Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace

Stephen Trombly's sobering documentary, produced for cable's Discovery Channel, looks past the psychological legacy of the nuclear arms race to its tangible remains: thousands of aging weapons stored in facilities in the US and Russia. Trombly opens with footage of the wildfire that swept New Mexico in 2000 and focused public attention on the terrifying cache of weapons stored in the fire-threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory facility, then backtracks to examine the development of atomic and nuclear weapons. Trombly mixes archival footage and interviews with surviving members of the Manhattan Project and their Russian counterparts, and visits both Los Alamos and ...