In the Name of Peace

Description

By the time the Stalinist regime gave way to the era of Khrushchev, Russia and its rival the U.S. were almost neck and neck in military prowess. One war may have been over, but, as this documentary unveils, another, the Cold War, was just beginning. As rivalry deepened into outright hostility, can the quest to produce the ultimate atomic weapon ever be associated with the phrase "in the name of peace"? In fact, both countries became stocked with atomic weaponry, including bombs, intercontinental missiles, and submarines able to cruise the oceans in secrecy with a devastating array of atomic missiles. As this episode shows, either nation had enough nuclear strength at its disposal to threaten the other's survival.

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51 min

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Date of Publication

[2012], c2012

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