Radio Bikini

Mar 12, 1988

0h 56m

★ 7.4

Overview

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Channel 4 Television

Radio Bikini Trailers

Cast

Self

Kilon Bauno

Self

John Smitherman

Self (archive footage)

Warren Austin

Self (archive footage)

Bernard Baruch

Self (archive footage)

W.H.P. Blandy

Self (archive footage)

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