American Experience
Season 11 Episode 2 - Race for the Superbomb
6.6 ?
1988
Documentary
At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. A world away, on the frozen steppes of Siberia, the Soviet Union began a similar effort. A web of spies and scientists, intrigue and deception marked the race to develop the hydrogen bomb, a weapon that would change the world.
Episodes in Season 11
1
America 1900
55 min
2
Race for the Superbomb
55 min
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3
Hoover Dam
55 min
4
Alone on the Ice
55 min
5
Rescue at Sea
55 min
6
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
55 min
7
Lost in the Grand Canyon
55 min
8
MacArthur (1): Destiny
55 min
9
MacArthur (2): The Politics of War
55 min
10
Fly Girls
55 min
