| Time Bombs | |
| Director: | Guylaine Maroist Éric Ruel[1] |
| Producer: | Guylaine Maroist Éric Ruel |
| Narrator: | Vlasta Vrána Réal Bossé |
| Cinematography: | Steeve Desrosiers Douglas Munro Jean-François Perreault |
| Editing: | Éric Ruel |
| Studio: | Productions de la ruelle inc. |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Time Bombs is a 2008 Canadian film directed by Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel. It was produced by "Productions de la ruelle".
In the spring of 1957, 40 young Canadian soldiers were sent to Nevada on a top secret mission. These young men did not know they would be used as guinea pigs in the most important nuclear testing program of the Cold War. The American military wanted to know how the average soldier would hold up on a nuclear battlefield.
With absolutely no knowledge of the effects of radiation, the young men played war games, sometimes less than away from exploding nuclear weapons — bombs as much as four times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The effects were devastating. Many of the men fell gravely ill, and some of their children were born with deformities or handicaps.
The controversial operation has never received official recognition from the Canadian government. 50 years after the tests, Time Bombs follows the Atomic Veterans in their quest for recognition from the government.