Naive, simplistic and scaremongering

I guessed from the reviews this would be rather weak, hand-wringy stuff, an so it proved to be. The thesis seemed to be nuclear weapons BAD, terrorists plus nuclear weapons VERY BAD, and, er...

This might have had some relevance were any of the dire threats it presented of much substance, but the simple truth is that about 40% of the time the world has lived with nuclear weapons has post-dated the fall of the USSR and yet there hasn't been a theft from a store that has resulted in a bomb, and we have seen little evidence of a real threat from Soviet weapons falling into the wrong hands (implying they were in the right before, of course).

So despite genuinely chilling footage of the Madrid bombings etc, the point appears to have been missed that every single major terrorist attack of the last 30 years has NOT involved a atomic or even radiological source.

And that opening montage of carefully-selected, nationally balanced vox pops was, I'm afraid, just I'd-like-to-teach-the-world-to-sing poor.

There may be a threat, but this failed to convince me. And you can't uninvent the things anyway.


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