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An exploration of the building and testing of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project. Includes dramatisations, a 3-D virtual environment,...
The events surrounding President Harry S Truman’s decision in August 1945 to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a decision for which he accepted full responsibility and which stirred enduring controversy.
A history of 20th century in 26 parts as seen from the point of view of ordinary people who have lived through the events. Includes interviews and extensive archive footage. 13 (producer: Jennifer Clayton):...
Two films by Peter Batty that piece together the story of the quest for an ultimate weapon, looking at how scientists and politicians in Germany, the UK, the USA and the Soviet Union battled to unleash a...
Looks at the people who worked on the Manhattan Project, developing the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, between 1943-1945: Bob Wilson, Bob Serber, Bon Christy, Harold Agnew, Hans Bethe, Stan...
On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...
A documentary study of weapons developed by scientists and engineeers during World War 2. Using archival footage, looks at radar, Hobart’s funnies, the ‘bouncing bomb’, the V1 and V2 missiles, the...
Examines the process involved in dismantling bombs. It is easy to dismantle bomb cases, but the plutonium pits cannot be simply destroyed. Shows PANTEX in Texas where bombs are dismantled and plutonium pits...
In 1939, as Europe perpared for war, the Nazis led the world in the race for the atomic bomb. Yet six years later it was the Americans who dropped the first nuclear bomb. Did scientific errors rob Hitler of...
Updated version of THE PEACE GAME. Puts forward official arguments for the retention of Britain’s nuclear weapons as a deterrent.*
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