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Directors Mark Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller unfold the somewhat overlooked aspect of history that still has dangerous repercussions in the twenty-first century. The story unravels how the United States government conducted many nuclear tests in Mercury, Nevada, from 1951 to 1992. Many nuclear weapons were blasted within this concentrated area, but 928 tests took a toll as the wind blew the radiation to other areas in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Martin Sheen narrates the film. Patrick Wayne speaks about how his father, Western film legend John Wayne, was affected by it during a film shoot.