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DOUBLE BILL: Nuclear Tipping Point & Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda
Nuclear Tipping Point
2010 / US / 57 mins / Dir; Ben Goddard
A documentary film produced by the Nuclear Threat Initiative. It features interviews with four American government officials who were in office during the Cold War period, but are now advocating for the elimination of nuclear weapons: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and William Perry.
Introduced by Colin Powell and narrated by Michael Douglas, it presents the current nuclear threats worldwide and the actions needed to be taken for a nuclear free world. The film was screened at the White House on April 6, 2010.
Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda
1999 / India / 60 mins / Dir: Shriprakash
In Jadugoda the activites of mining, milling, and tailing-dam by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited, have deposited radioactive waste into the rice fields owned by the Adivasi people of the Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. The Adivasi have unknowingly utilized the water and land in these areas. This film documents the painful experience of the people of Jadugoda as the impact of thirty years of radiation dumping begins to manifest itself in the form of disabilities, congenital defects in new borns, cancer and other disease.






