''Nuclear Tipping Point'' is a 2010
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
produced by the
Nuclear Threat Initiative. It features interviews with four American government officials who were in office during the
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
period, but are now advocating for the elimination of
nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear weapon), producing a nuclear exp ...
s:
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th National Security Advisor (United States), natio ...
,
George Shultz,
Sam Nunn, and
William Perry.
Michael Douglas narrated the film.
These "Four Cold Warriors", who each contributed in important ways to the
nuclear arms race, built on classical
deterrence theory, now argue that we must eliminate all nuclear weapons or face disaster on an enormous scale. Former Secretary Kissinger puts the new danger this way: "The classical notion of deterrence was that there was some consequences before which aggressors and evildoers would recoil. In a world of suicide bombers, that calculation doesn’t operate in any comparable way". Shultz has said, "If you think of the people who are doing suicide attacks, and people like that get a nuclear weapon, they are almost by definition not deterrable".
The film was screened at the
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest (Washington, D.C.), NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president ...
on April 6, 2010.
See also
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List of films about nuclear issues
**''
Countdown to Zero''
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Nuclear weapons debate
References
External links
''Nuclear Tipping Point'' websiteNuclear Threat Initiative official website(archived 11 June 2010)
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2010 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about the Cold War
Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons
2010 documentary films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language documentary films
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