Engineering Britain’s Superweapons – 02 – H-Bomb (2009)
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- /// Runtime: 50 Minutes
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The dropping of nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 changed the world forever – any nation that failed to harness the power of the atomic bomb suddenly seemed extremely vulnerable.
The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction – or ‘MAD’ – dictates that if two warring nations have access to nuclear weapons, then it would be folly for either side to use them – as the inevitable retaliation to a nuclear strike is, of course, a nuclear strike.
So it was that Britain needed to become a nuclear power, and the Hydrogen Bomb – or H-bomb – provided the ultimate destructive force.
