Last in the series that uses archive material to explore the cultural impact of 20th-century science. A Is for Atom
The story of the rise and fall of nuclear power. Forty years ago, scientists and politicians came to believe they could create a different world, with a limitless source of energy.
From this grew extraordinary dreams for nuclear cars, rockets, planes - even the atomic peanut. But with these dreams came political and commercial pressures. Then came Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Pandora's Box tells the dramatic stories behind the disasters. Why did a technology with the potential to change the world go so disastrously astray? Producer Adam Curtis
Executive producer Edward Mirzoeff