Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
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- Duration: 71 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Rating: 6.6/10
- Release Date: 2015-08-08
Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.
