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Summary:

"The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs--an international movement Rotblat co-founded--to halt nuclear proliferation. The story takes us from the site of the first nuclear test, in New Mexico, to Cairo, where contemporary Pugwash scientists meet under the cloud of nuclear proliferation, and to Hiroshima, to meet survivors of the first atomic attack."--Container.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Trinity intro
• 2. Title sequence
• 3. Cairo Pugwash
• 4. Rotblat remembered
• 5. World War II begins
• 6. Los Alamos
• 7. Rotblat leaves Manhattan Project
• 8. Hiroshima
• 9. Cold War beginnings
• 10. Medical physics
• 11. Nuclear testing
• 12. Lucky dragon
• 13. Russell-Einstein manifesto
• 14. Pugwash
• 15. Khrushchev supports Pugwash
• 16. The Cuban missile crisis
• 17. Vietnam
• 18. Gorbachev
• 19. Russia and the U.S.
• 20. Rotblat final years

• 21. Us and them
• 22. Hiroshima lanterns
• 23. End credits.

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Contributors:

Bednarski, Eric , director, screenwriter

Martin, Kent , producer

Cowling, Barry , screenwriter

Christensen, David , composer

National Film Board of Canada

Bullfrog Films

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Closed-captioned.
In English.

Subjects:

Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005

Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs

Nuclear nonproliferation

Nuclear disarmament

Genres:

Motion pictures

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

DVD, NTSC.

Production Credits:

Cinematography, Nigel Markham ; editor, Angela Baker ; sound design, Alex Salter ; music, David Christensen ; narrator, Michael Jones.

General Notes:

Public performance rights included.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

STR 2008 DVD

ISBNs:

0772213437
9780772213433

OCLC Numbers:

1053432947
392701783 [Invalid]