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Episode Details: Race for the Superbomb

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Race for the Superbomb

Series: American Experience

Season: Season 11

Episode Number: 2

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Duration: 55 min

At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. A world away, on the frozen steppes of Siberia, the Soviet Union began a similar effort. A web of spies and scientists, intrigue and deception marked the race to develop the hydrogen bomb, a weapon that would change the world.

Cast and Guests

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David Ogden Stiers

Narrator (voice)

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