Episodes

1. Dawn

2. The Weapon Of Choice

3. A Bigger Bang For The Buck

4. Europe Goes Nuclear

5. At The Brink

6. The Education Of Robert McNamara

7. One Step Forward

8. The Haves And The Have Nots

9. Carter's New World

10. Zero Hour

11. Missle Experimental

12. Reagan's Shield

13. Visions Of War & Peace

Overview

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, first broadcast in 1989, is a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of nuclear competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The series examined the rivalry for power and how it shaped the diplomacy, negotiation, ethical debates, and doctrine of deterrence that ran through the forty-year history of the nuclear age. This collection contains the full interviews and selected stock footage from the series.

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