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1) Bomb Hunters
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Bomb Hunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia from untrained civilians harvesting unexploded bombs as scrap metal. The film explores the long-term consequences of war and genocide in an attempt to understand the social, cultural, and historical context and experiences of rural villagers who seek out and dismantle UXO (unexploded ordnance) for profit. Part of a global economy, these individuals clear UXO...
2) The Bomb
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Bomb explores how what started as simple scientific curiosity ultimately resulted in a weapon capable of ending civilization. The invention, says historian Richard Rhodes, Was a millennial change in human history: for the first time, we were now capable of our own destruction, as a species. The program recounts the bomb's history, as well as the successes, failures and moral dilemmas of the personalities who created it. We learn how it was developed...
Publisher
Longtail Distribution Network
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
During a military training mishap in 1958, a Mark 15, Mod Zero nuclear weapon was lost a few miles from the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia. The bomb was twelve feet long and weighing 7,600 pounds. It’s a big bomb, but it was never found. After studying the flight path of the plane that dropped the bomb, weather conditions of the night of the accident and tidal patterns of the last 50 years, a multi agency task force searched the shoals...February...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this final episode, reflect on a new era in human civilization. Although Japan was essentially defeated, the government refused to surrender. Travel with President Truman to Potsdam, Germany, where he and Churchill issued a declaration calling for "prompt and utter destruction" if Japan refused to surrender. Then deconstruct the justification for the use of the atomic bombs.
6) Lez Bomb
Author
Language
English
Description
From the executive producer of There's Something About Mary comes a holiday comedy about a woman (Writer-Director, Jenna Laurenzo) who comes home with life changing news. As it turns out, there is no good time to drop the Lez Bomb.
Author
Series
Balthazar volume 3
Language
Français
Description
While performing a postmortem on an elderly lady, Balthazar finds a bomb with a timer inside her body. After Camille helps him defuse it, they realize the bomb was set to explode during the woman's funeral, making her family the targets.
Author
Series
Green Hornet volume 5
Language
English
Description
Britt Reid trails the theft of his car to the Meadows Garage. Axford follows one of the Meadows' mechanics to a junkyard, where he and Reid narrowly escape death when the racketeers discover who they are. Meadows, realizing Reid is hot on the trail of his stolen car orders it destroyed with a time bomb. Before the bomb explodes, the Green Hornet confronts Meadows and terrifies him into a confession. The racketeers discover and attack the hornet. Kato...
10) Science kids: Hurricanes, tornadoes, bomb cyclones, atmospheric rivers, floods, and extreme weather
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about extreme weather. What are hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones? What is the Coriolis Effect? What are bomb cyclones, tornadoes, and atmospheric rivers? How is climate change leading to more flooding and other extreme weather? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with this exciting video and dynamic graphics that reinforce important concepts.
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