PRE-ORDER YOUR TICKETS, EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE IT! – AT 7:41 P.M.:  From the wonderful guys who gave you Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" comes more truth.  The subject:  nuclear weapons.  Of course, they know a great deal about this:

A terrifying study of the nuclear threat was launched at the Cannes film festival on Sunday, in a heavyweight campaign documentary showing how terrorists can get hold of atomic weapons.
The Cold War may be long over but "Countdown to Zero" -- from the producers behind Nobel Prize winner Al Gore's climate change polemic "An Inconvenient Truth" -- warns that nuclear bombs are easier to come by than ever.

Through interviews with former world leaders, spies, smugglers and scientists, British film-maker Lucy Walker's work shows how unsecured lumps of uranium in Russia could end up being used by terrorists to destroy cities.

Interviewees include ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair and Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan. Their conclusion: the world must push for "zero" nuclear weapons.

Huh?  Just freeze the frame for a moment.  We have a problem with smuggled nukes and parts of nukes.  The answer:  Hey, get rid of all nukes, worldwide!

You know, that would make a great junior-high-school essay.  But adults think differently.  A push to get rid of "all" nuclear weapons would have zero effect on terror groups trying to smuggle nuclear materials.  Can you imagine Osama bin Laden saying, "We must not seek these weapons.  It is against a treaty."  Yeah.

These people are like the gun confiscators.  Confiscate all the legal firearms, and only the thugs will have them.  Internationally, eliminate all the nukes held by civilized nations, and only the uncivilized will have them. 

The worthies behind this film are the usual leftist suspects.  And get this:

Among the talking heads in the film is Valerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA agent who worked on anti-proliferation and was targeted by the former US government which unmasked her in the fallout from the invasion of Iraq.

All right, don't laugh too hard.  You can damage something.  I didn't know she was still alive.

May 16, 2010