This programme recalls the events that led up to one of the most dangerous moments in the entire history of the Cold War: a NATO command post exercise, code named Able Archer 83, which caused the USSR to believe that NATO was planning a genuine nuclear attack.

The smallest of sparks can lead to the largest of explosions. Such is the case of the Atomic Bomb an...
Edward Peden purchased a former US military launch site in the 1980s, and has been living in it ever...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuc...

An archive-based feature documentary viewing the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of...
A widely-acclaimed documentary film from 1982 about the effects of nuclear weapons, directed by Mick...

Dramatization of a devastating nuclear strike against the United States by the Soviet Union, followe...

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fr...

We've all heard of the atomic bomb, but in the late 1950s, an idea was conceived of a bomb which wou...

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the su...

MISSILE follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Ba...

A film demonstrating steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack. Animated drawings show the effe...
A heavily dramatized Civil Defense film that demonstrates how a public fallout shelter is supposed t...
Training film for shelter managers. Food, water, sanitation, medical, and radiation detection system...
This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, sho...

On Deterrence is a documentary that presents a contemporary dialogue involving different viewpoints ...

This film deals straightforwardly with the consequences of a nuclear attack for the Canadian Prairie...

The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenan...

Documentary about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, including an interview with an eyewitness of...

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is...