Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries

The World’s Biggest Bomb: Revealed (2011x12)

: 27, 2011

Big Ivan, as it was named, was 4,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Fifty years on, this film tells the true story behind the Cold War race for nuclear supremacy. Billions of dollars and roubles were spent, Pacific islands were vaporised and civilians were unwittingly exposed to huge doses of radiation.