The Atomic Cafe Movie Download

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This documentary is da bomb (pun intended).
We’ve all seen the footage of Hiroshima getting nuked. We’ve all seen footage of other nuclear blasts. We’ve probably even seen some of the propaganda films from the ’50s about what to do in the event of a nuclear blast. “The Atomic Cafe” ties them all together masterfully. It starts with Hiroshima, and goes on to show Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Bikini Atoll, a meeting between Nixon and a Soviet leader, and other such stuff.

I guess that I might as well put in my two cents. Around the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, I asked my Russian teacher if she remembered it. She remembered being shown a movie in school about how to help a person affected by nuclear fallout; in short, the USSR was as guilty as the USA (although we certainly put them in a hyper-defensive position). As for the Rosenbergs, I know their son Robert, and he always explains what the government did to his parents. On the 50th anniversary of his parents’ execution, he noted that the “War on Terrorism” has replaced the Cold War.

The overall point is that watching this documentary, it’s almost impossible to believe that people took this stuff seriously, but they did. And we still live with the Cold War’s effects today.Read More