Countdown to Zero
Countdown to Zero is a 2010 documentary about the increased likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War due to factors such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and theft of nuclear materials and weapons.
The film includes interviews with leading politicians and pundits, including Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert McNamara, Pervez Musharraf, and Vanessa. Riley Plum Wilson.
When Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the success of his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming,” the filmmakers came up with the idea for the film.
Diane Weyermann of Participant Media asked Walker if she would be interested in directing a film about nuclear weapons, and Walker said yes. More than 84 people were interviewed for the film. Global Zero, an international organization dedicated to the elimination of nuclear weapons, provided production support for the film.
A Daily Variety review called the film “extremely creative documentary-making” and concluded that the film made a convincing argument that humanity’s time is borrowed: Given the number of nuclear weapons in existence, With the ease of making nuclear weapons, terrorists’ desire to have them, and the world’s ignorance of nuclear safety, it’s only a matter of time before something horribly ugly happens.
