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Episode Detail: Race for the Superbomb - American Experience

The "Race of the Superbomb," in which the U.S. and the USSR competed in the 1950s to see which would be the first to create the hydrogen bomb, "a weapon of virtually unlimited power." Narrated by David Ogden Stiers.

Episodes: Race for the Superbomb - American Experience - 264 total Episodes

11/2/2009: Civilian Conservation Corps
5/18/2009: The Kennedys: American Experience    Season 21, Episode 10
5/11/2009: Wounded Knee    Season 21, Episode 9
5/4/2009: Geronimo    Season 21, Episode 8
4/27/2009: Trail of Tears    Season 21, Episode 7
4/20/2009: Tecumseh's Vision    Season 21, Episode 6
4/13/2009: After the Mayflower    Season 21, Episode 5
2/23/2009: A Class Apart    Season 21, Episode 4
2/9/2009: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln    Season 21, Episode 3
2/2/2009: The Polio Crusade    Season 21, Episode 2
1/26/2009: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer    Season 21, Episode 1
5/6/2008: George H. W. Bush    Season 20, Episode 10
5/5/2008: George H.W. Bush    Season 20, Episode 9
4/21/2008: Roberto Clemente    Season 20, Episode 8
4/14/2008: Walt Whitman    Season 20, Episode 7
3/31/2008: Minik, the Lost Eskimo    Season 20, Episode 6
2/25/2008: Buffalo Bill    Season 20, Episode 5
2/18/2008: Kit Carson    Season 20, Episode 4
2/4/2008: Grand Central    Season 20, Episode 3
1/14/2008: Oswald's Ghost    Season 20, Episode 1
5/14/2007: Alexander Hamilton    Season 19, Episode 13
4/23/2007: Summer of Love    Season 19, Episode 12
4/9/2007: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple    Season 19, Episode 11
4/2/2007: Sister Aimee    Season 19, Episode 10
2/12/2007: New Orleans    Season 19, Episode 9
2/5/2007: The Living Weapon    Season 19, Episode 8
1/29/2007: The Berlin Airlift    Season 19, Episode 7
11/6/2006: The Gold Rush    Season 19, Episode 6
10/30/2006: The Great Fever    Season 19, Episode 5
10/23/2006: Test Tube Babies    Season 19, Episode 4
10/16/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964; Bridge to Freedom 1965    Season 19, Episode 3
10/9/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961; No Easy Walk 1961-1963    Season 19, Episode 2
10/2/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings 1954-1956; Fighting Back 1957-1962    Season 19, Episode 1
10/2/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings
5/22/2006: The Man Behind Hitler    Season 18, Episode 13
5/8/2006: Annie Oakley    Season 18, Episode 12
4/24/2006: The Alaska Pipeline    Season 18, Episode 11
4/10/2006: The Boy in the Bubble    Season 18, Episode 10
3/27/2006: Eugene O'Neill    Season 18, Episode 9
2/27/2006: Hijacked!    Season 18, Episode 8
2/6/2006: Jesse James    Season 18, Episode 7
1/30/2006: The Nuremberg Trials    Season 18, Episode 6
1/23/2006: John & Abigail Adams    Season 18, Episode 5
11/16/2005: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History    Season 18, Episode 4
11/14/2005: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History    Season 18, Episode 3
10/31/2005: Race to the Moon    Season 18, Episode 2
10/17/2005: Two Days in October    Season 18, Episode 1
5/23/2005: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst    Season 17, Episode 12
5/9/2005: The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken    Season 17, Episode 11
5/2/2005: Victory in the Pacific    Season 17, Episode 10
4/25/2005: The Fall of Saigon    Season 17, Episode 9
4/18/2005: The Massie Affair    Season 17, Episode 8
4/11/2005: The Great Transatlantic Cable    Season 17, Episode 7
4/4/2005: Mary Pickford    Season 17, Episode 6
2/14/2005: Kinsey    Season 17, Episode 5
2/7/2005: Building the Alaska Highway    Season 17, Episode 4
1/31/2005: Fidel Castro    Season 17, Episode 3
10/18/2004: The Fight    Season 17, Episode 2
10/4/2004: RFK    Season 17, Episode 1
5/3/2004: Golden Gate Bridge    Season 16, Episode 9
4/19/2004: Patriots Day    Season 16, Episode 8
4/12/2004: Emma Goldman    Season 16, Episode 7
2/9/2004: Tupperware    Season 16, Episode 6
2/2/2004: Remember the Alamo    Season 16, Episode 5
1/19/2004: Citizen King    Season 16, Episode 4
1/13/2004: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War    Season 16, Episode 3
1/12/2004: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War    Season 16, Episode 2
9/8/2003: The Center of the World    Season 16, Episode 1
7/14/2003: Murder at Harvard    Season 15, Episode 13
7/7/2003: Bataan Rescue    Season 15, Episode 12
4/21/2003: Seabiscuit    Season 15, Episode 11
4/7/2003: Daughter from Danang    Season 15, Episode 10
2/24/2003: The Pill    Season 15, Episode 9
2/10/2003: Partners of the Heart    Season 15, Episode 8
1/27/2003: Transcontinental Railroad    Season 15, Episode 7
1/20/2003: The Murder of Emmett Till    Season 15, Episode 6
1/15/2003: Chicago: City of the Century---The Battle for Chicago    Season 15, Episode 5
1/14/2003: Chicago: City of the Century---The Revolution Has Begun    Season 15, Episode 4
1/13/2003: Chicago: City of the Century---Mud Hole to Metropolis    Season 15, Episode 3
11/12/2002: Jimmy Carter: Hostage    Season 15, Episode 2
11/11/2002: Jimmy Carter: Jimmy Who?    Season 15, Episode 1
11/11/2002: Jimmy Carter
5/12/2002: Ulysses S. Grant    Season 14, Episode 12
5/5/2002: Ulysses S. Grant    Season 14, Episode 11
4/28/2002: A Brilliant Madness    Season 14, Episode 10
4/21/2002: Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film    Season 14, Episode 9
2/24/2002: Public Enemy # 1    Season 14, Episode 8
2/17/2002: Monkey Trial    Season 14, Episode 7
2/10/2002: Zoot Suit Riots    Season 14, Episode 6
1/27/2002: Miss America    Season 14, Episode 5
1/20/2002: Mount Rushmore    Season 14, Episode 4
1/13/2002: Woodrow Wilson    Season 14, Episode 3
1/6/2002: Woodrow Wilson    Season 14, Episode 2
11/11/2001: War Letters    Season 14, Episode 1
8/5/2001: Streamliners: America's Lost Trains
4/23/2001: Stephen Foster
4/16/2001: Fatal Flood
4/2/2001: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
2/21/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/20/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/19/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/13/2001: Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
11/14/2000: Return with Honor
10/30/2000: Secrets of a Master Builder
10/24/2000: The Rockefellers
10/17/2000: The Rockefellers
5/23/2000: The Wizard of Photography
5/9/2000: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
5/2/2000: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
4/25/2000: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
4/24/2000: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
2/28/2000: John Brown's Holy War
2/15/2000: The Duel
2/1/2000: Nixon's China Game
1/25/2000: Houdini
1/10/2000: Eleanor Roosevelt
5/24/1999: Fly Girls
4/5/1999: Lost in the Grand Canyon
2/22/1999: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
1/18/1999: Hoover Dam
2/23/1998: Reagan
10/6/1997: Truman
10/5/1997: Truman
10/28/1996: Amelia Earhart
10/16/1995: Murder of the Century
10/12/1994: FDR: The Grandest Job in the World/The Juggler
10/11/1994: FDR: The Center of the World/Fear Itself
5/25/1994: D-Day
1/26/1994: Malcolm X: Make It Plain
10/15/1993: Nixon
10/28/1992: The Donner Party
11/12/1990: The Crash of 1929
10/1/1990: Lindbergh
Battle for Wilderness
Mr. Sears Catalogue
Radio Bikini
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
Los Mineros
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
French Dance Tonight
The Kennedys
The Kennedys
The Kennedys
Sit Down and Fight Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers' Union
Edison's Miracle of Light
FDR
Vietnam: A Television History (Roots of War/America's Mandarin)
Vietnam: A Television History (End of the Tunnel)
MacArthur: The Politics of War
Views of the Vanishing Frontier
The Battle of the Bulge
The Wright Stuff
The World That Moses Built
Last Stand at Little Big Horn
Race for the Superbomb
Alone on the Ice
Gold Fever
Ballad of the Mountain Man
Forever Baseball
The Great Air Race of 1924
Barnum's Big Top
Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
The Way West
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Vietnam: A Television History (LBJ Goes to War)
Around the World in 72 Days
New York Underground
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Revisited
Roots of Resistance: Story of the Underground Railroad
Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice
That Rhythm, Those Blues
Eric Sevareid: Not So Wild a Dream
Johnstown Flood
Wild by Law
After the Crash
Chicago 1968
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
Vietnam: A Television History (America's Enemy)
Vietnam: A Television History (America Takes Charge)
LBJ
Radio Priest
American Experience
Vietnam: A Television History (TET)
Reagan
Vietnam: A Television History (Homefront USA)
Family Gathering
God Bless America and Poland Too
The Telephone
A Midwife's Tale
The Kennedys
Liberators Fighting on Two Fronts in WWII
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Love in the Cold War
MacArthur: Destiny
Satellite Sky
Midnight Ramble
Yosemite: Fate of Heaven
Simple Justice
G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
Eudora Welty, One Writers Beginnings
Telegrams from the Dead
Truman
If You Knew Sousa
America and the Holocaust---Deceit and Indifference
The Way West: Ghost Dance
Daley, the Last Boss
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Guts and Glory
Hearts and Hands
Rescue at Sea
Demon Rum
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis up Close
Orphans of the Storm
In the White Man's Image
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Spy in the Sky
Truman: The Moon, the Stars and the Planets
Riding the Rails
Reagan
Big Dream, Small Screen
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
Hurricane of '38
Mr. Miami Beach
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Scandalous Mayor
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
The Hunt for Pancho Villa
The Way West
Vietnam: A Television History (Cambodia and Laos)
Vietnam: A Television History (Peace Is at Hand)
One Woman, One Vote
Vietnam: A Television History (Vietnamizing the War)
Influenza 1918
The Orphan Trains
Coney Island
Truman: Accident of Democracy
Eisenhower
Journey to America
Great War of 1918
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Pearl Harbor
The Quiz Show Scandal
LBJ
The Iron Road
Insanity on Trial
Goin' Back to T'Town
The Way West: Approach of Civilization
Hawaii's Last Queen
America 1900
American Experience
Forbidden City, USA
Adam Clayton Powell
LBJ
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
The Way West: Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
The Way West: The War for the Black Hills
American Experience
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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