The End of Innocence

Description

This episode focuses on a more detailed investigation of Russia's nuclear coming of age. It traces the atom bomb back to its infancy, to a time when state-sponsored Russian physicists were sent to Cambridge to learn about this obscure new technology. Despite knowledge gleaned from this research, the Bolshevik government was slow to catch onto the strategic importance of atomic energy, continually dismissing it in favor of good old traditional weapons. As time passed, however, the government came to see the importance of the atom. While the U.S. poured the equivalent of 20 to 30 billion rubles into creating its bomb, the USSR achieved the same result at much less expense, largely thanks to its intelligence network that spanned the world's research hotspots.

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51 min

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Date of Publication

[2012], c2012

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Films on Demand

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