I had no idea it was still prevalent issue until I saw the movie.
Exactly. It’s not in anyone’s real consciousness. If you’re in college today you were born after the Berlin Wall came down, and if you’re my age there was this period of “duck and cover”. The bomb drops on your local city, you’re supposed to duck under a desk and prevent something from falling on you. In a nuclear explosion, that’s absurd. And all of that feels like ancient history to most people these days. It’s such an urgent issue and it has the potential for huge consequences. So we made this movie as a wake up call.

The message of the film is the need to completely abolish nuclear weapons, but is that actually possible?
We believe that the only way to get rid of the nuclear threat — which is nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and even the accidental use of nuclear weapons — is to secure all the materials that make bombs explode, and then to get rid of all the nuclear weapons, which equals “global zero”. The Cold War days are over. We still have the stockpiles, but the big threat is a terrorist either buying, stealing, or making them.

Which blew me away – the film talks about common thieves stealing enriched uranium out of a poorly-secured military shed in Russia, and trying to sell it on the black market. And the guys get caught, basically by accident.
It’s terrifying.