Blowing Up Paradise

Name: Blowing Up Paradise
Director: Ben Lewis
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-03-16
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 7.0

200579m

★ 7.0

Documentary

Blowing Up Paradise uses color archival footage to chronicle France's explosion of various nuclear devices, in violation of the international test ban treaty, from the first test in 1966 to the last in 1995. Interviews with former and current French government officials, scientists, and nuclear advisors.

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