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Mutually Assured Destruction

Season 1 | 5m 11s

The Titan Missile facility in Arizona, operational from 1963 to 1982, was built to house the largest and most powerful nuclear missile weapons system ever deployed by the U.S. At the height of the Cold War the U.S. and Soviet Union threatened each other with these weapons. Dr. Derek Muller visits the Titan Missile Museum and meets with guide Chuck Penson to simulate launching a missile.

Extras
See how uranium has shaped the past and will change the future.
Learn how one of Earth's most controversial elements has revolutionized society.
Follow Dr. Derek Muller as he explores the controversial element — uranium.
Learn about the power of uranium to spontaneously change its atomic structure.
Unlock the mysteries of uranium, one of the Earth’s most controversial elements.
Watch the untold story of the most wondrous and terrifying rock on Earth.
Uranium was forged in the explosion of a star some six billion years ago.
Dr. Derek Muller visits a radon spa in the Czech Republic to take a radioactive bath.
Travel into the radioactive basement of Pripyat Hospital in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
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See how uranium has shaped the past and will change the future.
Follow Dr. Derek Muller as he explores the controversial element — uranium.