Learning on ScreenComing in from the Cold
- Synopsis
- The new arms control treaties use science to oversee the end of the Cold War and to check on cheating. Looks at methods of verifing stocks - methods such as fingerprinting a tank and using satellites detection - and at the new industry growing up around the verification - technological checking by each side of the other to ensure that each abides by any treaty. But both sides have already failed to agree on the crucial issue of aerial inspection, ahd too much technology could threaten an arms agreement.
- Series
- Horizon, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
- Year of production
- 1991
- Availability
- Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Notes
- Reviewed by Daniel Clery in ‘New Scientist’, 26 Jan 91, p61.
- Subjects
- Law; Technology
- Keywords
- arms control; international law
Credits
- Director
- Peter Ceresole
- Producer
- Peter Ceresole
- Contributor
- Jana Bennett
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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