Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

The documentary was not one for someone with a weak stomach or a soft heart. It showed death, pain and the cruelty of war. During the talkback, one audience member said when she was 10 years old her ...

After all, the Cold War spanned almost fifty years, from 1947 to 1991. One of the hidden gems of the era is a BBC “documentary ... pregnancy when the bomb hits, and their subsequent struggles ...

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would ... "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the ...

This documentary uncovers the secrets of Elizabeth Zarubina, a Soviet spy at the heart of the operation to steal the plans. Unfortunately Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb isn't available ...

On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it ...