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Watch Online / The Hydrogen Bomb: The Ultimate Weapon of Destruction! (TV Movie 1975)
Desc: The Hydrogen Bomb: The Ultimate Weapon of Destruction!: Directed by Peter Batty. With Bernard Archard, Edward Teller. This historical documentary presents the background story to the making and testing of the first H-bomb. It contains rare archival film as well as notable contributions from many of the principal participants in the hydrogen bomb saga. The story is traced onwards from the first atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, through the Russian nuclear blast of September 1949 to the eventual successful detonation of a so-called thermo-nuclear device in the Pacific in November 1952 and the first full-scale H-bomb test in Bikini, in 1954.