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Wake up to “Countdown to Zero”
Published: 14 August, 2010, 14:01
Edited: 22 August, 2010, 14:17
TAGS: Movies, Nuclear, Politics
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year – the blockbuster American documentary “Countdown to Zero “ – has been referred to as a wake-up call for anyone hoping to live in a nuclear weapon-free world.
One of Hollywood’s most versatile producers, whose credits include “Inglorious Basterds” and “An Inconvenient Truth” – Oscar-winner Lawrence Bender – spoke to RT about the challenges of making the film, which features interviews with former heads of states, prime ministers and top nuclear experts.
“It was quite a challenge getting all these former heads of states into the movie. It took us about a year and a half to get [former Soviet] President Gorbachev, not because he didn’t want to do it, but because he’s a busy man on another continent. Getting [former] President Musharraf was also quite difficult – we were supposed to film him in Pakistan. The last minute we couldn’t get in – it turned out he was ousted…”
“For me personally, having former heads of states served two purposes: any President is usually charismatic, it’s part of how you become president, but also these are people who had their finger on the button; who had to make the final decision.”
“We interviewed people all over the world – China, Russia, London, [the] United States. Most people have no idea how many bombs exist, which countries and how many countries have them. We made this movie to wake people up, to make people understand that this is an issue that needs to be thought about, to raise it to the top of the political agenda and to create a world-wide movement for the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons,” Bender said in an exclusive interview with RT’s Valeria Paikova.
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I did not watch film and I believe that idea was to give humanity a "wake up call" about danger and risk to have nuclear bombs. In my opinion we will never have a world free of this weapons...It is mission impossible and it will never be! Some kind of reduction yes but a complete clean up no....I also believe that people will in the future find something more deadly than nuclear bombs. Why is that? Becouse people are made imperfect-foulty...When we look what we doing to our only home- Planet Eart-I simple can not state otherways! There is not one single day in news that missing something about new weapons and huge amount of money spend on that..All of this doing is in the name of protectng ourself from OURSELFS! I am more then sure that humanity will in the end(somehow) demolish everything. Sorry to be pesimistic(realistic) but looking at history od human kind up to now-we heading there....Thank you
No surprise the new 'Countdown to Zero' disarmament documentary omits life-saving strategies from their agenda of banning nukes, like advocating public Civil Defense, to try and better survive nukes in the meantime. The disarmament movement for decades has hyped that with nukes; all will die or it will be so bad you'll wish you had. Most have bought into it, now thinking it futile, bordering on lunacy, to try to learn how to survive a nuclear blast and radioactive fallout. In a tragic irony, the disarmament movement has rendered millions of American families even more vulnerable to perishing from nukes in the future. The greatest tragedy of that horrific loss of life, when nukes come to America, will be that most families had needlessly perished, out of ignorance of how easily they might have avoided becoming additional casualties, all because they were duped that it was futile to ever try to learn how to beforehand. The disarmament movement's sincere supporters, just wanting a world safe from nukes, will discover those unintended consequences to be inconvenient truths of the worst kind.