A series of six programmes 3: Terror Weapons
Incensed by allied air attacks on German cities, Hitler orders the development of new terror weapons to be used against Britain. Agents' reports suggest that this is being done at Peenemtinde, hundreds of miles deep into enemy territory. A bombing raid might suffer heavy losses over such a distance and in any case the scientists are still not convinced by the evidence.
Then two captured German generals talk carelessly in a bugged room and British scientific intelligence is listening. But it could all be an elaborate hoax.
Late one summer evening the War Cabinet meets deep underground in Whitehall. On the basis of the scientific evidence they have to decide whether Bomber Command should take the risk.
Narrator WILLIAM WOOLLARD
Film editors KEITH WILTON , ROLAND TONGUE Written and produced by JOHN GROOM