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The Sony Award-winning investigative history series continues as Mike Thomson unearths another document that sheds new light on past events.
2: Britain's Brilliant Bluff. In 1954 Winston Churchill demanded that Britain join the club of nations that possessed the devastating hydrogen bomb. A scientific and political scramble for solutions and results followed but by the summer of 1957 Britain was demonstrating its new H-bomb to the world's press off Christmas Island in the Pacific. Yet now a trail of documents and eye witness accounts gives the lie to public statements made at the time and discovers that Britain's new international status symbol was not all it Seemed. Producer Philip Sellars

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