Title As It Happened: World's Biggest Bomb / Director: Webb, Andy

Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 49 sec.) ; 315951839 bytes Summary It was the ultimate display of mankind's destructive power - an earth-shattering explosion 2,500 times more powerful than the bomb that annihilated Hiroshima. Using a combination of first-hand testimony and rare footage of the 1954 US Bikini Atoll explosion, the program reveals how Cold War rivalry inspired an unprecedented acceleration in ammunitions technology, as US and Soviet bomb makers competed with each other to build the ultimate weapon. In October 1961, the Soviets tested the Tsar Bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. (From the UK) (Documentary) PG CC Event Broadcast 2012-06-01 at 21:35:00 Notes Classification: PG Subject Atomic bomb -- Blast effect. Atomic bomb -- Design and construction. Atomic bomb -- Testing. Detonation waves. Hydrogen bomb -- Design and construction. United States. USSR. Micronesia -- Bikini Atoll. Form Streaming video Author Webb, Andy, director Webb, Andy, cast Agnew, Harold, contributor Altshuler, Boris, contributor Halderman, John R, contributor Juda, Tomaki, contributor Kalinowski, Martin, contributor Kelen, Alson, contributor Kojevnikov, Alexei, contributor Oishi, Matashichi, contributor Rhodes, Richard, contributor

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