I have been requesting that Bulletin subscribers might like to forward reviews on things they have watched, read, listened to, or eaten [in the case of a great restaurant]. To hopefully kick of a deluge of responses I have added, below, a recommendation of what I thought was a very interesting documentary.
Members are generally all of an age where we can remember the fear that was generated with danger that the world would be engulfed in a nuclear war.
Practice at getting under a school desk, classroom films showing how far the damage from a bomb would spread and class readings of a book on the bombing of Hiroshima called the Day of The Bomb are likely to be dimly remembered events. Much more recently some will have attended the movie, Oppenheimer.
Netflix have a 2024 series called Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War which chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb, the enormous expenditure on manpower and money, the fear that the Soviet Union would gain an ascendency and the spread of nuclear arms over the following decades. It continues past the dissolution of the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin's ascent and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.