Nuclear Secrets

TV Show

Series of drama-documentaries exploring the turning points in the race for nuclear supremacy, from the development of the atomic bomb to the present-day market in nuclear secrets across the world. The story is told through the eyes of the men who risked their lives to pass on their secrets

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Latest Episodes

  • Season 1 Episode 5: The Terror Trader

    The story of Dr AQ Khan, a scientist who copied secret blueprints from his Dutch employers in a bid to make his native Pakistan a nuclear force, and became a national hero following the testing of his bomb design in 1998. However, the CIA and MI6 discovered the terrifying extent of his plans, and he was put under house arrest by President Pervez Musharraf in 2004, where he still remains. Last in series

  • Season 1 Episode 4: Vanunu and the Bomb

    Israeli nuclear technician Mordecai Vanunu's attempt to expose a top-secret Western-built bomb factory in the middle of the desert, which was owned by his own government. After revealing what he knew to the Sunday Times in September 1986, he was offered protection - which failed when he was kidnapped by Mossad operatives and charged with treason

  • Season 1 Episode 3: Superbomb

    Sean Pertwee narrates as the docu-drama series tells the story of the heavy price paid by one man in his efforts to stop the escalating arms race in the face of Cold War efforts to build the 'superbomb' - an atomic device so powerful it could push the world to the edge of destruction. Joe Jones and Shannon Whirry appear as the Oppenheimers

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