A new documentary, directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Lawrence Bender, entitled Countdown To Zero, is set for wide release on July 23, 2010. The film has been heavily publicized and for many months now and is surely already a heavily-favored Oscar contender.
Though the stated goals of the film, exposing the horrifying danger of nuclear weapons and reducing the planet’s nuclear stockpile to zero, are noble and necessary indeed, some ideas promoted within the film – which can be gleaned solely from the film’s trailer and recent interviews with film contributor Valerie Plame and producer Lawrence Bender – appear to ominously echo the same sensational claims made about Iraq’s non-existent WMD, this time about the United States’ favorite scapegoat, Iran.
