| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Movie Review

Nuclear Dynamite. Prod. by Gary Marcuse. Face to Face Media in cooperation with National Film Board of Canada, 2000. 72 mins. (Face to Face Media, 1818 Grant St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5L 2Y8)

In the late 1950s, as part of the Atomic Energy Commission's Atoms for Peace program, the physicist Edward Teller and other scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory set out to identify large-scale engineering projects that could supposedly be facilitated by controlled nuclear explosions. As a trial run for one such scheme, a new canal across Latin America, Teller and company devised a plan to blast out a deep-water harbor in northern Alaska, near the Inuit village of Point Hope. Nuclear Dynamite documents the history of this scheme, dubbed Project Chariot, from initial hype to its collapse amid protests by environmentalists and local residents and a national campaign focused on the hazards of radioactive fallout from nuclear testing. (An excellent account of Project Chariot is Daniel T. O'Neill's The Firecracker Boys, 1994). . . .

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