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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, first broadcast in 1989, is a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of nuclear competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The series examined the rivalry for power and how it shaped the diplomacy, negotiation, ethical debates, and doctrine of deterrence that ran through the forty-year history of the nuclear age. This collection contains the full interviews and selected stock footage from the series. If you would like to view the full War and Peace in the Nuclear Age episodes you may schedule an appointment at GBH in Boston by contacting the GBH Archives.
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Atomic Weapons Orientation
Atoms For Peace: Geneva, 1958 (Part 1 of 2)
Atoms For Peace: Geneva, 1958 (Part 2 of 2)
Berlin Crisis
Berlin Drama: East Berliners Jump to Freedom
Brezhnev Visit, 1973
Carter Press Conference
Carter Speech at Wake Forest
Carter Speech at Wake Forest (cont.)
Carter's Address to Congress after Vienna Summit
Carter's Address to Congress after Vienna Summit (cont.)
Carter's Georgia Tech Speech
Carter's Speech to Newspaper Publishers Assoc.
China State Visit
Chinese Statement
Combat Ready
The Common Defense (Part 1 of 3)
The Common Defense (Part 2 of 3)
The Common Defense (Part 3 of 3)
Cuban Crisis
Davy Crockett Missile Demo
Defense Orientation Conference Association presents "Leading From Strength" "The US Army"
Defensive Might: President Sees U.S. Sea Power
Deng Xiaoping Arrives at Andrews AFB
Duck and Cover
East Germany Closes Border
Effect of Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
First Matador Firing in the Far East
Fort Bragg Demonstration
Germans Hail Johnson Visit
GLCM Deployment
The Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
Ground Launch Cruise Missiles, 1987
Ground Launched Cruise Missile 1983
Guardians of the High Frontier
The History of ABM (Part 2 of 3)
The History of ABM (Part 3 of 3)
Ike Rallies NATO
JFK Reviews Airpower at Eglin
Jupiter Buildup in Italy
Kennedy Confers With MacMillan
Khrushchev Resigns
Khrushchev Sees Early Summit Talks
Kissinger on Foreign Policy
Lance Missile PreOps
Load-Out and Movement of Personnel During Cuban Blockade Alert
Los Alamos Water Boiler Reactor
MacNamara Visits Germany
Marines En Route to Cuba
Medical Aspect, Hiroshima, Japan, 03/23/1946
Missile Construction V-1 to CIM-10: WWII - 1960
Missile Dismantle
MX: Basing Mode Animation
MX... In Perspective
NATO: The Changed Face of Europe
The Navy's Part in Operation Sandstone (1 of 3)
The Navy's Part in Operation Sandstone (2 of 3)
The Navy's Part in Operation Sandstone (3 of 3)
Nixon Arrives in Russia
Norad Defense Film
Nuclear Power: Two New Subs Are Launched
One Week in October
Operation Alert
Operation Greenhouse
Operation Ivy
Operation Sandstone, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Atomic Bomb Tests (1 of 2)
Operation Sandstone, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Atomic Bomb Tests (2 of 2)
Our Worldwide Air Force 1953-1959
Partners in Freedom (Part 1 of 2)
Partners in Freedom (Part 2 of 2)
Peacekeeper First Launch, 1982
Pentagon Report 1962
Pentagon Report 1962-1963
Pershing II: Position of Strength
Polaris to Poseidon
President Harry S. Truman signs unification bill
President Kennedy Fort Bragg Demonstration
President Nixon Visits Russia, 1972
President Nixon Visits Russia, 1972 (Part 1 of 2)
President Nixon Visits Russia, 1972 (Part 2 of 2)
President Nixon's Arms Control Press Conference
President Richard Nixon Radio Speech: State of the World, 1971
Profile of the Future
Project Swap: Pershing A-1 System
Quarantine Forces (Undersecnav Interest)
Ratification of SALT Agreements
Reds Launch First Space Satellite
Reforger: Inspecting NATO Troops
Reforger IV, 1975
Reforger "76" (101st Airborne Division)
The Road to the Wall
Rollout of First Minuteman Missile from USAF
SAC Command Post
SAC During the Cuban Crisis
Safeguard: Missile Defense System
Sahara A-Blast: France Tests Her First Atomic Bomb
Saigon, Target Zero
Sea Might: New U.S. Sub Joins Fleet
Sea Power: First Lady Names Latest U.S. Sub
Security Through Sea Power
Self Preservation in Atomic Bomb Attack
A Sharper Sword and Stronger Shield
Shield of Freedom
Signing Convention of Bio Weapons (Part 1 of 2)
Signing Convention of Bio Weapons (Part 2 of 2)
Soviet Military Power, 1987 (Part 1 of 2)
Soviet Military Power, 1987 (Part 2 of 2)
Space Setback: New Missile Blows Up
Stay Safe, Stay Strong
Strategic Air Command (SAC), The Global Shield
The Strategic Air Command Story
Strategic Air Command, 1952
Strategy for Peace 1946-1962 (Part 1 of 2)
Strategy for Peace 1946-1962 (Part 2 of 2)
The Strength of Strategic Air Command (SAC)
The Super-Plane of Tomorrow
Target Nevada
Trinity Test
Twelve Nations Sign North Atlantic Pact
United Nations and the Cuban Missile Crisis
United States Marine Corps Operations in Support of Cuban Crisis
U.S. Defies East German Border Guards
US Marines Arrive at Guantanamo Bay
Vienna Summit: Carter Arrives in Vienna for SALT II.
Vienna Summit: Carter, Brezhnev sign Salt II
We'll Live in Peril says Kennedy
The Why of Army Missiles
World Exhibit of Atoms for Peace Opens in Geneva
XB-70A Progress Report No. 16
The Year 1945
Your Defense (Part 1 of 2)
Your Defense (Part 2 of 2)
7th Airborne Command and Control Squadron
8th Infantry Division West Germany
The 20-Year History of the Antiballistic Missile Program (Part 1 of 3)
42d Field Artillery Group