Los Alamos und die Erben der Bombe (2001) watch online HD
- Original title:Los Alamos und die Erben der Bombe
- Category:Movie / Documentary
- Released:2001
- Director:Claus Biegert
- Writer:Claus Biegert
- Duration:45min
- Video type:Movie
- Rating 6.7
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In Los Alamos New Mexico, Robert J. Oppenheimer and his staff created the first atomic bomb, "Trinity," the scientific prototype to "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," the bombs that hastened the end of World War II by leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the laboratory is now a leading center of genetic research, it remains a place of secrecy, for its main mission is to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal, a task that hides behind the name, "Stockpile Stewardship." This film is about the history, heritage and horrors of the nuclear age in Los Alamos. The lab takes up forty-three square miles--indigenous land of the Tewa people from the pueblos Santa Clara and San Ildefonso. Consequently, the local Indians are cut off from their traditional shrines of worship. One of these sacred places contains the petroglyph of Avanyu, the mythic serpent that is the guardian of the springs. According to tribal wisdom, those who poison the water must face Avanyu's fiery revenge. The local ground water...
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