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The Nuclear legacy. Democracy in a Plutonium Economy (1997)

Auteur	F.Barnaby, Corner House
Datum	november 1997
Classificatie	6.01.2.55/21 (PLUTONIUM - ALGEMEEN)
Voorkant

THE CORNER HOUSE

Forget Chernobyl! This is far worse", pronounces a White House nuclear scientist 
(alias Nicole Kidman) in the 1997 movie, The Peacemaker. She has just learnt of 
a collision in Russia between two trains, one of which was carrying a nuclear 
warhead from a dismantled nuclear missile. With the drafted-in assistance of 
action man army colonel George Clooney (from television's ER), Kidman and 
colleagues discover that another nine warheads on the train have been stolen. They 
are being trucked overland down to the Iranian border by a Russian general who 
engineered the heist, the Bosnian buyer of one of the warheads, and a Harvard-
trained Pakistani physicist, who separates the fission trigger out of one 
thermonuclear warhead and makes it into a small bomb which fits neatly into the 
Bosnian's backpack. After car chases, helicopter downings and a lot of fatal shootings, 
action man and colleagues recover eight warheads from the truck, while Kidman 
deduces that the remaining backpack version is on its way to the United Nations in 
New York with a Bosnian diplomat. Bomb and Bosnian are tracked down. With 
seconds to spare on the timed device, Kidman bashes away at the conventional 
explosive surrounding the plutonium core, ensuring that when the explosive goes 
off, the plutonium will not reach critical mass. The device then blows and Kidman 
and Clooney are hurled through a stained glass window. An uncontrolled chain 
reaction in the plutonium - a nuclear explosion - has, however, been prevented. 
The good guys win. All is well. 
The End.

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