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'Command and Control' documentary examines nuclear-weapons risks in the U.S.

(FILES) A picture taken in 1971 shows a nuclear explosion in Mururoa atoll. France said on March 24, 2009 it will compensate 150,000 victims of nuclear testing carried out in the 1960s in French Polynesia and Algeria, after decades of denying its responsibility. An initial sum of 10 million euros (14 million dollars) has been set aside for military and civilian staff as well as local populations who fell ill from radiation exposure, Defence Minister Herve Morin told Le Figaro newspaper. AFP PHOTO FILES / STRINGER (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
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'Command and Control' documentary examines nuclear-weapons risks in the U.S.

In theatres today (at the Nuart in Los Angeles), "Command and Control" is a new documentary looking at the risks of a nuclear weapons accident on American soil.

Based on Eric Schlosser's investigate book of the same name and directed by Robert Kenner ("Food, Inc."), the film recounts how a dropped wrench at an Arkansas weapons facility in 1980 could have caused an explosion 600 times as devastating as Hiroshima.

Guests:

Robert Kenner, Director, "Command and Control;" Kenner's other credits include "Merchants of Doubt" and "Food, Inc." - both critically acclaimed investigative documentaries

Eric Schlosser, Producer and Author, "Command and Control"