Guylaine Maroist

Canada | 2008 | 46 min | Documentary Directors: Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel | English Producers: Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel http://productionsdelaruelle.com/PDLRweb/en/ Language: French Synopsis: In the spring of 1957, 40 young Canadian soldiers were sent to Nevada on a top secret mission. These young men did not know they would be used as guinea pigs in the most important nuclear test program of the Cold War. The American military wanted to know how the average soldier would hold up on a nuclear battlefield. With absolutely no knowledge of the effects of radiation, the boys played “war games,” sometimes less than 1 000 yards from exploding nuclear bombs: bombs as much as four times more powerful than the bomb dropped on...