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A Is for Atom

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The story of the rise and fall of nuclear power. How scientists and politicians came to believe they could create a different world, with a limitless source of energy.

This is the story of the rise and fall of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians believed they could create a different world with this limitless source of energy. But as early as 1964 senior nuclear scientists and engineers in America and the Soviet Union knew they were building potentially dangerous plants. Then came Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. In frank interviews the scientists explain why they lost control. And the film also tells the dramatic stories behind the two great nuclear disasters, drawing evidence from the secret tapes of those in charge.

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Thu 16 Jul 1992 21:30

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Producer Adam Curtis
Executive Producer Edward Mirzoeff

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