All language subtitles for Atomic Living in Dread and Promise (2015).English

Presenter: The government
has decided that in

the present state
of international tension, you

should be told how best
to protect yourselves

from the dangerous
effects of nuclear attack.

If this tension
should lead to war, it

is essential that
you should have taken

every possible
precaution to safeguard

your family, yourself and your home.

This film will show
what are the dangers

to expect and the best
means of protection.

Speaker 1: Put on your goggles.

Observers without goggles
must face away from the blast.

[music]

Speaker 2: Scientist, scientist.

[background conversations]

[music]

Speaker 1: From
the beginning of 1945,

the whole of Japan
was within the bombing

range of the United States Strategic
Air Force based in the Marianas.

[music]

Speaker 1: The people
seemed to us quaint,

a little amusing with
their polite formalities.

[music]

Speaker 1: The cherry blossom
and the sharp sword, humility,

and arrogance, the taste for
the delicate and the gross.

[music]

Speaker 1: The real Japan,
the aggressor we fought to destroy

was based on the creed of blind
obedience to the state.

It's not difficult to create
a race of puppets

if we start on them
young and never let up.

Taught that death in battle
is the greatest glory.

Speaker 2: Mr. President,
why did you drop the atom bomb?

Speaker 3: Three weeks after
the first experimental blast,

an atomic bomb was dropped on
the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Only two minutes to go,
the stand by signal to all hands.

Presenter: Those neutrons
bombard other uranium

atoms causing them to split
and split still others.

The result, a chain reaction
over a million, billion,

billion atoms exploding
within two seconds.

Speaker 4: 15, 10,

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

[music]

Speaker 1: We stood
for a minute in silence

as we used to stand on Armistice Day.

[music]

Speaker 1: We look at
the world and we see madness.

Today, we live under
the threat of nuclear

weapons for their destructive power.

One thousand times greater than those
exploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Speaker 5: What is
the American way of life

or the British way of life
or the Russian way of life?

The fact of the matter is it isn't
a darn thing if we do not have life.

Speaker 6: I feel
that if we really are

interested in the future
of our children, this is

the smallest thing we
can do to join this

procession in a small way
to ensure their future.

[music]

Speaker 7: I did this march
in the lockout in 1926.

We slept on the Corn
Exchange floor at Redin.

We had sausage and mash
and made networkers

supplied by the cooperative society.

I was very proud of that march.

I'd be frightfully ashamed of myself
if I had not come on this march.

I would never be able
to look at the children

in the face if I had
not come on this march.

It's not much but it's all I can
do, and it's my best.

If everybody else did their
best, the children or the future

would be saved from
the oxygen and hydrogen bomb.

Speaker 1: Tension continues
to mount the world situation.

Nevertheless, the government has just

announced that negotiations
are continuing.

There were fresh reports today

of an unidentified
submarine shadowing unit

to the United States
fleet, at present

carrying out maneuvers
in the Far East.

Now, here's an important
announcement.

The government has decided
to call up all members

of the civil defense corp
to report to their headquarters.

Speaker 8: How on Earth
we're all going to say

in one little room for
days and nights on end?

We all end up in the madhouse.

Speaker 9: Better there than
the mortuary, Mrs. Richards.

[background noise] [music]

Speaker 1: The government
has decided that in

the present state
of international tension, you

should be told how best
to protect yourselves

from the dangerous
effects of nuclear attack.

[music]

Speaker 1: I'm going to explain
to you the system of warning signals

that will be used in this country
in the event of a nuclear attack.

[horns signal]

[music]

Speaker 1: This bomb caused
a Pacific Island three

miles long and one mile wide
to completely disappear.

It could do the same to a city.

[music]

Speaker 1: Many will show varying
degrees of non-effectiveness.

This would be due to the emotional
impact of being exposed

to massive physical destruction
and great personal danger.

[music]

Speaker 1: There are certain
basic principles to be followed in

the treatment and management
of mass psychological casualties.

[music]

Speaker 10: By the end of next
year, there will be 1,300

American Air Force personnel
moving into Greenham.

Speaker 11: There have been
reports that demonstrators

who approached the missile
bunkers then would be shot.

[music] Speaker 12: Last
night as I lay sleeping.

My heart was filled with dread.

I dreamt that the bomb had fallen
and a million people were dead.

Millions of people were mourning
and million were lying there dead.

I looked that whole scene over
and these were the words I said.

We could have been
happy and peaceful.

The bomb could be banned easily.

Those politicians did
everything but agree.

Then a voice came out of the rubble.

They're not only to blame.

We'll tell you who’s really guilty.

Then they all started
shouting my name.

You gave politicians their power.

You sat back and watch the TV.

You could have forced them to ban it.

You could have made them agree.

[music] [background noise]

Speaker 1: This government has
promised, has maintained the closest

surveillance of the Soviet military
buildup on the island of Cuba.

[background noise]

[music] [background noise]

[music]

Speaker 1: On June 16,
1963, people everywhere were

talking about the woman who
had soared to the stars.

[background noise]

Speaker 13: We should not
stand and not have no bombs.

Speaker 14: I would like
Britain to stay out.

Speaker 15: I don't agree
with it entirely, no.

I think it is against
the betterment of our peace.

Speaker 16: It's obviously
completely untrue

that nuclear weapons
have prevented war.

[music]

[background noise]

Speaker 17: In a few moments,
this robot will cross

the line that means death
to any living being.

[background noise]

[music]

Speaker 18: The fact that you in your
patriotic zeal are willing to make

your land radioactive forever,
how can you call yourself a patriot?

Your love for that
land and you don't have

any love for the people on that land.

Not just the land of India
but the land of Pakistan.

We all know that if you drop
a bomb in India, Pakistanis

will also die from the same
bomb, not from the retaliation.

Speaker 1: On a Gray Spring, morning
in 1961, the first of the Polaris

nuclear submarine sailed up
the Holy Loch in the Clyde.

Nuclear disarmament protesters turned
out in force to greet the first

American nuclear-armed naval
forces to arrive in Scotland.

A flotilla of canoes
paddled out to the Proteus,

a US supply ship moored on the Loch.

Attempts to board
the Proteus were fended

off by hoses,
but the protest was undeterred.

[music]

Speaker 19: The nuclear
reactor aboard this Trafalgar

Class submarine enables it
to stay submerged for months.

It needs refueling only
once every 10 years.

[background noise]

[music]

Speaker 20: It was 4:00 AM
on the 28th of March, 1979.

The [?] controlling the second
of two reactors on the...

Speaker 21: At Three
Mile Island power

station in Pennsylvania, a series

of human and mechanical errors caused
the nuclear reactor to overheat.

As the temperature increased,
so too did the risk

that the radioactive fuel
would escape its casing.

Speaker 22: [foreign language]

Speaker 23: Come on [?].
I'm all alone here.

Let's tell them how it all happened.

By midnight,
the air became as still as ever.

At 1:00 AM, I suddenly heard a bang.

This was followed by a grayish-black
smoke, topped by a mushroom.

[music]

Speaker 22: [foreign language]

Speaker 23: The story of [?] He was

coming home from Kyiv
and called on me.

Didn't stay long because he had
to be in time for the night shift.

He went out into the street, took
a look at the yard and said goodbye.

I said, "Good luck."

He went away and I
never saw my son again.

Speaker 22: [foreign language]

Speaker 23: I just can't
imagine that where there

were had been 400 people
working he alone remained.

Wherever I go.
I keep thinking of him.

If only he would come to me in
my dreams, but he never does.

Speaker 22: [foreign language]

Speaker 23: If only
there was a grave,

but there was nothing left of him.

I shall always remember how he stood
there in the yard for the last time.

I would have flown
after him if only I had

wings just to catch a glimpse of him.

Civilian 1: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: Chugunov,
first reactor [?].

As I see it, this is not an accident,
it's a catastrophe.

[music]

Narrator 1: If you
come up to this hood,

it's 200,
and there near those pipes, which

popped out of the apparatus
during the explosion,

is approximately 1,000 roentgen.

[music]

Civilian 2: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: I have
lived here all my life.

My grandfather and father
had lived here,

and I've been here for 68 years now.

Civilian 2: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: No one ever heard
of such misfortune, except the war.

The war was simpler.

Go through the fighting
and there you are.

This is smothering everyone
and poisoning everything.

Civilian 3: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: The best thing
is to have no more radiation.

Now, when many have
stayed to work in the zone

and others have left
their native parts, when

the children have been
taken away from here, one

can't help noticing how
our villages have aged.

Civilian 4: We have
a large household.

How can I leave it just like that?

A large kitchen garden, 3
cows, 2 pigs, 28 chickens.

All this is the work of my own hands.

It's terrible to leave it go.

But if it's necessary, we will leave.

We'll work day and night just to set
things right for our children, for

all people on earth, because the sun
and the sky are all very dear to us.

Child: Mr. President,
why did you drop the atom bomb?

[music]

Narrator 1: When the sun came out at
dawn, we felt our hearts would break.

To think of the tears
that were shed when we

left our village,
we're terribly homesick.

Civilian 5: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: Unfortunately,
we cannot predict the changes

that may take place 10
generations from now.

To think of the calamity
that has befallen

us, there's not a day
that we don't cry.

[music]

In a few moments,
this robot will cross

the line that means death
to any living being.

The robot will go on
without the operator.

He will stay behind a shelter
with a control panel.

He knows that here too time
is measured in seconds.

See how alert he is.

That's because he's already aware
of the danger that is imperceptible.

It means that he has crossed
into the age of nuclear power.

No one will gather these apples.

They will rot together with
their radioactive seeds.

[music]

It's terrible to think,
what if it had been an atom bomb?

This was an explosion
and it was tragedy galore.

It's the easiest thing
to say that these fishermen

haven't caught up with
the nuclear age yet, but

cannot those who have
caught up with it see how

closely we are bound to our
common home, the earth?

Is there anything
that can replace it?

Narrator 2: Mishandled, nuclear
fission can be very dangerous.

The world cannot afford accidents
like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island.

[music]

Narrator 3: For the fishermen
and crofters in this

area of Northernmost Scotland
were the first people in

the world to use electricity
generated by a new kind

of nuclear reactor: the fast
breeder nuclear reactor.

The Dounreay Fast Reactor, or DFR,
was opened 14 years ago in 1959.

[music]

Civilian 6: I don't want
to work on a nuclear reactor,

so I'm not slightly a bit
concerned about them.

Civilian 7: I don't think so.
I don't really worry about it.

Civilian 8: Well, it's all right.

Give employment to a lot
of people here.

Civilian 9: No. Never worry as such.

No [?] It's a good
[?] we did come here.

Otherwise, there'd be no work [?].

Narrator 3: The huge white
cloud bursting across

the horizon is the number
one reactor shed at

the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant being

torn apart by some kind
of very large explosion.

Japanese Speaker 1:
[Japanese language]

Japanese Speaker 2:
[Japanese language]

[music]

Narrator 4: Tuberculosis has attacked
the joints and bones of these

children, and in the old days they'd
have grown up crippled than before.

But today most of them can be cured.

[music]

Speaker 4: One could Implant
them in the body to power

a heart pacemaker to keep the heart
going over heart suffer.

Narrator 5: Richard Rogers lectures

of a technical college
in Southampton.

He suffers from an illness
which makes him subject to fits.

It was known that he
had cancer of the liver.

The Aberdeen researchers
were keen to see

if tumors would show
up on the NMR scanner.

They showed liver tumors far
more clearly than expected.

[music]

Narrator 6: Gamma Rays are the most
penetrating but the least ionizing.

Not so penetrating
but more ionizing are

neutrons,
which are not rays but particles.

In the fields of medicine
and biochemistry, isotopes are

performing near miracles
of diagnosis and discovery.

With radioactive sodium,
doctors are solving

more of the seeming
mysteries of heart disease.

[music]

Narrator 5: The scan revealed
that he was not epileptic.

Such close monitoring would not
have been possible without an NMR.

Mr. Donald Langlois, who heads
the NMR unit, was once a heart

surgeon, but when he realized
what NMR could do, he

gave up surgery and diverted
himself to this technique

which can warn of disease long
before surgery is required.

An eye mask which
allows detection of tiny

spots on the eye,
the telltale sign of brain

tumors, such experiments
may one day give doctors

that vital extra time
to save human life.

Speaker 5: The atomic energy
in, well, just a paper in

this book, is the equivalent
of the power produced by

Hoover Dam in one full year
of operation, enough to supply

the electrical needs of your
home for 1 million years.

[music]

Narrator 7: Christopher will
be one of the very first

children whose cancer cells
are trapped by a magnet.

Speaker 6: The only
reason we took her

to the doctor originally
was because she was

getting rather cold,
and the doctor suspected

of something more than
that wrong with her.

Speaker 7: After our
initial visit to our

local hospital,
we were told not to worry.

They thought Elizabeth this was
a near miss for a certain syndrome.

Then I heard a radio
program, and as the program

progressed, I realized that all

the symptoms that they
were talking about

were present in
Elizabeth and developing.

It was then that I realized
what it was that she had.

[music]

Narrator 1: As Christopher's marrow
flows through the tube, the cancer

cells covered in beads are pulled
down to the magnets and held fast.

[music]

Nurse: Hello, Chris, can you hear me?

Chris: Yes.

Nurse: You're feeling sleepy.

Chris: Yes.

Narrator 7: A weapon as ruthless
as a death ray is switched on.

This device is exposed
to the equivalent

of a nuclear explosion.

Speaker 7: What if [?] she's alive?

I just hope, "What if she
was alive?" all that time.

You know at the back of your
mind that it might happen.

You know you've been warned of it,
but yes,

when it does happen,
it's quite a shock.

It wasn't expected,
but I think looking

back on it,
at least we gave her a chance.

Otherwise,
she would've had no chance at all.

She was going to die anyway.

We gave her a chance.

She's been speared
an awful lot of suffering.

We hope to be grateful for that.

[music]

Narrator 8: Then there's a computer
and all the tasks it can perform.

This tool is a spinoff
from particle physics.

CERN has developed a new part
of the internet, the World Wide Web.

Scientists come here
from all over the world.

Over 70 different
nationalities make this one

of the most cosmopolitan
places on the planet.

[music]

Narrator 9: Now we're on
the nuclear fusion reactor work.

It's the nucleus which
provides the power

by fusing or joining
with other nuclei.

Some people think that
to dance is frivolous, but

it means you're not serious,
out for a good time.

Gaiety is part of this thing too.

It's no use being against
death if you don't

know how to enjoy life
when you've got it.

Narrator 1: The soldiers
warned us not to come here.

But nobody's going to shoot anyway.

Civilian 5: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: We came to do
some fishing today.

What's there to be afraid of?

This isn't the first time
we've been eating the fish.

Civilian 5: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: Cannot be
contaminated in the water,

or maybe the organism
gets used to it.

Civilian 5: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: To our mind, these are
peaceful times and not wartime.

Civilian 6: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: It's the easiest
thing to say that these

fishermen haven't caught up
with the nuclear age yet.

But cannot those who have
caught up with it see how

closely we are bound to our
common home, the earth?

Is there anything
that can replace it?

Civilian 6: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: Who knows whether
we'll be taking in the crop or not.

But we do our best
to think of the future.

Civilian 4: [foreign language]

Narrator 1: But if it's
necessary, we will leave.

We'll work day and night just to set
things right for our children, for

all people on earth, because the sun
and the sky are all very dear to us.

[music]

Narrator 8: 9:16 AM.

A single megaton nuclear
missile overshoots Manston

Airfield in Kent and [?] six
miles from this position.

[music]

[music]