Hot Potatoes - An Atomic Tale is a documentary film told from the personal perspective of Jerry Sears, a U.S Navy veteran, also known as Atomic Vets.
In 1958 Jerry was on picket duty, securing the parameter area of the atomic bomb test series in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. By his 18th birthday, Jerry had witnessed, at close range, over 20 atomic bomb tests. Jerry worked in the kitchens and his job was to peel the potatoes for the three meals a day.
On discovering that the potatoes were radiated from the bomb tests, he was ordered to not waste a single potato
and to put them out in the food hall.
Some 60 years after the bomb tests, Jerry finally tells his atomic tale on camera, describing the effects perpetrated on the peoples and lands of the Marshall Islands as well as the United States servicemen who were on duty.
