Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Discover the complete history of nuclear weapons technology from 1945 to the 2020s in Episode 4 of A Lens On: Snapshot.

We start with the devastating fission bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, before entering the terrifying thermonuclear age of hydrogen fusion.
We'll explore the radioactive fallout of the 1950s arms race, the bizarre and dangerous creation of battlefield ""tactical"" nukes like the Davy Crockett mortar in the 1970s, and finally, the modern 2020s threat: hypersonic missiles traveling at 6,000 km/h that can wipe out an aircraft carrier in seconds.

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