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Discusses the history and development of nuclear weapons, which continue to be considered the greatest threat to humankind in the twenty-first century, covering the arms race, technology, politics, the Cold War, the National Missile Defense, and the role of the weapons in the context of international terrorism.
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Sai Thein Win, deputy commander of a secret military factory, leaked thousands of confidential files to the expatriate media group Democratic Voice of Burma before defecting from the Burmese army. Details of the project he'd worked on strongly suggest that Burma plans to develop nuclear capability. This documentary, produced by the DVB, presents the evidence that Win gathered. Long-time Burma analyst Bertil Lintner, along with Bob Kelly (a former...
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "Tank" in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command in Omaha to bring us the untold stories--based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents--of how America's presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the...