
A series of spy thrillers exploring the key turning-points in the race for nuclear supremacy. From the development of the A-bomb, via the Cuban missile crisis, to the spread of nuclear weapons to the Middle East and beyond, each story is told through the eyes of the men who risked everything to proliferate their nuclear secrets and those who tried to stop them. Nuclear weapons and the actions of these men have transformed the face of war - and now the world could pay the price.
Air Date: 2007-01-15
Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkovsky was one of the highest-ranking Soviet officials ever to spy for the West, and he risked...
Air Date: 2007-01-22
One man's mission started the Cold War. Superspy unearths how Klaus Fuchs stole the secrets of the Hiroshima bomb and...
Air Date: 2007-01-29
Two superpowers, one goal – the race for nuclear supremacy follows the Soviet Union and USA as they struggle to contr...
Air Date: 2007-02-09
Mordechai Va'anunu was the man who was determined to tell the world about Israel's nuclear capabilities and, by doing...
Air Date: 2007-02-16
Could the father of the Pakistani bomb be the creator of the largest nuclear-smuggling ring ever known? This story re...