This month marks 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima, which showed how horribly destructive the atomic bomb could be. Mark Cousins's daring documentary looks at both death and life in the atomic age. With only old footage and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, the film gives us an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times, including protest marches, Cold War saber-rattling, Chernobyl, and Fukishima, as well as the sublime beauty of the atomic world and how x-rays and MRI scans have made people's lives better. The age of nuclear weapons has been both a nightmare and a dream.
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This month marks 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima, which showed how horribly destructive the atomic bomb could be. Mark Cousins's daring documentary looks at both death and life in the atomic age. With only old footage and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, the film gives us an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times, including protest marches, Cold War saber-rattling, Chernobyl, and Fukishima, as well as the sublime beauty of the atomic world and how x-rays and MRI scans have made people's lives better. The age of nuclear weapons has been both a nightmare and a dream.
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