With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had first-hand experience, filmmaker Vicki Lesley tells the turbulent story of the West’s love-hate relationship with a nuclear power over the past seventy years. Capturing both the tantalising promise and the repeated disappointments of this singular technology, the film reveals how the post-war, romantic fantasy of an Atom-powered future developed into the stormy, on-off relationship still playing out today. A tale of scientific passion and political intrigue all wrapped up in the packaging of a sentimental screen melodrama.

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An educational film about the nervous system produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an education...

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film produ...

Farmers and parents of young children, who live in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, discuss their fears of...

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An illuminating look inside the lives of the Grucci family, whose Long Island-based fireworks busine...

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