A WOPR of a Tale
20. Jul, 2010 
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Countdown to Zero
or How I Learned Nothing New About
The Worrisome & Overloved Bomb
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The United States has nuclear weapons.  Russia does too.  So do a bunch of other countries.  Some of them are scary countries that are even scarier cause they have nuclear weapons (guess which ones????).  The world would be a much better place if no one had nuclear weapons.  Is this news to you?  Probably not, but if it is news to you, then you’re probably in elementary school and if so, you probably shouldn’t be reading this site.  There’s basically 30 minutes of info rehashed 3 times over in Lucy Walker‘s attempt at an inconvenient, but obvious truth that goes by the name Countdown To Zero.  The only thing you’ll be counting down to is the minutes remaining until this redundant history lesson is over.  Snap!  Snap indeed.  Even with an impressive roll call of talking heads of state (Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Pervez Musharraf, Robert McNamara and Jimmy Carter), all being talked over by Gary Oldman, there’s just nuttin here that’s a bombshell.  Tick, tick, boo?
Doc-torate: do yerself a flavor and watch the franztatsic ’82 doc Atomic Cafe instead [for free on hulu!]
Verdictgo:  its heart is in the right place, even if its information is already in the place called your brain, so Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges
Zero wants you +1 this Friday in NY & DC only and elsewhere elsewhen
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
