0:00:09 > 0:00:11The Government has decided
0:00:11 > 0:00:14that in the present state of international tension,
0:00:14 > 0:00:17you should be told how best to protect yourselves
0:00:17 > 0:00:20from the dangerous effects of nuclear attack.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25If this tension should lead to war,
0:00:25 > 0:00:29it is essential that you shall have taken every possible precaution
0:00:29 > 0:00:34to safeguard your family, yourself and your home.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40This film will show what are the dangers to expect
0:00:40 > 0:00:42and the best means of protection.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44- LOUDSPEAKER:- 'Put on your goggles.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49'Observers without goggles must face away from the blast.'
0:05:01 > 0:05:04SHIP'S FOGHORN BLARES
0:05:13 > 0:05:15- SAMPLED VOICE:- Scientists...
0:05:18 > 0:05:19Scientists...
0:05:37 > 0:05:39GEIGER COUNTER RUMBLES
0:05:44 > 0:05:46CLOCK TICKS
0:05:47 > 0:05:51MUFFLED CHATTER
0:06:09 > 0:06:11RUMBLING
0:06:15 > 0:06:18WHOOSHING
0:06:30 > 0:06:32From the beginning of 1945,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35the whole of Japan was within the bombing range
0:06:35 > 0:06:39of the United States Strategic Air Force, based in the Marianas.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56The people seem to us quaint, a little amusing,
0:06:56 > 0:06:58with their polite formalities.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38The cherry blossom...
0:07:38 > 0:07:40and the sharp sword.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Humility...
0:07:42 > 0:07:43and arrogance.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45A taste for the delicate...
0:07:45 > 0:07:46and the gross.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57The real Japan, the aggressor we fought to destroy,
0:07:57 > 0:08:01was based on the creed of blind obedience to the state.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03It's not difficult to create a race of puppets
0:08:03 > 0:08:06if you start on them young and never let up.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Taught that death in battle is the greatest glory.
0:08:12 > 0:08:18Mr President, why did you drop the atom bomb?
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Three weeks after the first experimental blast,
0:08:21 > 0:08:25an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Only two minutes to go.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33The standby signal to all hands.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Those neutrons bombard other uranium atoms,
0:08:40 > 0:08:45causing them to split, and split still others.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46The result?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- A chain reaction. - EXPLOSION
0:08:48 > 0:08:53Over a million billion billion atoms exploding within two seconds.
0:08:54 > 0:08:5615...
0:08:59 > 0:09:0110...
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Five...four...three...
0:09:07 > 0:09:09two...one.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00We stood for a minute in silence,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02as we used to stand on Armistice Day.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25WIND WHISTLES
0:13:28 > 0:13:30We look at the world...
0:13:30 > 0:13:31and we see madness.
0:13:32 > 0:13:37Today, we live under the threat of nuclear weapons
0:13:37 > 0:13:42with a destructive power 1,000 times greater
0:13:42 > 0:13:46than those exploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48What IS the American way of life?
0:13:48 > 0:13:53Or the British way of life, or the Russian way of life?
0:13:53 > 0:13:58The fact of the matter is, it isn't a darn thing if we do not have life.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03I feel that if we really are interested in the future
0:14:03 > 0:14:05of our children, this is the smallest thing we can do,
0:14:05 > 0:14:09to join this procession, in our small way, to ensure their future.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12JAZZ BAND PLAYS
0:14:54 > 0:15:00I did this march in the lockout in 1926.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04We slept on the Corn Exchange floor at Reading
0:15:04 > 0:15:07and we had sausage and mash in Maidenhead Workhouse,
0:15:07 > 0:15:10supplied by the Co-operative Society.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12I was very proud of that march,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15but I'd be frightfully ashamed of myself
0:15:15 > 0:15:17if I had not come on this march.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20I would never be able to look the children in the face
0:15:20 > 0:15:22if I had not come on this march.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27It isn't much, but it's all I can do, and it's my best,
0:15:27 > 0:15:31and if everybody else did their best, the children of the future
0:15:31 > 0:15:34would be saved from the atom and hydrogen bomb.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Tension continues to mount in the world situation.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Nevertheless, the Government has just announced
0:15:45 > 0:15:48that its negotiations are continuing.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51There were fresh reports today of an unidentified submarine
0:15:51 > 0:15:53shadowing units of the United States fleet
0:15:53 > 0:15:57at present carrying out manoeuvres in the Far East.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Now, here's an important announcement.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00The Government has decided to call up
0:16:00 > 0:16:02all members of the Civil Defence Corps
0:16:02 > 0:16:05to report to their headquarters.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07How on earth are we all going to stay in one little room
0:16:07 > 0:16:09for days and nights on end?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11We'd all end up in the madhouse!
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Better there than the mortuary, Mrs Richards.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40The Government has decided
0:16:40 > 0:16:43that in the present state of international tension,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46you should be told how best to protect yourselves
0:16:46 > 0:16:50from the dangerous effects of nuclear attack.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53EXPLOSION
0:17:59 > 0:18:04I'm going to explain to you the system of warning signals
0:18:04 > 0:18:08that will be used in this country in the event of a nuclear attack.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12AIR RAID SIREN BLARES
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- RADIO:- An air attack is approaching this country now.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25WHISTLE BLOWS
0:19:35 > 0:19:37MUFFLED SHOUTS AND SCREAMS
0:19:37 > 0:19:40AIR RAID SIREN BLARES
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- LOUDSPEAKER:- Flash. About turn.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17EXPLOSION
0:20:38 > 0:20:39EXPLOSION
0:20:56 > 0:21:01This bomb caused a Pacific island three miles long and one mile wide
0:21:01 > 0:21:02to completely disappear...
0:21:03 > 0:21:06..and it could do the same to a city.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31GEIGER COUNTER RUMBLES
0:22:05 > 0:22:10AEROPLANE ENGINE ROARS
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Many will show varying degrees of non-effectiveness.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26This will be due to the emotional impact
0:22:26 > 0:22:29of being exposed to massive physical destruction
0:22:29 > 0:22:31and great personal danger.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42There are certain basic principles to be followed
0:22:42 > 0:22:46in the treatment and management of mass psychological casualties.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10BABY CRIES
0:23:27 > 0:23:29EXPLOSION
0:23:29 > 0:23:32WHISTLES BLOW
0:23:32 > 0:23:36CHANTING
0:23:36 > 0:23:38By the end of next year, there will be 1,300
0:23:38 > 0:23:41American Air Force personnel moving into Greenham.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43SHOUTING
0:23:53 > 0:23:55WHISTLES BLOW
0:23:55 > 0:23:57There have been reports that demonstrators
0:23:57 > 0:24:00who approach the missile bunkers then will be shot.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09# Last night as I lay sleeping
0:24:09 > 0:24:13# My heart was filled with dread
0:24:13 > 0:24:17# I dreamt that the bomb had fallen
0:24:17 > 0:24:21# And a million people were dead
0:24:21 > 0:24:25# Millions of people were moaning
0:24:25 > 0:24:30# A million were lying there dead
0:24:30 > 0:24:33# I looked that whole scene over
0:24:33 > 0:24:37# And these were the words I said
0:24:37 > 0:24:42# We could have been happy and peaceful
0:24:42 > 0:24:46# The bomb could be banned easily
0:24:46 > 0:24:49# But those politicians
0:24:49 > 0:24:54# Did everything but agree
0:24:54 > 0:24:57# Then a voice came out of the rubble
0:24:57 > 0:25:01# "They're not only to blame
0:25:01 > 0:25:05# "We'll tell you who's really guilty"
0:25:05 > 0:25:09# Then they all started shouting my name
0:25:09 > 0:25:13# "You gave politicians their power
0:25:13 > 0:25:17# "You sat back and watched the TV
0:25:17 > 0:25:21# "You could have forced them to ban it
0:25:21 > 0:25:25# "You could have made them agree." #
0:25:27 > 0:25:29CAR ENGINE STARTS
0:25:56 > 0:25:58CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:26:41 > 0:26:42CHANTING
0:26:55 > 0:26:59This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance
0:26:59 > 0:27:03of the Soviet military build-up on the island of Cuba.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27CHEERING
0:27:32 > 0:27:33EXPLOSION
0:28:04 > 0:28:07HINGES SQUEAK
0:28:09 > 0:28:14HEAVY BREATHING THROUGH APPARATUS
0:28:18 > 0:28:20MACHINERY RATTLES
0:28:33 > 0:28:38HEAVY BREATHING THROUGH APPARATUS
0:28:40 > 0:28:44AIR PRESSURE RUSHES
0:28:54 > 0:28:57ELECTRONIC HUM
0:29:16 > 0:29:20COGS WHIRR
0:29:31 > 0:29:33ROCKET ENGINE ROARS
0:29:54 > 0:29:57ROCKET ENGINE ROARS
0:31:50 > 0:31:54On June 16th 1963, people everywhere were talking
0:31:54 > 0:31:57about the woman who had soared to the stars.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47We should stand and not have no bombs.
0:32:47 > 0:32:48I would like Britain to stay out.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50I don't agree with it at all, you know.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53I just think it is against the...
0:32:53 > 0:32:55The betterment of world peace, you know?
0:32:55 > 0:32:59So it's obviously completely untrue
0:32:59 > 0:33:02that nuclear weapons have prevented war.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41EXPLOSIONS
0:33:51 > 0:33:55AEROPLANE ENGINE ROARS
0:34:10 > 0:34:12'In a few moments,
0:34:12 > 0:34:16'this robot will cross the line that means death to any living being.'
0:34:31 > 0:34:32APPLAUSE
0:34:37 > 0:34:41The fact that you, in your patriotic zeal,
0:34:41 > 0:34:45are willing to make your land radioactive forever...
0:34:45 > 0:34:47How can you call yourself a patriot?
0:34:47 > 0:34:49You have love for that land
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- and you don't have any love for the people on that land?- So that's...
0:34:52 > 0:34:54Not just the land of India but the land of Pakistan.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56We all know that if you drop a bomb in India,
0:34:56 > 0:34:58Pakistanis will also die...
0:34:58 > 0:35:02from the same bomb, not from the retaliation.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05'On a grey spring morning in 1961, the first of the Polaris
0:35:05 > 0:35:09'nuclear submarines sailed up the Holy Loch in the Clyde.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12'But nuclear disarmament protesters turned out in force
0:35:12 > 0:35:15'to greet the first American nuclear-armed naval forces
0:35:15 > 0:35:16'to arrive in Scotland.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19'A flotilla of canoes paddled out to the Proteus,
0:35:19 > 0:35:21'a US supply ship moored in the loch.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24'Attempts to board the Proteus were fended off by hoses,
0:35:24 > 0:35:27'but the protest was undeterred.'
0:35:44 > 0:35:47'The nuclear reactor aboard this Trafalgar class submarine
0:35:47 > 0:35:50'enables it to stay submerged for months.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53'It needs refuelling only once every ten years.'
0:36:37 > 0:36:39SHIP'S FOGHORN BLARES
0:37:00 > 0:37:04'It was 4:00am on the 28th of March, 1979.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07'The night shift controlling the second of two reactors...'
0:37:07 > 0:37:11'At the Three Mile Island power station in Pennsylvania,
0:37:11 > 0:37:13'a series of human and mechanical errors
0:37:13 > 0:37:16'caused the nuclear reactor to overheat.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20'As the temperature increased, so too did the risk
0:37:20 > 0:37:24'that the radioactive fuel would escape its casing.'
0:37:27 > 0:37:30WOMAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:37:31 > 0:37:33'Come over, my dear. I'm all alone here.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36'Let's tell them how it all happened.
0:37:36 > 0:37:41'By midnight, the air became as still as ever.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44'At 1:00am, I suddenly heard a bang.
0:37:44 > 0:37:49'This was followed by greyish black smoke topped by a mushroom.'
0:38:01 > 0:38:04WOMAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:38:04 > 0:38:09'The story of Anna Khodemchuk.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12'He was coming home from Kiev and called on me.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16'Didn't stay long because he had to be in time for the night shift.'
0:38:16 > 0:38:19'He went out in to the street, took a look at the yard,
0:38:19 > 0:38:21'and said, "Goodbye.
0:38:21 > 0:38:27'I said, "Good luck." He went away and I never saw my son again.'
0:38:30 > 0:38:33ANNA SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:38:33 > 0:38:36'I just can't imagine that where there had been
0:38:36 > 0:38:39'400 people working, he alone remained.
0:38:39 > 0:38:43'Wherever I go, I keep thinking of him.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45'If only he would come to me in my dreams,
0:38:45 > 0:38:48'but he never does.'
0:38:51 > 0:38:54ANNA SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:38:54 > 0:38:59'If only there was a grave, but there was nothing left of him.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02'I shall always remember how he stood there in the yard
0:39:02 > 0:39:03'for the last time.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05'I would have flown after him
0:39:05 > 0:39:09'if only I had wings, just to catch a glimpse of him.'
0:39:24 > 0:39:27MAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:39:27 > 0:39:30'Chugunov, first reactor shop of the plant.'
0:39:31 > 0:39:36'As I see it, this is not an accident - it's a catastrophe.'
0:39:53 > 0:39:55'If you come up to this hood, it's 200.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58'And there, near those pipes, which popped out of the apparatus
0:39:58 > 0:40:02'during the explosion, it's approximately 1,000 roentgen.'
0:40:24 > 0:40:28GEIGER COUNTER RUMBLES
0:40:33 > 0:40:37MAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:40:37 > 0:40:39'I have lived here all of my life.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42'My grandfather and father have lived here.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44'And I've been here for 68 years now.'
0:40:49 > 0:40:53'No-one ever heard of such misfortune, except the war.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57'The war was simpler - go through the fighting and there you are.
0:40:57 > 0:41:01'This is smothering everyone and poisoning everything.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06'The best thing is to have no more radiation.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14'Now, when many have stayed to work in the zone,
0:41:14 > 0:41:16'and others have left their native parts,
0:41:16 > 0:41:19'when the children have been taken away from here,
0:41:19 > 0:41:22'one can't help noticing how our villages have aged.'
0:41:27 > 0:41:30'We have a large household. How can I leave it just like that?
0:41:30 > 0:41:35'A large kitchen garden, three cows, two pigs, 28 chickens,
0:41:35 > 0:41:37'and all this is the work of my own hands.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39'It's terrible to leave it go.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44'But if it's necessary, we will leave.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48'We'll work day and night just to set things right for our children,
0:41:48 > 0:41:50'for all people on earth,
0:41:50 > 0:41:54'because the sun and the sky are all very dear to us.'
0:42:01 > 0:42:06Mr President, why did you drop the atom bomb?
0:43:26 > 0:43:28WOMAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:43:28 > 0:43:32'When the sun came out at dawn, we felt our hearts would break.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36'To think of the tears that were shed when we left our village.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38'We're terribly homesick.'
0:43:41 > 0:43:44MAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:43:44 > 0:43:47'Unfortunately, we cannot predict the changes
0:43:47 > 0:43:50'that may take place ten generations from now.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53'To think of the calamity that has befallen us.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55'There's not a day that we don't cry.'
0:44:40 > 0:44:44GEIGER COUNTER RUMBLES
0:45:15 > 0:45:21GEIGER COUNTER RUMBLES
0:46:19 > 0:46:20'In a few moments,
0:46:20 > 0:46:24'this robot will cross the line that means death to any living being.'
0:46:28 > 0:46:31'The robot will go on without the operator.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34'He will stay behind a shelter with the control panel.
0:46:34 > 0:46:38'He knows that here, too, time is measured in seconds.
0:46:38 > 0:46:39'See how alert he is?
0:46:39 > 0:46:43'That's because he's already aware of the danger that is imperceptible.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47'It means that he has crossed into the age of nuclear power.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54'No-one will gather these apples.
0:46:54 > 0:46:57'They will rot together with their radioactive seeds.'
0:47:16 > 0:47:19MAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
0:47:19 > 0:47:22'It's terrible to think, what if it had been an atom bomb?
0:47:23 > 0:47:26'This was an explosion and there was tragedy galore.'
0:47:31 > 0:47:33'It's the easiest thing to say
0:47:33 > 0:47:36'that these fishermen haven't caught up with the nuclear age yet.
0:47:36 > 0:47:40'But cannot those who have caught up with it see how closely
0:47:40 > 0:47:43'we are bound to our common home, the earth?
0:47:43 > 0:47:45'Is there anything that can replace it?'
0:48:01 > 0:48:05Mishandled, nuclear fission can be very dangerous.
0:48:05 > 0:48:09The world cannot afford accidents like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28'For the fishermen and crofters in this area of northernmost Scotland
0:48:28 > 0:48:31'were the first people in the world to use electricity generated
0:48:31 > 0:48:33'by a new kind of nuclear reactor,
0:48:33 > 0:48:35'the fast breeder nuclear reactor.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39'The Dounreay Fast Reactor or DFR
0:48:39 > 0:48:41'was opened 14 years ago in 1959...'
0:49:14 > 0:49:18I don't want to work on the nuclear reactors, so I'm not the slightest bit concerned about them.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20I don't think so. I don't really worry about it.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23It's all right, gives employment to a lot of people here.
0:49:23 > 0:49:27No, it never worries us. None of us.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29It's a good job it did come here,
0:49:29 > 0:49:31otherwise there'd be no work or nothing here.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48'The huge white cloud bursting across the horizon
0:49:48 > 0:49:50'is the number one reactor shed,
0:49:50 > 0:49:53'the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant,
0:49:53 > 0:49:56'being torn apart by some kind of very large explosion.'
0:50:00 > 0:50:01IN JAPANESE:
0:51:31 > 0:51:34'Tuberculosis has attacked the joints and bones of these children,
0:51:34 > 0:51:38'and in the old days they'd have grown up crippled and deformed,
0:51:38 > 0:51:40'but today most of them can be cured.'
0:51:58 > 0:52:01One can implant them in the body to power a...
0:52:02 > 0:52:06..heart pacemaker to keep the heart going of a heart sufferer.
0:52:07 > 0:52:10'Richard Rogers lectures at a technical college in Southampton.
0:52:10 > 0:52:14'He suffers from an illness which makes him subject to fits.
0:52:15 > 0:52:18'It was known that he had cancer of the liver.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21'The Aberdeen researchers were keen to see if tumours would show up
0:52:21 > 0:52:22'on the NMR scanner.
0:52:24 > 0:52:28'They showed liver tumours far more clearly than expected.'
0:52:37 > 0:52:39'Gamma rays are the most penetrating,
0:52:39 > 0:52:41'but the least ionising.
0:52:41 > 0:52:45'Not so penetrating, but more ionising, are neutrons,
0:52:45 > 0:52:47'which are not rays, but particles.'
0:52:56 > 0:52:59'In the fields of medicine and biochemistry,
0:52:59 > 0:53:02'isotopes are performing near miracles
0:53:02 > 0:53:04'of diagnosis and discovery.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08'With radioactive sodium,
0:53:08 > 0:53:12'doctors are solving more of the seeming mysteries of heart disease.'
0:53:12 > 0:53:13ELECTRONIC SOUNDS
0:53:23 > 0:53:26'The scan revealed that he was not epileptic.
0:53:28 > 0:53:32'Such close monitoring would not have been possible without NMR.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37'Mr Donald Longmore, who heads the NMR unit,
0:53:37 > 0:53:39'was once a heart surgeon,
0:53:39 > 0:53:41'but when he realised what NMR could do,
0:53:41 > 0:53:44'he gave up surgery and devoted himself to this technique,
0:53:44 > 0:53:48'which can warn of disease long before surgery is required.
0:53:50 > 0:53:54'An eye mask, which allows detection of tiny spots on the eye,
0:53:54 > 0:53:56'a tell-tale sign of brain tumours.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59'Such experiments may one day give
0:53:59 > 0:54:01'doctors that vital extra time to save human life.'
0:54:13 > 0:54:16The atomic energy in...
0:54:16 > 0:54:18well, just the paper of this book,
0:54:18 > 0:54:22is the equivalent of the power produced by Hoover Dam
0:54:22 > 0:54:25in one full year of operation.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28Enough to supply the electrical needs of your home
0:54:28 > 0:54:30for one million years.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31'Christopher will be one of the very first children whose cancer cells
0:56:31 > 0:56:34'are trapped by a magnet.'
0:56:34 > 0:56:37The only reason we took her to the doctor originally
0:56:37 > 0:56:39was because she was getting a lot of colds
0:56:39 > 0:56:43and the doctor suspected there was something more than that wrong with her.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46After our initial visit to our local hospital,
0:56:46 > 0:56:48we were told not to worry.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52They thought Elizabeth was a near miss for a certain syndrome.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56And then I heard a radio programme and, as the programme progressed,
0:56:56 > 0:56:59I realised that all the symptoms that they were talking about
0:56:59 > 0:57:01were present in Elizabeth...
0:57:01 > 0:57:03and developing.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06And it was then that I realised what it was that she had.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23'As Christopher's marrow flows through the tube,
0:57:23 > 0:57:25'the cancer cells, covered in beads,
0:57:25 > 0:57:27'are pulled down to the magnets and held fast.'
0:57:34 > 0:57:36Hello, Chris. Can you hear me?
0:57:36 > 0:57:38- Yes.- Are you feeling sleepy?
0:57:38 > 0:57:41'A weapon as ruthless as a death ray is switched on.
0:57:44 > 0:57:48'Christopher is exposed to the equivalent of a nuclear explosion.'
0:57:53 > 0:57:56- SHE SOBS:- While she's alive,
0:57:56 > 0:57:57there's hope.
0:57:57 > 0:58:00While she was alive, all the time.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02You know, it's back of your mind that it might happen.
0:58:02 > 0:58:05You know you've been warned of it, but ...
0:58:07 > 0:58:08..when it does happen, it's...
0:58:10 > 0:58:13..quite a shock. It wasn't expected.
0:58:13 > 0:58:14But...
0:58:16 > 0:58:18I think...you know,
0:58:18 > 0:58:20looking back on it,
0:58:20 > 0:58:21at least we gave her a chance.
0:58:23 > 0:58:26Otherwise, you know, she would have had no chance at all.
0:58:26 > 0:58:27She was going to die anyway.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31And...
0:58:31 > 0:58:33we gave her a chance.
0:58:33 > 0:58:35She's been spared an awful lot of suffering.
0:58:37 > 0:58:39We have to be grateful for that.
0:58:41 > 0:58:44UPLIFTING MUSIC
0:59:33 > 0:59:34'And then there's the computer
0:59:34 > 0:59:37'and all the tasks it can perform.
0:59:37 > 0:59:39'This, too, is a spin-off from particle physics.
0:59:41 > 0:59:44'CERN has developed a new part of the Internet,
0:59:44 > 0:59:45'the World Wide Web.
0:59:47 > 0:59:50'Scientists come here from all over the world.
0:59:50 > 0:59:54'Over 70 different nationalities make this one of the most cosmopolitan places
0:59:54 > 0:59:55'on the planet.'
0:59:55 > 0:59:56Bonsoir.
1:00:03 > 1:00:05TUNNEL WHIRS
1:00:11 > 1:00:12SOUNDS ECHO
1:00:17 > 1:00:18WHIRRING INTENSIFIES
1:00:18 > 1:00:20MUSIC RESUMES
1:00:27 > 1:00:28ONLY MUSIC PLAYS
1:01:00 > 1:01:02'How will that nuclear fusion reactor work?
1:01:33 > 1:01:35'It's the nucleus which provides the power
1:01:35 > 1:01:37'by fusing or joining with other nuclei.'
1:02:00 > 1:02:03'Some people think that to dance is frivolous,
1:02:03 > 1:02:07'that it means you're not serious, up for a good time.
1:02:07 > 1:02:10'Gaiety is part of this thing, too.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12'It's no use being against death
1:02:12 > 1:02:15'if you don't how to enjoy life while you've got it.'
1:02:22 > 1:02:23MUSIC ENDS
1:02:26 > 1:02:29TRANSLATION: 'The soldiers warned us not to come here,
1:02:29 > 1:02:31'but nobody's going to shoot anyway.'
1:02:37 > 1:02:39We came to do some fishing today.
1:02:39 > 1:02:41What's there to be afraid of?
1:02:41 > 1:02:44This isn't the first time we've been eating the fish.
1:02:48 > 1:02:50Can it be contaminated in the water?
1:02:50 > 1:02:52Or maybe the organism gets used to it?
1:02:59 > 1:03:03To our mind, these are peaceful times and not wartime.
1:03:10 > 1:03:12It's the easiest thing to say
1:03:12 > 1:03:15that these fishermen haven't caught up with the nuclear age yet.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18But cannot those who have caught up with it
1:03:18 > 1:03:22see how closely we are bound to our common home, the earth?
1:03:22 > 1:03:24Is there anything that can replace it?
1:03:26 > 1:03:28HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE
1:03:49 > 1:03:52Who knows whether we'll be taking in the crop or not?
1:03:55 > 1:03:57But we do our best to think of the future.
1:04:07 > 1:04:09ELECTRONIC HEARTBEAT
1:04:18 > 1:04:21TRANSLATION: But if it's necessary, we will leave.
1:04:21 > 1:04:23We'll work day and night
1:04:23 > 1:04:25just to set things right for our children,
1:04:25 > 1:04:27for all people on earth,
1:04:27 > 1:04:30because the sun and the sky are all very dear to us.
1:05:02 > 1:05:04MUSIC INTENSIFIES
1:07:37 > 1:07:39SIREN WAILS
1:07:39 > 1:07:40'9:16 AM...
1:07:40 > 1:07:44'A single megaton nuclear missile overshoots Manston airfield in Kent
1:07:44 > 1:07:47'and airbursts six miles from this position.'
1:07:51 > 1:07:53BOY SCREAMS
1:07:53 > 1:07:55PEOPLE SCREAM
1:07:56 > 1:07:58MAN SHOUTS