Summaries

The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?

Hiroshima. August 6, 1945: the atomic bomb explodes. More of 70,000 dead and much more wounded. In that day, mankind discovers the power of nuclear weapons, and it discovers the fear too. When a few years later the H-Bomb explodes in the Pacific ocean the fear and panic grow up of alarming way and during 50 years, during all the Cold War, sometimes the mankind almost disappears in a nuclear apocalypse. In this travel across the time some military and war experts explain as the human race was very near of the total extinction by a nuclear holocaust. A danger what still exists today...—Chockys

Details

Keywords
  • tense
  • political superpower
  • soviet nuclear forces
  • u.s. nuclear forces
  • wmd
Genres
  • War
  • Documentary
Release date Jan 2, 1997
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Production companies Discovery Channel The Learning Channel (TLC) Towers Productions

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Tech specs

Runtime 2h
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Dolby
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