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Half life : a parable for the nuclear age

The effects of the US nuclear tests on the lives of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands is revealed. The film combines Defence Department footage of the Bravo Test of 1954 with contemporary film and interviews with the people of Rongelap who were not evacuated during the tests and consequently became unwitting participants in an experiment carried out and covered up by the Americans.

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  • "Parable for the nuclear age"
  • "Halbwertzeit"

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  • "Examines the effects both immediate and long term of radioactive materials on people of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls in the Marshall Islands. These people and several U.S. weathermen were neither informed of the U.S. hydrogen bomb test, Operation Castle, in 1954 nor were they evacuated from the islands. Using decassified government archival film and contemporary interviews the film presents a picture of the results of a radiation experiment on a human population."
  • "In 1947 the United Nations placed the Marshall Islands, a group of inhabited islands and atolls 2000 miles southwest of Hawaii, under the protection of the United States. Under this trusteeship the U.S. was charged with safeguarding the welfare and interests of the native inhabitants. Instead the U.S. government through its Atomic Energy Commission began using the islands, specifically Bikini Atoll, as a testing ground for its new atomic weapons. In the next ten years the A.E.C. exploded at least 66 nuclear bombs on Bikini, contaminating it for centuries to come. For each test inhabitants on islands down-wind from Bikini were evacuated. Then on March, 1, 1954 the A.E.C. exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Bikini. Inexplicably for this test, the inhabatants of the islands of Rangelap and Utirik along with a small group of naval personal on these islands were not evacuated and because of a sudden windshift were directly exposed to substantial amounts of long lasting radioactive fall-out from the bomb. As a result land, sea, animals and people were all contaminated and the people began to fall ill and die with various forms of radiation sickness. Since 1954 doctors and scientists under contract to the A.E.C. have studied and cared for the exposed people who, justifably, consider themselves to have been used as "nuclear guineapigs." Meanwhile the U.S. governement is trying to terminate its "trustee arrangement" while officials and membe"
  • "The effects of the US nuclear tests on the lives of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands is revealed. The film combines Defence Department footage of the Bravo Test of 1954 with contemporary film and interviews with the people of Rongelap who were not evacuated during the tests and consequently became unwitting participants in an experiment carried out and covered up by the Americans."@en
  • "The effects of the US nuclear tests on the lives of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands is revealed. The film combines Defence Department footage of the Bravo Test of 1954 with contemporary film and interviews with the people of Rongelap who were not evacuated during the tests and consequently became unwitting participants in an experiment carried out and covered up by the Americans."
  • "Using archival footage, explanatory headlines, and up-to-date interviews, this documentary examines the effects on the people of Rongelap, the Marshall Islands atoll where the U.S. testing of the atomic bomb created devasting fallout."@en
  • "This film reveals the effects of United States nuclear testing on the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands. The film concentrates on the March 1, 1954 Bravo hydrogen bomb test, during which the inhabitants of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls were not evacuated, an action that the film argues may have been part of a deliberate radiation exposure experiment on a human population."
  • "Examines the facts leading up to the Bravo test, the role of the U.S. government in Marshall Islands nuclear testing and the long-term consequence of Bravo (the code name for America's first deliverable hydrogen bomb). This documentary reveals the effects of the testing on the island inhabitants and on a few U.S. weathermen stationed nearby. With declassified government archival film and contemporary interviews, it presents a restrained but chilling picture of a cynical radiation experiment on human populations."@en
  • "Examines the effects both immediate and long term of radioactive materials on people of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls in the Marshall Islands. These people and several U.S. weathermen were neither informed of the U.S. hydrogen bomb test, Operation Castle, in 1954 nor were they evacuated from the islands. Using decassified government archival film and contemporary interviews the film presents a picture of the results of a radiation experiment on a human population."@en
  • "Summary: Using archival footage, explanatory headlines, and up-to-date interviews, this documentary examines the effects on the people of Rongelap, the Marshall Islands atoll where the U.S. testing of the atomic bomb created devasting fallout."
  • "Using archival footage, explanatory headlines, and up-to-date interviews, this documentary examines the effects on the people of Rongelap, the Marshall Islands atoll where the U.S. testing of the atomic bomb created devastating fallout."@en
  • "Documentary account which reveals the effects of U.S. nuclear testing on the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands. Using declassified government archival films and contemporary interviews, this program presents a restrained but chilling picture of a cynical radiation experiment on human populations."@en
  • "Between 1946-58 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission exploded at least 66 nuclear devices in the Marshall Islands contaminating them for centuries to come. This film is about the devastating effects of radiation on the islanders. It gains much of its strength from the fact that the filmmaker did not set out with preconceptions and a commitment to make a post-nuclear expose but to depict 'in a compassionate way these people living in a post-nuclear age'. In the course of his investigations he found that the official view of the tests was unsustainable."@en

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  • "History"
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  • "Half-life a parable for the nuclear age"
  • "Half life -- a parable for the nuclear age --"
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  • "Half life ... a parable for the nuclear age ... = Halbwertzeit : ... eine Parabel für das Atomzeitalter"
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