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National Geographic Channel

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  • WORLD'S BIGGEST BOMB

  • Tuesday 25 June at 10:00PM
  • National Geographic Channel

ABOUT THE SHOW

It was the ultimate display of mankind's destructive power - an earth-shattering explosion 2,500 times more powerful than the deadly bomb that annihilated Hiroshima and helped bring an end to the Second World War.

Discover how one of the world's superpowers created and denoted an earth shattering explosion that shook this planet in the World's Biggest Bomb.

World's Biggest Bomb combines first-hand testimony with in-depth forensic analysis and once classified rare footage of the 1954 USA Bikini Atoll explosion, to reveal 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.

As both superpowers took ever-greater risks to get ahead, scientific know-how was stretched to its limits, leaving no one in control of the shocking devastation about to rock the planet.

When the Soviets ...

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