Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In the suburbs of Denver, the U.S. secretly manufactured thousands of atomic weapons, leaving behind a toxic legacy that | dG1fNHM5MWNQZlQwZ0U

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00:00It's something that we should be talking about.

00:13There should be signage.

00:15There should be education for people moving in the area so they know this was previously

00:20this plant, and this is what occurred here, and it's part of our history in the U.S.

00:24It's part of our history in Colorado.

00:29People do not know, you know?

00:32People do not know.

00:33Why would you know?

00:34If they don't teach you about it, there's no signage, why would it be like, poof, you're

00:37born with this knowledge about it?

00:42The Rocky Flats plant makes plutonium parts for nuclear weapons.

00:46Last May 11th, two buildings were gutted by fire.

00:49One of the nation's key atomic bomb plants may be endangering the people of Denver, Colorado.

00:54This is the most polluted nuclear weapons plant in America.

00:57Wastes burned, dumped into landfills, discharged into screens.

01:02Some of the highest levels of radioactive plutonium in the world.

01:05When is enough enough?

01:06We have been lied to enough.

01:07There are almost 10,000 protesters.

01:08Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters.

01:09An extraordinary story is unfolding at this top secret installation.

01:10FBI.

01:11FBI.

01:12FBI.

01:13FBI agents are at the Flats right now investigating the possibility that Rocky Flats covered up

01:24potentially deadly pollution and then lied about it.

01:38They made it into a wildlife refuge and say that, oh, come on and ride your bicycle and

01:45take a picnic lunch.

01:48That's wrong.

01:49That place should never, ever be inhabited by human beings.

01:59They didn't bother to look into the future and see what's going to happen to the people

02:06coming home when they forget about Rocky Flats.