Description: Acclaimed filmmaker Jon Else combines history, science, politics, popular culture, and personal testimony into a seamless narrative of the American nuclear enterprise, from Los Alamos to the 1990s, tracing the production of ever more powerful nuclear weapons, the consequences of fallout from them, and the efforts to ban testing entirely.
Brief description: Jon Else is a documentary filmmaker and Professor Emeritus at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A MacArthur Fellow, two-time Oscar nominee, and five-time Emmy winner, he produced and directed the first ever film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Day After Trinity, and was series producer and cinematographer for Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize.
Review Quotes: Here, for the first time in such rich, on-the-ground detail, is the rest of the story of how we walked hand in hand with Armageddon through the first eighty years of the Nuclear Age. We still do.--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb