ABOUT LAST BEST CHANCE
Last Best Chance is a docudrama that shows the threat posed by vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials around the world and underscores what the stakes are.
Watching Last Best Chance, and sharing it with others, is a great way to raise public awareness and build support for efforts to keep nuclear weapons materials out of terrorist hands.
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| Terrorists stealing highly enriched uranium from a research reactor (scene from Last Best Chance). |
In the movie, al Qaeda operatives organize three separate operations aimed at getting nuclear weapons. The material is then fabricated into three crude nuclear weapons by small groups of trained terrorists, who have recruited bomb-making experts to help them manufacture their weapons.
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| U.S. President Ross (Fred D. Thompson)as he learns of a terrorist plot to acquire a nuclear bomb (scene from Last Best Chance). |
Governments around the world discover clues to the plot, but are unable to uncover the scheme before the weapons are en route to their destinations. The film clearly demonstrates that the hardest job for terrorists is gaining control of a nuclear weapon or material. Because the governments had failed to take sufficient action to secure or destroy the nuclear weapons material, they are helpless to prevent an attack.
The film stars Fred Thompson and features an epilogue moderated by Tom Brokaw. The movie was featured on HBO, and has been ordered online by more than 100,000 concerned citizens. Thousands more have seen the film during screenings and discussions in movie theatres, private homes, college campuses and workplaces.
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"A wake-up call for America and the world. We need an all-out effort to lock up weapons grade nuclear material scattered throughout dozens of countries around the world. If we act now, we can protect the American people and prevent disaster."
- 9/11 Commission Chair Tom Kean and Co-Chair Lee Hamilton on Last Best Chance
"As a docudrama Last Best Chance does exactly what it was created to do...it passes a terrifying and credible message of the stark realities concerning a terrorist attack on the United States using a nuclear device. Public awareness is one of the most powerful tools that can be brought to bear to ensure our government takes the appropriate actions in a timely manner. There is a great deal at stake and time is not on our side."
- General Eugene E. Habiger USAF (Ret.), former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Strategic Command
