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Title:

Race for the superbomb / [51 Pegasi Pictures, Inc. for The American experience], WGBH Boston ; produced, written and directed by Thomas Ott.

Publisher:

PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

1 videocassette (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Teller, Edward,--1908-2003.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert,--1904-1967.
Fermi, Enrico,--1901-1954.
LeMay, Curtis E.
Hydrogen bomb--History.
Cold War--History.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Ott, Thomas. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2005010601
Stiers, David Ogden. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98084726
McCullough, David G. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007726
Rhodes, Richard. Dark sun.
51 Pegasi Pictures Inc.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089989
PBS Home Video. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94021892

Other Titles:

American experience (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91081282

Notes:

Series host, David McCullough ; narrator, David Ogden Stiers. Based in part on the book Dark sun, by Richard Rhodes. Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program, The American experience. Letterboxed.

Summary:

Featuring newly discovered archival sources from Russia, civil defense films, and recently declassified military footage, this Cold War epic documents the struggle to create the hydrogen bomb, a weapon that could save the world from a devastating war -- or doom it to annihilation.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45969814

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)