Description
John Pilger looks at world-wide propaganda
surrounding the nuclear arms race.
John Pilger's penetrating documentary which looks at world-wide
propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race.
When the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945, they were code-named 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy', and
President Truman announced after the event: "The experiment has been an
overwhelming success."
"These", says Pilger, "were words used to describe the awful and
horrific carnage of nuclear war. By using reassuring, even soothing
language, this new kind of propaganda created acceptable images of war
and the illusion that we could live securely with nuclear weapons".
Official 'truths' are examined in connection with the bombing of
Hiroshima, the build up of arms by Russia and America, the siting of
nuclear bases by the US in Britain and Europe, Ministry of Defence
statements about the Cruise missile base at Greenham Common, and other
US bases, the amount of government money spent on weapons, 'Civil
defence' arrangements and a NATO 'limited' nuclear and chemical war
exercise in West Germany, which Pilger describes as 'a dry run for the
unthinkable'.
Many experts give their views, including Paul Warnke who thinks arms
reduction is feasible -- 'All we need is the political will to go ahead
with it'.
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