People's Century - Season 1 Episode 11 1945: Fallout
Nuclear weapons make the world more dangerous than ever before. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by atom bombs is hailed for ending the Second World War, but the long-term effects of radiation are discovered years later. To ensure parity with the US, Stalin puts his scientists to work and four years later the Soviet Union explodes its first nuclear bomb, starting an arms race between the superpowers in which peace is maintained through the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. Governments take steps to protect its citizens through civil defence. Popular movements calling for nuclear disarmament appear in force from the late 1950s, and the expensive arms race is eventually stopped in the 1980s. Nuclear power supports economic growth and technological advances, but the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, as well as the impact of nuclear testing in Utah and Bikini Atoll, keep the public at large distrustful of nuclear science. The opening scene shows the preparation and execution of the world's first nuclear test in New Mexico, United States.
Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Studio: BBC One
Director: Zvi Dor-Ner, David Espar, Peter Pagnamenta
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First Air Date: Sep 13, 1995
Last Air date: Oct 08, 1995
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 26 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 2.097
Language: English
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Season
Season 1
Episode
1900: Age of Hope
1914: Killing Fields
1917: Red Flag
1919: Lost Peace
1926: On the Line
1927: Great Escape
1929: Breadline
1930: Sporting Fever
1933: Master Race
1939: Total War
1945: Fallout
1945: Brave New World
1947: Freedom Now
1948: Boomtime
1951: Asia Rising
1954: Living Longer
1957: Skin Deep
1959: Endangered Planet
1963: Picture Power
1949: Great Leap
1968: New Release
1970: Half the People
1973: War of the Flea
1979: God Fights Back
1989: People Power
1997: Fast Forward
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