Command and Control 2016

Documentary

Release date	Sep 14, 2016
Country	US
Language	English

Woven through the Damascus story is a riveting history of America's nuclear weapons program, from World War II through the Cold War, much of it based on recently declassified documents. A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility and extraordinary heroism, Command and Control forces viewers to confront the great dilemma that the U.S. has faced since the dawn of the nuclear age:

Woven through the Damascus story is a riveting history of America's nuclear weapons program, from World War II through the Cold War, much of it based on recently declassified documents. A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility and extraordinary heroism, Command and Control forces viewers to confront the great dilemma that the U.S. has faced since the dawn of the nuclear age: (less)

Director: Robert Kenner

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Review

Review by Brian Orndorf, October 6, 2016

Fear of nuclear annihilation isn’t quite the hot button issue it once was, seizing a sizable portion of the last century with nightmarish imagery and political threats as hostile nations back up their severity with the ability to kill everyone on the planet, practically at once. “Command and Control” recognizes the gradual relaxation around apocalyptic visions, with more critical surges in national security issues taking top importance as the world now plays a different style of fear-based gamesmanship. Director Robert Kenner (“Merchants of Doubt,” “Food, Inc.”) seeks to restore utter horror w ...read more...