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Do you remember the pre- 9/11 BBC which used to make public service programmes? Around this time that all ended with Allan Francovich Timewatch Gladio series and Tim Tate’s ‘Conspiracy of Silence’? Since then hours of flicking screens … but silence indeed. In December 1938, in Berlin, a simple chemical experiment showed for the first time that the atom can be split, releasing immense power. Within months, the Wehrmacht had started research into nuclear weapons. The Germns were the first to start work on the atom bomb. The programme investigates the reasons why Hitler was not the first leader to use it, drawing on new evidence gathered by historian Mark Walker. Dramatised scenes, eyewitness accounts from Allied and German scientists, interviews and archive footage are all employed.