Paul Tibbets

"Trinity and Beyond" est un documentaire présentant l'histoire du développement des armes nucléaires et de leurs essais couvrant la période 1945-1963. Le film, accompagné de la voix de William Shatner et d'une musique originale exécutée par l'Orchestre Symphonique de Moscou, révèle des images appartenant au gouvernement.

A base de documents mélant actualités, archives gouvernementales et archives militaires, le portrait à la fois effrayant et hilarant d'un pays qui, des abris anti-atomiques à la propagande gouvernementale, instaure un véritable climat de paranoïa chez ses citoyens, les faisant devenir réfractaires à tout ce qui ne porte pas le label "made in USA"...

Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of Hiroshima. From the political assassinations of the second half of the 20th century to the bloody feeding frenzy of the pythons of Burma. Burned on to the screen like napalm victims of Vietnam. Followed by "Death in Focus" part 2.

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with the Buckeye Aviation Book Company, “Reflections on Hiroshima,” he recounts his memories of the day the atomic bomb was first used in warfare. Tibbets recalls how he became a pilot, and explains how the Manhattan Project’s “Silverplate” program produced a special version of the B-29 capable of delivering the atomic bomb. He also discusses the target selection process and describes the “odd couple” of J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. He remembers seeing the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and feeling the shock wave of the blast, and shares his views on the role of morality during war.