American Experience

Race for the Superbomb

E2    Jan 11, 1999    55m    TV-PG
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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.
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Cast of Race for the Superbomb
  • David Ogden StiersNarrator (voice)
  • Hans BetheSelf
  • Peter HayduRussian voices (voice)
  • Curtis LeMaySelf (archive footage)
  • Curtis LeMaySelf
  • Edward TellerSelf
  • Richard RhodesSelf

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