Dark circle

Dark Circle is a contemporary portrait of Americans in the nuclear age, told through the lives of those directly affected by it. Filmed on location over several years at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility near Denver, Colorado, the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in central California, and in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dark Circle interweaves dramatic personal stories with rare, recently declassified footage of the secret world in which the hydrogen bomb is manufactured, tested, and sold. The film reveals the ironic and complex human costs of a nuclear economy – even in the absence of a nuclear war. What is the significance of the program for input? As the world today struggles to come to grips with the nuclear threat, Dark Circle provides an indepth portrait of country now deeply affected by nuclear technology – the United States, the first country to develop and use the Bomb. The program interweaves human stories with investigative reporting into hidden aspects of nuclear weapons and nuclear power production. In so doing, it marries elements often treated separately – the individual’s emotional personal experience of the nuclear age, and ethical issues raised by the pursuit of the nuclear option. The program places the nuclear dilemma in the international context, and thus is relevant to INPUT: it tries to address the issues at all the levels they affect us at, and thus speak to an international audience also deeply concerned by the nuclear question.