills that occurred every Friday at mid-morning at schools all across America, as a form of civilian preparedness for the coming nuclear holocaust between Capitalist America and Communist Russia.
The bomb shelters that in the end would not truly protect those who sought escape from nuclear Armageddon. The shelters that would entrap those hiding in them, as tombs, if the bomb was dropped. Even if the occupiers of the shelters did manage to make their way to the surface, they would face a world where life as they knew it was obliterated, where water sources would be contaminated, food supplies would be inedible, especially canned goods that had been damaged and dented thereby affected by radiation contamination.
The missile silos built on U.S.citizen’s property under the guise of the U.S. government that this was a patriotic duty of a citizen to allow their property to be a housing compound for America’s then Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The Atomic Cafe is a documentary that reveals the hubris, the foolishness, the capriciousness towards this most powerful of energy sources as a wartime weapon the likes of which the world had never seen.
Something so small as an atom that could wreak such devastating effects.
For your enjoyment, here is Part 1 of The Atomic Cafe:
To view the entire documentary, click on this link:http://www.booserver.com/projects.php…
(Trivia: Two of the three directors of this documentary, Kevin and Pierce Rafferty, are cousins of George W. Bush. Kevin Rafferty later became a mentor to Micheal Moore, who went on to produce and direct the documentary, Roger & Me.) |