THE NUCLEAR SAGA
2 x 52'
Peter Batty's acclaimed films piece together
the complete and extraordinary story of the quest for the ultimate weapon - how scientists and politicians in Germany, Britain, USA, and the Soviet Union battled to unleash a terrifying power they did not understand.
The men who created the Nuclear Age were: The 'Father of the Bomb' - Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project boss General Groves, and Edward Teller and
Stanislaw Ulam, the 'makers' of the H-Bomb. Its terrifying implications remain.
BIRTH OF THE BOMB
A compulsive film details the making and testing of the first atomic bombs. It contains rare,
previously classified archive footage obtained from the US military. The programme traces the early experiments in Nazi Germany to the establishment of the 'Manhattan Project' in the USA.
SEARCH FOR THE SUPER
The fascinating background story to the making and testing of the first H-Bomb. The story is traced from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to the eventual successful detonation of
the thermonuclear device in the Pacific in 1952, and the first full-scale Hydrogen Bomb test at Bikini in March 1954.
‘... the best record of the worst weapon...’ - The London Sunday Times
Producer: Peter Batty Productions.
Availability: Worldwide, all media - on request.