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Downwind Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living… downwind.

Director Mark Shapiro, Douglas Brian Miller
Writers Mark Shapiro, Warren Etheredge
Actors Martin Sheen, Michael Douglas, Lewis Black, Patrick Wayne
Genre Documentary
Run Time 1 hour 36 minutes
Transcript
00:00 I really cannot forgive our leaders, our politicians for not addressing this.
00:05 This has been a terrible pox on humanity.
00:09 No one ever warned us about the testing and what it would cause.
00:15 My family personally have died of cancer and other illnesses known to be plausible from
00:21 exposure to radiation.
00:22 The headlines are coming in, "Did America Kill John Wayne?"
00:26 You watch the guy standing there with those glasses and you're going, "Really?
00:30 So this is really going to work?"
00:31 You know, at the age of seven, eight, nine, you're not stupid.
00:39 Even all these ships later hurt Stephen Tuchman.
00:43 From 1951 to 1992, the United States detonated 928 nuclear weapons in Nevada.
00:55 That's why we need a safe place for my people.
00:59 We own that flag too.
01:01 We own that flag too.
01:02 I am a patriot and an activist.
01:05 I don't sit on my butt.
01:07 So in a very real sense, your work can and will bring us closer to a world free of nuclear
01:15 weapons.
01:15 [Explosion]
01:21 [Explosion]
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