Mini-Review : When I found the website of Long Haul Productions and
their American Worker series, I was somewhat intrigued
and uneasy at the same time about the documentary entitled
“Nuclear Weapons Disassemblers”. To some like
myself, from a background of actively protesting against
a proposed local radioactive dump, the word “Nuclear”
just feels dirty. Yet for some, these weapons provide
a means to earn a living and bring up a family.
So
downloading Dan Collision’s
documentary I as asking myself, who where these people,
why did they choose this job as a career with its inherent
dangers to life and limb? What kind of person can build
devices whose sole purpose is to kill thousands and inflict
pain on millions. Personally I never did find the answer,
but did come to accept that perhaps the best people to
be dismantling these highly volatile devices, which they
understatedly call “the physics package”,
are those who built them in the first place.
Well
worth listening too. After you've herd this documentary
I recommend you visit Dan’s website at Long Haul
Productions and listen to some of the other programmes
in the series.
Chris
Long Haul Productions
American Worker Series
