Behind The Curtain Of A Nuclear Weapons Base During The Height Of The Cold War | Our History

International journalist John Pilger looks at the threat of nuclear war in this documentary filmed in America.

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Pilger visited the Strategic Arms Command Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, which controls a network of missile bases throughout America, and also one of the missile bases at Grand Forks, North Dakota. He also speaks to the pilot of one of the B52 bombers equipped to carry four nuclear bombs. The enormous US defence budget for nuclear weapons may be seen by some as the ultimate deterrent, but Pilger worries about the possibility of an accidental detonation

This film was first broadcast: 16 Jan 1975

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