Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire (2022x2)

Air date: Feb 14, 2022

In the 1960s, America was running "Operation Plowshare": the idea that perhaps nuclear bombs could be used for peace, not war. At least some British scientists had similar ambitions, and it involved setting off a nuclear bomb under Wheeldale, in the North York Moors National Park.