Engineering Britain's Superweapons

Series & Episodes

  • Blue Streak Engineers beside Blue streak rocket

    First broadcast: Wednesday 05 August 2009, 10PM on More4

    While having access to nuclear bombs provides an immense advantage - they are still limited by the method of delivery - which for Britain in the early 1950s was the V-bomber.

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  • H-Bomb Mushroom cloud

    First broadcast: Wednesday 29 July 2009, 10PM on More4

    The dropping of nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 changed the world forever - any nation that failed to harness the power of the atomic bomb suddenly seemed extremely vulnerable.

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  • V-Bombers Vulcan in flight

    First broadcast: Wednesday 22 July 2009, 10PM on More4

    The threat of a nuclear war in the late 1940s and 50s prompted a leap in the capability of aircraft and defence systems.

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