On the Brink: Doomsday

Hiroshima. August 6, 1945: the atomic bomb explodes. More than 70,000 dead and many more are wounded. That day, mankind discovers the power of nuclear weapons and it discovers the fear that comes with it too. A few years later the H-Bomb explodes in the Pacific Ocean. The fear and paranoia grow in an alarming way and in the next 50 years, during the Cold War, humanity almost disappears in accidental nuclear apocalypse. In this travel across time military and war experts explain how the human race was very near total extinction by a nuclear holocaust. A danger what still exists today.