The nuclear history is a lie

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2006)

The premise of the film, nuclear deformity (versus the original suggested inbreeding), is is utter nonsense. Science fiction can (and should) be as far fetched as the human mind, and imagination, can carry a writer. Rewriting history and past sciences is just asinine. Firstly, there were only three nuclear weapons detonated in New Mexico, all at different sites, including the Trinity Test Site. The United States tested well over one thousand nuclear weapons (mostly because the physics was so new, scientists were unable to predict the actual yield of weapons, and to test new methods and designs), most of which were on (or under) American soil. Officially, two more bombs were detonated in Colorado, two more in Massacheusetes, three in Alaska, seven more at three other sites in New Mexico, the famous Pacific tests accounted for over a hundred bombs, and three bombs were detonated in the atmosphere in the South Atlantic Ocean. The majority of Testing was done at the Nevada Test Site (nnounced 925 circa 1992), bordered by the Nellis Air Force Range and the Tonopah Test Range, altogether encompassing one of the largest unpopulated land areas with around five and a half thousand square miles (it is only 65 miles from Las Vegas). The likelihood of exposed families living near the test site is lower than the entire population of Las Vegas being irradiated (better movie), because the bombing ranges make this impossible, especially in New Mexico. Secondly the affects of radiation are well known, and public finally, The US and Japanese governments released reports as well as the Sandia Laboratory and the National Cancer Institute, and more recently, eyewitness accounts of the bombs dropped on civilian populations (Japan) by an American reporter who was silenced until his death, have all come into public light in the last decade and a half. This movie is like Jaws had Roy Schneider spent half an hour underwater (on the moon, say) fighting the shark with his fists. It doesn't have to be believable, it really shouldn't, it does have to be convincing, though.