This TNT Movie covers the events of operation of the Nevada Test Site in the late 1940's-early 1950's. It documents the early experiments using atomic bombs as tactical weapons, the collateral damage inflicted by such weapons, and battlefield survivability of troops when these weapons are used.
Martin Sheen plays a civilian doctor reflecting back to that time from the present, when he (Estevez) was a neophyte researcher hired to make observations of the troops being "experimented on" by the War Dept. Sheen documents what by today's standards would be clear atrocities through re-living his earlier days.
Agree or disagree with Sheen's politics, the film is outstanding. It clearly shows how naive we once were to the dangers of nuclear weapons. These earliest experiments form the body of work that now educate us to the dangers, and the film is clearly trying to show the human cost of that research.
Martin Sheen plays a civilian doctor reflecting back to that time from the present, when he (Estevez) was a neophyte researcher hired to make observations of the troops being "experimented on" by the War Dept. Sheen documents what by today's standards would be clear atrocities through re-living his earlier days.
Agree or disagree with Sheen's politics, the film is outstanding. It clearly shows how naive we once were to the dangers of nuclear weapons. These earliest experiments form the body of work that now educate us to the dangers, and the film is clearly trying to show the human cost of that research.