Race for the Superbomb

Overview

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.

Guest Stars

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

Hans Bethe

Self

Peter Haydu

Russian voices (voice)

Curtis LeMay

Self (archive footage)

Curtis LeMay

Self

Edward Teller

Self

Richard Rhodes

Self