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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,872 --> 00:00:08,433 NARRATOR: Under the direct orders of Stalin, 2 00:00:08,509 --> 00:00:10,704 Igor Kurchatov, a brilliant physicist, 3 00:00:10,777 --> 00:00:12,244 known as "The Beard," 4 00:00:12,312 --> 00:00:16,248 let the Soviet A-bomb team. 5 00:00:16,316 --> 00:00:19,012 They were determined to end the atomic monopoly 6 00:00:19,086 --> 00:00:22,021 America had held since the war. 7 00:00:22,089 --> 00:00:24,887 On the 29th of August 1949, 8 00:00:24,958 --> 00:00:28,291 they succeeded. 9 00:00:37,037 --> 00:00:39,335 [speaking Russian ] 10 00:00:39,406 --> 00:00:41,397 INTERPRETER: The shock wave approached 11 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:43,306 and knocked on the roof of the bunker -- 12 00:00:43,377 --> 00:00:47,245 one, two -- 13 00:00:47,314 --> 00:00:50,681 as if a genie, freed by us from the bottle, 14 00:00:50,751 --> 00:00:52,241 patted us and thanked us 15 00:00:52,319 --> 00:00:57,052 for releasing him from his long captivity. 16 00:00:57,124 --> 00:01:00,355 BRANAGH: The Nuclear Arms race had begun. 17 00:01:00,427 --> 00:01:07,060 D ♪ 18 00:01:41,168 --> 00:01:45,468 America readies itself for a nuclear attack. 19 00:01:45,539 --> 00:01:48,372 NARRATOR: Times Square is its normal busy self 20 00:01:48,442 --> 00:01:50,273 in the last seconds before a daylight 21 00:01:50,344 --> 00:01:51,777 Atomic Bomb drill. 22 00:01:51,845 --> 00:01:54,336 [air raid siren] 23 00:01:54,414 --> 00:01:56,905 The sirerfs wail sends New York's inhabitants 24 00:01:56,984 --> 00:01:58,884 to shelter. 25 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:01,250 All buses, taxis, and autos discharge their passengers 26 00:02:01,321 --> 00:02:03,721 who are guided by wardens to shelters. 27 00:02:03,790 --> 00:02:07,954 Movement is rapid but orderly. 28 00:02:08,028 --> 00:02:11,259 Housewives draw shades and turn off gas 29 00:02:11,331 --> 00:02:12,764 before proceeding to shelter zones 30 00:02:12,833 --> 00:02:14,960 in their own buildings. 31 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:18,335 New York's subways provide 32 00:02:18,405 --> 00:02:21,238 most of the public shelters. 33 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:23,242 Times Square is deserted 34 00:02:23,310 --> 00:02:26,609 two minutes after the alert. 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,706 BRANAGH: The speed with which the Soviets had produced ah atomic bomb 36 00:02:29,783 --> 00:02:32,183 astonished America. 37 00:02:32,252 --> 00:02:33,776 I think what surprised us 38 00:02:33,854 --> 00:02:35,788 was that considering the devastation 39 00:02:35,856 --> 00:02:38,757 which had taken place in the Soviet Union 40 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:41,385 as a result of World War ll, 41 00:02:41,461 --> 00:02:45,591 we didn't think they would be able to amass 42 00:02:45,666 --> 00:02:48,829 the necessary infrastructure to develop the bomb, 43 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:50,893 but they certainly did 44 00:02:50,971 --> 00:02:54,532 and they clearly were in our knickers, so to speak. 45 00:02:54,608 --> 00:02:56,701 More and more we learned 46 00:02:56,777 --> 00:02:58,802 how well they had infiltrated 47 00:02:58,879 --> 00:03:01,347 the whole Manhattan Project. 48 00:03:01,415 --> 00:03:04,942 BRANAGH: Some scientists working on America's first A-bomb, 49 00:03:05,018 --> 00:03:07,111 the Manhattan Project, 50 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:08,654 believed that America should not have 51 00:03:08,722 --> 00:03:11,520 a monopoly on nuclear weapons. 52 00:03:11,591 --> 00:03:13,991 Klaus Fuchs, 53 00:03:14,061 --> 00:03:17,656 a German-born, British citizen, was one. 54 00:03:17,731 --> 00:03:19,926 AGNEW: People used him as a baby-sitter, 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,731 he was a very polite, very quiet individual. 56 00:03:23,804 --> 00:03:26,864 No idea at all that he had this dual personality 57 00:03:26,940 --> 00:03:30,376 or this dual endeavor. 58 00:03:30,444 --> 00:03:33,379 BRANAGH: In January 1950, 59 00:03:33,447 --> 00:03:35,176 Fuchs was arrested in London 60 00:03:35,248 --> 00:03:37,273 and charged with passing atomic bomb designs 61 00:03:37,350 --> 00:03:40,444 to the Soviet Union. 62 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,456 He was sentenced to 14 years for espionage. 63 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,560 [speaking Russian ] 64 00:03:49,629 --> 00:03:51,460 INTERPRETER: KGB agents believe that they brought over 65 00:03:51,531 --> 00:03:53,294 all the drawings, 66 00:03:53,366 --> 00:03:55,266 and the scientists simply copied the information 67 00:03:55,335 --> 00:03:57,735 they brought back. 68 00:03:57,804 --> 00:03:59,431 Scientists say the intelligence data 69 00:03:59,506 --> 00:04:01,440 was very important. 70 00:04:01,508 --> 00:04:04,534 The engineers were less enthusiastic. 71 00:04:04,611 --> 00:04:07,205 They said, "So what if we had the information?" 72 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,840 How to make it, how to use it -- 73 00:04:09,916 --> 00:04:13,317 that was not clear. 74 00:04:13,386 --> 00:04:16,981 BRANAGH: The United States looked to its scientists 75 00:04:17,057 --> 00:04:19,753 to regain the lead. 76 00:04:21,862 --> 00:04:24,990 At the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories, 77 00:04:25,065 --> 00:04:27,295 they planned the Hydrogen bomb. 78 00:04:27,367 --> 00:04:29,927 We thought at the time of atomic bombs 79 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:31,732 as being limited in yield 80 00:04:31,805 --> 00:04:33,966 to approximately the yield that had been used 81 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,871 in the war in Japan. 82 00:04:35,942 --> 00:04:37,807 Whereas we thought of hydrogen bombs as being 83 00:04:37,878 --> 00:04:40,278 absolutely unlimited in what the yield could be 84 00:04:40,347 --> 00:04:44,374 and more specifically, we thought of the hydrogen bomb 85 00:04:44,451 --> 00:04:47,215 as being a thousand times as big as atomic bombs, 86 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:49,585 just as atomic bombs had been 87 00:04:49,656 --> 00:04:51,556 a thousand times bigger than the chemical bombs 88 00:04:51,625 --> 00:04:54,025 used in World War ll. 89 00:04:54,094 --> 00:04:55,925 BRANAGH: This enormous destructive power 90 00:04:55,996 --> 00:04:57,861 shocked Robert Oppenheimer -- 91 00:04:57,931 --> 00:05:01,094 former leader of the Manhattan Project. 92 00:05:01,168 --> 00:05:04,797 He and several of his colleagues argued 93 00:05:04,871 --> 00:05:09,137 that such weapons put the whole world at risk. 94 00:05:09,209 --> 00:05:11,643 If there is another world war, 95 00:05:11,711 --> 00:05:15,647 this civilization may go under. 96 00:05:15,715 --> 00:05:19,207 We need to ask ourselves whether we're doing 97 00:05:19,286 --> 00:05:22,278 everything we can to avert that. 98 00:05:24,291 --> 00:05:26,953 BRANAGH: America feared that if it didn't build an H-bomb, 99 00:05:27,027 --> 00:05:28,654 the Russians would. 100 00:05:28,728 --> 00:05:31,219 President Truman gave the go-ahead. 101 00:05:31,298 --> 00:05:33,858 The Pacific atoll of Eniwetok was chosen 102 00:05:33,934 --> 00:05:36,494 to be the site of the world's first 103 00:05:36,570 --> 00:05:39,334 thermonuclear explosion. 104 00:05:39,406 --> 00:05:41,567 By 1952, 105 00:05:41,641 --> 00:05:45,600 Operation Ivy was ready. 106 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:48,409 It required a huge refrigeration system, 107 00:05:48,481 --> 00:05:50,711 weighed over 82 tons 108 00:05:50,784 --> 00:05:52,775 and was 20 feet high. 109 00:05:52,853 --> 00:05:55,447 NARRATOR: In less than a minute you will see 110 00:05:55,522 --> 00:06:00,016 the most powerful explosion ever witnessed by human eyes. 111 00:06:00,093 --> 00:06:02,584 The blast will come out of the horizon 112 00:06:02,662 --> 00:06:04,425 just about there, 113 00:06:04,497 --> 00:06:07,489 and this is the significance of the moment. 114 00:06:07,567 --> 00:06:10,263 This is the first full-scale test 115 00:06:10,337 --> 00:06:12,328 of a hydrogen device. 116 00:06:12,405 --> 00:06:17,399 If the reaction goes, we're in the thermonuclear era. 117 00:06:17,477 --> 00:06:19,809 For the sake of all of us, 118 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,212 and for the sake of our country, 119 00:06:22,282 --> 00:06:25,445 I know that you join me in wishing this expedition well. 120 00:06:25,518 --> 00:06:28,783 MAN ON PA: It is now 30 seconds to zero time. 121 00:06:28,855 --> 00:06:31,517 Put on goggles, or turn away. 122 00:06:31,591 --> 00:06:34,025 Do not remove goggles or face burst 123 00:06:34,094 --> 00:06:38,531 until 10 seconds after the first light. 124 00:06:38,598 --> 00:06:40,498 Minus 10 seconds, 125 00:06:40,567 --> 00:06:42,467 nine, eight 126 00:06:42,535 --> 00:06:44,935 seven, six, 127 00:06:45,005 --> 00:06:47,337 five, four, 128 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:50,035 three, two, one, 129 00:06:50,110 --> 00:06:51,941 t zero. 130 00:06:54,581 --> 00:06:57,379 BRANAGH: On November 1, 1952, 131 00:06:57,450 --> 00:06:59,748 the world's first hydrogen bomb exploded 132 00:06:59,819 --> 00:07:01,810 with a force equivalent 133 00:07:01,888 --> 00:07:05,688 to over 10 million tons of TNT... 134 00:07:07,961 --> 00:07:10,395 1,000 times the power of the bomb 135 00:07:10,463 --> 00:07:13,523 dropped on Hiroshima. 136 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,864 AGNEW: You don't know what heat is 137 00:07:15,936 --> 00:07:20,600 until you've seen the heat from a 10-megaton hydrogen bomb. 138 00:07:20,674 --> 00:07:22,608 It doesn't stop, 139 00:07:22,676 --> 00:07:24,473 it just gets hotter and hotter 140 00:07:24,544 --> 00:07:26,478 and you start to really worry 141 00:07:26,546 --> 00:07:30,983 even though you're 20-some miles away. 142 00:07:31,051 --> 00:07:32,985 And of course, the whole island disappeared, too, 143 00:07:33,053 --> 00:07:35,613 which was subsequently very impressive, 144 00:07:35,689 --> 00:07:38,419 and the whole lagoon was just sort of a milky white. 145 00:07:38,491 --> 00:07:41,085 And then we were asked to go collect samples, 146 00:07:41,161 --> 00:07:43,095 so we got into a little motor boat with buckets 147 00:07:43,163 --> 00:07:45,290 and went charging into the crater 148 00:07:45,365 --> 00:07:47,356 scooping up the radioactive material 149 00:07:47,434 --> 00:07:49,402 and taking it back for the chemists to analyze 150 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:51,403 so we could determine the yield. 151 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:55,032 But we were young, and it was a lot of fun. 152 00:07:57,777 --> 00:08:00,678 BRANAGH: While America was developing the hydrogen bomb, 153 00:08:00,747 --> 00:08:04,205 a conventional war had broken out in Asia. 154 00:08:06,386 --> 00:08:11,085 Korea is a small country thousands of miles away. 155 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:13,148 But what is happening there 156 00:08:13,226 --> 00:08:15,717 is important to every American. 157 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:19,128 The fact that communist forces have invaded Korea 158 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:22,760 is a warning that there may be similar acts of aggression 159 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:25,396 in other parts of the world. 160 00:08:25,472 --> 00:08:29,932 BRANAGH: Congress approved a 40-billion-dollar increase 161 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:32,205 in the defense budget. 162 00:08:32,278 --> 00:08:35,338 Truman, reluctant to use nuclear weapons again in Asia, 163 00:08:35,415 --> 00:08:39,818 fought the communists in Korea with conventional weapons. 164 00:08:44,290 --> 00:08:46,918 In 1952, 165 00:08:46,993 --> 00:08:49,154 General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 166 00:08:49,229 --> 00:08:50,992 the former Supreme Allied Commander, 167 00:08:51,064 --> 00:08:53,555 campaigned to succeed Truman. 168 00:08:54,701 --> 00:08:57,795 Ike was determined not to get caught 169 00:08:57,871 --> 00:08:59,998 in any more conventional wars. 170 00:09:00,073 --> 00:09:01,870 Better, he thought, to threaten the use 171 00:09:01,941 --> 00:09:04,000 of America's growing nuclear arsenal 172 00:09:04,077 --> 00:09:06,409 to deter its enemies. 173 00:09:06,479 --> 00:09:11,382 Besides, you got more bang for your buck. 174 00:09:11,451 --> 00:09:14,648 Moscow was warned that any further aggression 175 00:09:14,721 --> 00:09:18,589 could involve massive retaliation. 176 00:09:21,394 --> 00:09:24,989 By 1954, Russia was changing. 177 00:09:25,065 --> 00:09:27,329 Stalin was dead, 178 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,527 and a struggle for power was taking place 179 00:09:29,602 --> 00:09:34,266 between Nikita Khrushchev and Georgi Malehkov. 180 00:09:34,340 --> 00:09:36,900 [speaking Russian ] 181 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:41,072 INTERPRETER: Malenkov said we have to warn our people 182 00:09:41,147 --> 00:09:43,911 and all of humanity 183 00:09:43,983 --> 00:09:45,917 that nuclear war threatens everyone 184 00:09:45,985 --> 00:09:49,785 with annihilation. 185 00:09:49,856 --> 00:09:54,589 It has to be avoided at all costs. 186 00:10:01,568 --> 00:10:04,264 But Khrushchev saw this as ah attempt 187 00:10:04,337 --> 00:10:09,274 to disarm and weaken the Soviet people. 188 00:10:09,342 --> 00:10:13,073 BRANAGH: Later that year, the Soviet leadership witnessed 189 00:10:13,146 --> 00:10:16,274 a demonstration of their nuclear power. 190 00:10:27,060 --> 00:10:29,893 A ZO-kiloton atomic bomb was dropped 191 00:10:29,963 --> 00:10:31,897 in the middle of a military exercise 192 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:35,264 in Totskoye in the Urals. 193 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:46,278 As the bomb exploded, 194 00:10:46,346 --> 00:10:50,305 troops were sent in to storm the radiated area. 195 00:10:50,383 --> 00:10:52,544 The Red Army was getting ready for nuclear war. 196 00:10:54,821 --> 00:10:58,313 [speaking Russian ] 197 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:00,859 I was a member of the assessment team 198 00:11:00,927 --> 00:11:04,363 for that exercise. 199 00:11:04,430 --> 00:11:08,025 I remember very well how Marshal Bulganin, 200 00:11:08,101 --> 00:11:12,629 the Minister of Defense, 201 00:11:12,705 --> 00:11:14,639 stated that 202 00:11:14,707 --> 00:11:17,870 "Nuclear weapons were not as frightening 203 00:11:17,944 --> 00:11:21,744 as we had been warned by the imperialists." 204 00:11:27,253 --> 00:11:31,087 BRANAGH: American tests in the Pacific continued. 205 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,899 In 1954, "shrimp" was expected to explode 206 00:11:43,970 --> 00:11:46,495 with a force of about 5 megatons. 207 00:11:46,573 --> 00:11:49,007 But the calculations were wrong. 208 00:11:49,075 --> 00:11:51,543 Winds spread radioactive fallout 209 00:11:51,611 --> 00:11:55,012 much further than expected. 210 00:11:55,081 --> 00:11:59,074 We had hot been prepared to have such a high yield, 211 00:11:59,152 --> 00:12:01,916 so the fallout area was much larger, 212 00:12:01,988 --> 00:12:05,515 and unfortunately there was a Japanese fishing vessel, 213 00:12:05,592 --> 00:12:07,150 I think called the Lucky Dragon, 214 00:12:07,227 --> 00:12:09,593 where some of this fallout came down on them 215 00:12:09,662 --> 00:12:13,359 and they had no information as to what this was 216 00:12:13,433 --> 00:12:15,765 and they were a long ways away. 217 00:12:15,835 --> 00:12:18,326 And before any information got to them 218 00:12:18,404 --> 00:12:19,837 or they were detected, 219 00:12:19,906 --> 00:12:24,070 some of the people did suffer some radiation effects. 220 00:12:26,779 --> 00:12:29,748 BRANAGH: The fishermen had been over 80 miles away 221 00:12:29,816 --> 00:12:32,808 when they were caught in a cloud of radioactive dust. 222 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:40,692 "Once again the Japanese have been poisoned 223 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,489 by ashes of death," 224 00:12:42,562 --> 00:12:45,690 reported one Tokyo newspaper. 225 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:49,030 All 23 crewmen fell ill. 226 00:12:49,102 --> 00:12:52,128 One died. 227 00:12:52,205 --> 00:12:54,139 AGNEW: I thought it was unfortunate 228 00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:56,675 that human beings had been affected, 229 00:12:56,743 --> 00:12:59,871 but people get hurt in all sorts of things 230 00:12:59,946 --> 00:13:01,846 all the time. 231 00:13:01,914 --> 00:13:04,109 I don't see why the public reaction 232 00:13:04,183 --> 00:13:06,048 was quite so strong, 233 00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:08,815 although the media has a tremendous effect 234 00:13:08,888 --> 00:13:12,324 on public reaction. 235 00:13:14,394 --> 00:13:16,726 BRANAGH: But it wasn't just the media. 236 00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:21,392 A former Los Alamos scientist was worried, too. 237 00:13:21,467 --> 00:13:24,095 MAN: I came to the conclusion that the bomb was 238 00:13:24,170 --> 00:13:25,933 a very dirty bomb. 239 00:13:26,005 --> 00:13:27,529 And then came a statement 240 00:13:27,607 --> 00:13:29,700 from the Atomic Energy Commission 241 00:13:29,776 --> 00:13:31,744 in the United States, to say, 242 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:34,006 "Don't worry about this... the fallout. 243 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,811 It's not more than you get from a chest X-ray." 244 00:13:37,884 --> 00:13:40,318 Now I happened to know how much you get on a chest X-ray, 245 00:13:40,386 --> 00:13:42,547 and I became very much alarmed. 246 00:13:42,622 --> 00:13:45,989 BRANAGH: Several of the world's leading scientists 247 00:13:46,059 --> 00:13:48,459 shared this concern. 248 00:13:48,528 --> 00:13:50,996 With British philosopher Bertrand Russell, 249 00:13:51,064 --> 00:13:54,124 they put their names to a manifesto. 250 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,101 There lies before us if we choose, 251 00:13:57,170 --> 00:14:00,139 continual progress in happiness, knowledge 252 00:14:00,206 --> 00:14:02,003 and wisdom. 253 00:14:02,075 --> 00:14:04,339 Shall we instead choose death 254 00:14:04,410 --> 00:14:07,573 because we cannot forget our quarrels? 255 00:14:07,647 --> 00:14:10,582 We appeal as human beings to human beings. 256 00:14:10,650 --> 00:14:14,518 Remember your humanity and forget the rest. 257 00:14:14,587 --> 00:14:17,488 If you can do so, the way lies open 258 00:14:17,557 --> 00:14:19,548 to a new paradise. 259 00:14:19,625 --> 00:14:22,389 If you cannot, there lies before you 260 00:14:22,462 --> 00:14:26,421 the risk of universal death. 261 00:14:33,139 --> 00:14:36,165 In 1955, Russia dropped the world's first 262 00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:39,473 airborne H-bomb. 263 00:14:49,622 --> 00:14:52,785 I“ There was a turtle by the name of Bert I“ 264 00:14:52,859 --> 00:14:55,987 I“ and Bert the Turtle was very alert I“ 265 00:14:56,062 --> 00:14:59,225 I“ when danger threatened him he never got hurt I“ 266 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:02,597 I“ He knew just what to do I“ 267 00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:05,102 I“ Duck and cover... I“ 268 00:15:05,171 --> 00:15:08,038 MAN: Now you and I don't have shells to crawl into 269 00:15:08,107 --> 00:15:09,665 like Bert the Turtle, 270 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:12,142 so we have to cover up in our own way. 271 00:15:12,211 --> 00:15:16,147 First you duck, and then you cover. 272 00:15:16,215 --> 00:15:19,673 And very tightly you cover the back of your neck. 273 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:23,279 WOMAN: We would get under our desks and stay there 274 00:15:23,356 --> 00:15:25,290 until we were told to come out 275 00:15:25,358 --> 00:15:27,758 or, in some cases, in some of the classrooms 276 00:15:27,827 --> 00:15:30,660 we had coat-rooms off to the side of each classroom 277 00:15:30,730 --> 00:15:32,823 and we'd walk through and we'd get our coat 278 00:15:32,899 --> 00:15:34,799 and we'd go out into the hallways 279 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:36,994 and we would literally duck down 280 00:15:37,069 --> 00:15:40,527 facing against the wall. 281 00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:42,767 NARRATOR: Remember what to do, friends. 282 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:44,537 Now tell me right out loud. 283 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:47,545 What are you supposed to do when you see the flash? 284 00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:50,707 CHILDREN: Duck and cover! 285 00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:52,410 In that way we thought we were protecting ourselves 286 00:15:52,485 --> 00:15:55,249 from the bombs and from any damage 287 00:15:55,321 --> 00:15:57,346 that would be done to us. 288 00:15:57,423 --> 00:16:00,859 We felt totally secure and protected. 289 00:16:00,927 --> 00:16:02,258 Bomb shelters, you know, 290 00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:04,626 building bomb shelters in the back yard 291 00:16:04,697 --> 00:16:07,291 it was certainly something you saw a lot in magazines 292 00:16:07,366 --> 00:16:09,561 and this connotation that this was happening 293 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:13,127 somewhere in suburbia USA. 294 00:16:13,206 --> 00:16:17,404 I do remember thinking of places in our homes 295 00:16:17,477 --> 00:16:19,843 where these enemy people, these Russians, 296 00:16:19,912 --> 00:16:21,709 would never ever find us 297 00:16:21,781 --> 00:16:25,512 and we would again be, of course, very safe forever. 298 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:29,646 [speaking Russian ] 299 00:16:29,722 --> 00:16:32,384 INTERPRETER: In the 1950s, 300 00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:34,426 it didn't even cross our minds 301 00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:36,291 that the Americans were frightened 302 00:16:36,362 --> 00:16:39,195 of a Soviet invasion. 303 00:16:39,265 --> 00:16:42,530 We thought they knew we only had peaceful aims -- 304 00:16:42,602 --> 00:16:48,404 that all we wanted was to live in peace. 305 00:16:48,474 --> 00:16:52,501 We wanted to rebuild our country. 306 00:16:52,578 --> 00:16:55,877 We had our five-year plans. 307 00:16:55,948 --> 00:16:59,941 Nowhere was it written that we wanted to invade anybody. 308 00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:06,883 We thought that we had something to be frightened of 309 00:17:06,959 --> 00:17:08,893 because they were capitalists 310 00:17:08,961 --> 00:17:13,762 and that was something terrible for us. 311 00:17:13,833 --> 00:17:18,896 We believed that they sucked the blood of the workers. 312 00:17:18,971 --> 00:17:22,600 It didn't even cross our minds 313 00:17:22,675 --> 00:17:27,203 that the Americans were scared of us. 314 00:17:29,215 --> 00:17:31,706 BRANAGH: In the Summer of 1955, 315 00:17:31,784 --> 00:17:34,412 the major powers convened in Geneva. 316 00:17:34,487 --> 00:17:36,387 The Russian delegation was led 317 00:17:36,455 --> 00:17:40,949 by Marshal Bulgahih and Nikita Khrushchev. 318 00:17:44,096 --> 00:17:48,294 Eisenhower's most striking proposal was "Open Skies." 319 00:17:48,367 --> 00:17:51,962 Ike claimed his plan would ease mutual suspicion 320 00:17:52,038 --> 00:17:54,302 but it would also prize open the secrecy 321 00:17:54,373 --> 00:17:58,867 of the Soviet Military Machine. 322 00:17:58,945 --> 00:18:02,437 Open Skies involved both the freedom 323 00:18:02,515 --> 00:18:06,918 to overfly each other and observe... 324 00:18:06,986 --> 00:18:10,012 photograph and observe what was happening, 325 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:13,991 and second, an exchange of blueprints, 326 00:18:14,060 --> 00:18:16,824 as Eisenhower termed it, 327 00:18:16,896 --> 00:18:20,559 of the military programs on both sides. 328 00:18:26,238 --> 00:18:28,604 We broke up for tea shortly after that 329 00:18:28,674 --> 00:18:30,801 and as we were standing there, 330 00:18:30,876 --> 00:18:34,869 Khrushchev came walking up to Eisenhower, 331 00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:38,644 or sidling up in his way of walking, 332 00:18:38,718 --> 00:18:41,915 and said, "Nyet, nyet, nyet. 333 00:18:41,988 --> 00:18:45,424 You're simply trying to look into our bedrooms." 334 00:18:45,491 --> 00:18:47,550 And as we were riding back, 335 00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:50,061 Eisenhower said, "Now we know who's in charge 336 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:54,691 of the Soviet delegation." 337 00:18:54,767 --> 00:18:57,759 BRANAGH: Later that year at the Moscow Air Show, 338 00:18:57,837 --> 00:19:00,863 the Soviets allowed the West to see their new jet bombers, 339 00:19:00,940 --> 00:19:03,636 code named "Bison." 340 00:19:08,114 --> 00:19:10,605 Significantly, 341 00:19:10,683 --> 00:19:14,551 overhead flew 10 long-range TU-95s, 342 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:16,918 capable of delivering a nuclear bomb 343 00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:21,085 all the way to America. 344 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,288 [speaking Russian ] 345 00:19:24,363 --> 00:19:26,888 INTERPRETER: For the Americans, 346 00:19:26,966 --> 00:19:29,332 seeing 10 planes capable of reaching the United States 347 00:19:29,402 --> 00:19:32,963 was a shock. 348 00:19:37,643 --> 00:19:40,703 At that time, 349 00:19:40,780 --> 00:19:44,147 in the absence of ballistic missiles, 350 00:19:44,216 --> 00:19:46,980 they supposed that the Soviet Union didn't have 351 00:19:47,053 --> 00:19:51,752 any means of delivery to America. 352 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,567 BRANAGH: In response to fears of a bomber gap, 353 00:20:03,636 --> 00:20:07,868 Ike doubled the rate of B-52 production. 354 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:10,534 America needed to find out how much of a gap 355 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:13,339 there really was. 356 00:20:20,853 --> 00:20:23,947 In California, the wraps were coming off 357 00:20:24,023 --> 00:20:27,652 a secret photographic reconnaissance plane. 358 00:20:27,727 --> 00:20:30,992 It was designed to fly at 70,000 feet, 359 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,190 out of range of fighter planes 360 00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,699 and anti-aircraft missiles. 361 00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:38,999 The U2. 362 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:41,005 Controlled by the CIA, 363 00:20:41,073 --> 00:20:43,541 these long flights across Soviet territory 364 00:20:43,609 --> 00:20:45,941 posed obvious risks. 365 00:20:46,011 --> 00:20:49,105 But the information they might bring would be vital. 366 00:20:49,181 --> 00:20:51,775 Ike took the gamble. 367 00:20:51,851 --> 00:20:53,785 One of the flights I was on, 368 00:20:53,853 --> 00:20:56,515 I came across the Engels... 369 00:20:56,589 --> 00:20:58,648 so-called Engels airfield, 370 00:20:58,724 --> 00:21:01,784 and much to my surprise and joy 371 00:21:01,861 --> 00:21:05,126 it was loaded with Bison bombers. 372 00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:08,826 I knew right then that I had found 373 00:21:08,901 --> 00:21:11,335 that there was a bomber gap, 374 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:14,531 that this had to be the most important picture 375 00:21:14,607 --> 00:21:17,474 ever taken by a reconnaissance pilot. 376 00:21:17,543 --> 00:21:21,673 I kind of expected Congressional medals of honor 377 00:21:21,747 --> 00:21:23,476 when I landed. 378 00:21:23,549 --> 00:21:28,953 However, it turned out what I'd taken a picture of 379 00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:31,148 was not just a portion 380 00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:33,987 of the entire Russian Air Force bomber fleet, 381 00:21:34,059 --> 00:21:36,755 but in fact I'd taken a picture 382 00:21:36,829 --> 00:21:39,559 of the entire Russian bomber fleet, 383 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:42,123 and there really was no bomber gap. 384 00:21:42,201 --> 00:21:44,999 They were all on that airfield at the same time. 385 00:21:45,070 --> 00:21:47,698 Khrushchev, around that period, 386 00:21:47,773 --> 00:21:50,105 came to the conclusion 387 00:21:50,176 --> 00:21:54,510 that missiles were the weapons of the future 388 00:21:54,580 --> 00:21:59,176 and that warships were getting obsolete, 389 00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:01,378 bombers were getting obsolete. 390 00:22:01,453 --> 00:22:07,323 That we should concentrate everything on missiles, 391 00:22:07,393 --> 00:22:11,386 and as he said somewhere that, 392 00:22:11,463 --> 00:22:13,658 "We are on the point 393 00:22:13,732 --> 00:22:16,257 of producing missiles like sausages." 394 00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:19,498 BRANAGH: Engineers from all over the Soviet Union 395 00:22:19,572 --> 00:22:22,405 had been arriving in the harsh Kazakhstan desert 396 00:22:22,474 --> 00:22:26,467 to build the top-secret rocket base of Baikonur. 397 00:22:33,719 --> 00:22:36,210 On the 15th of May 1957, 398 00:22:36,288 --> 00:22:38,279 they began testing the world's first 399 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:40,985 intercontinental Ballistic Missile, 400 00:22:41,060 --> 00:22:43,620 an ICBM. 401 00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:45,630 [speaking Russian ] 402 00:22:45,698 --> 00:22:47,723 INTERPRETER: We were kept in such strict secrecy 403 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,825 that we couldn't mention the word "missile" 404 00:22:49,902 --> 00:22:52,336 even between ourselves. 405 00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:55,396 It was called "the mechanism," "the product." 406 00:22:55,474 --> 00:22:57,840 We called it "our dear one." 407 00:22:57,910 --> 00:23:00,140 That romanticism -- it helped us to live, 408 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:04,649 to keep going- 409 00:23:04,717 --> 00:23:08,175 BRANAGH: Building missiles was just one step -- 410 00:23:08,254 --> 00:23:11,690 the next would surprise the world. 411 00:23:32,211 --> 00:23:35,510 On October 4, 1957, 412 00:23:35,581 --> 00:23:38,982 Russia launched the world's first space satellite. 413 00:23:39,051 --> 00:23:41,019 They called it Sputnik, 414 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:44,283 "Traveling Companion to the Earth." 415 00:23:49,962 --> 00:23:52,226 Americans took for granted that theirs was 416 00:23:52,298 --> 00:23:54,858 the richest and most technically advanced nation 417 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:57,300 in the world. 418 00:23:57,369 --> 00:23:59,269 With Sputnik now orbiting the Earth, 419 00:23:59,338 --> 00:24:01,636 all that changed. 420 00:24:01,707 --> 00:24:06,508 Russia had won the opening event of the space race. 421 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:11,072 Everywhere eyes and ears turned to the sky. 422 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:19,690 I did have a World War ll surplus piece of equipment 423 00:24:19,758 --> 00:24:21,749 out in our garage 424 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:24,261 that had been out there for some time unused. 425 00:24:24,330 --> 00:24:26,264 It was too heavy to bring into the house. 426 00:24:26,332 --> 00:24:28,800 So I powered that thing up 427 00:24:28,867 --> 00:24:30,835 and tuned one of the channels 428 00:24:30,903 --> 00:24:33,963 to just above 20 megahertz in frequency 429 00:24:34,039 --> 00:24:37,566 and there faintly in the very distant background, 430 00:24:37,643 --> 00:24:39,543 among all the noise and other things, 431 00:24:39,611 --> 00:24:42,205 I could hear this little chirping sound, 432 00:24:42,281 --> 00:24:44,579 more like a cricket chirping than it was a beep, 433 00:24:44,650 --> 00:24:46,083 if you will. 434 00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:48,642 [chirping] 435 00:24:48,721 --> 00:24:50,916 To me, it was the confirmation of the fact 436 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,220 that the Russians had indeed put a satellite into orbit 437 00:24:53,292 --> 00:24:56,489 and sitting there listening to that signal 438 00:24:56,562 --> 00:24:59,588 and watching the booster go overhead 439 00:24:59,665 --> 00:25:01,724 you couldn't help but get goose bumps 440 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,860 thinking about that thing. 441 00:25:04,937 --> 00:25:06,871 [speaking Russian ] 442 00:25:06,939 --> 00:25:10,466 INTERPRETER: Sputnik came as a shock overseas. 443 00:25:10,542 --> 00:25:13,841 The American military and others realized 444 00:25:13,912 --> 00:25:18,110 that the period when they were out of reach had ended. 445 00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:23,746 A new era had begun when instead of a sputnik, 446 00:25:23,822 --> 00:25:28,020 a nuclear weapon could not merely circle the earth, 447 00:25:28,093 --> 00:25:33,053 but land where it was ordered to. 448 00:25:33,132 --> 00:25:35,430 It had given our people quite a jolt, 449 00:25:35,501 --> 00:25:39,767 almost of panic proportions to think 450 00:25:39,838 --> 00:25:42,033 that the Soviets could do that 451 00:25:42,107 --> 00:25:44,041 and that meant they could 452 00:25:44,109 --> 00:25:46,043 hit the United States with missiles. 453 00:25:46,111 --> 00:25:48,807 Well, Eisenhower had been thinking about that for years 454 00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:51,441 and this was no news to him. 455 00:25:51,517 --> 00:25:54,452 Our satellite program has never been conducted 456 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,681 as a race with other nations. 457 00:25:56,755 --> 00:25:58,518 Rather it has been carefully scheduled 458 00:25:58,590 --> 00:26:00,455 as part of the scientific work 459 00:26:00,526 --> 00:26:03,654 of the International Geophysical Year. 460 00:26:03,729 --> 00:26:06,163 I consider our country's satellite program 461 00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:08,927 to be well-designed and properly scheduled 462 00:26:09,001 --> 00:26:11,401 to achieve the scientific purposes 463 00:26:11,470 --> 00:26:14,530 for which it was initiated. 464 00:26:14,606 --> 00:26:17,336 BRANAGH: Eisenhower's critics charged that his lethargy 465 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:21,505 had given away an advantage. 466 00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:23,445 This government needs to start telling the truth 467 00:26:23,515 --> 00:26:25,244 to the American people. 468 00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:27,342 Quit kidding ourselves, and quit trying to fool 469 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:29,944 our friends and our neighbors. 470 00:26:30,022 --> 00:26:31,319 And by that I mean let's find out 471 00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:32,948 just where we stand in this race 472 00:26:33,025 --> 00:26:34,686 and this armament picture, 473 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,751 and let's find out just what we're going to do about it. 474 00:26:36,829 --> 00:26:38,091 Let's quit acting as if nothing happened 475 00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:39,824 because something has happened, 476 00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:41,832 and it has embarrassed us throughout the world. 477 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:45,427 [speaking Russian ] 478 00:26:45,504 --> 00:26:48,564 INTERPRETER: The world's mass media was choking with excitement 479 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,234 that man had now entered into space. 480 00:26:57,282 --> 00:27:01,548 We would liked to have had some rest... 481 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:07,184 but one must give credit to Khrushchev. 482 00:27:09,194 --> 00:27:12,891 He realized that space victories could be 483 00:27:12,965 --> 00:27:16,366 of greater importance in politics 484 00:27:16,435 --> 00:27:18,426 than the threat of a club 485 00:27:18,504 --> 00:27:21,564 with a nuclear bomb on its end. 486 00:27:23,809 --> 00:27:27,336 BRANAGH: Within a month, Russia was ready with Sputnik ll. 487 00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:29,812 This time it carried a passenger, 488 00:27:29,882 --> 00:27:32,544 Laika the dog. 489 00:27:32,618 --> 00:27:35,951 American public opinion was split 490 00:27:36,021 --> 00:27:38,046 between fear of Soviet missiles 491 00:27:38,123 --> 00:27:42,219 and worries about the safety of the dog they called Curly. 492 00:27:42,294 --> 00:27:44,626 WOMAN: We can only pray 493 00:27:44,696 --> 00:27:48,462 in this time of aioneness and suffering for Curly, 494 00:27:48,534 --> 00:27:52,834 that God will be merciful and speed the end. 495 00:27:52,905 --> 00:27:56,500 This voiceless cry of mercy, 496 00:27:56,575 --> 00:28:01,274 as this satellite spans the earth, 497 00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:04,474 should be long remembered as the symbol 498 00:28:04,550 --> 00:28:10,750 of the torture the animal world must go through. 499 00:28:10,822 --> 00:28:13,450 And I don't mean to be facetious at all, 500 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:16,722 but something to be remembered is that 501 00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:21,698 there is a female up there circling Mother earth. 502 00:28:26,605 --> 00:28:29,403 BRANAGH: To catch up with the Russians, 503 00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:32,966 America pushed its ovvn satellite project forward. 504 00:28:33,045 --> 00:28:36,242 GOODPASTER: The army and the air force were very eager 505 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:38,943 to put up a satellite. 506 00:28:39,017 --> 00:28:42,544 Eisenhower was dubious 507 00:28:42,621 --> 00:28:46,580 about their proposals 508 00:28:46,658 --> 00:28:49,855 and decided to call on the Navy 509 00:28:49,928 --> 00:28:52,863 to produce a new satellite, called the Vanguard, 510 00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,592 to carry this out 511 00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:58,898 for peaceful civilian purposes only. 512 00:28:58,971 --> 00:29:02,566 NARRATOR: And so at the sunrise hour of the launching day 513 00:29:02,641 --> 00:29:04,666 the US scientists realize 514 00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:07,109 the world is watching and waiting. 515 00:29:07,179 --> 00:29:10,012 Success or failure will bring equal headlines. 516 00:29:10,082 --> 00:29:12,312 That is one price of greatness. 517 00:29:12,384 --> 00:29:14,682 And the Americans who swept this one out at Cape Canaveral, 518 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:18,416 know their fledgling is on the spot. 519 00:29:30,802 --> 00:29:32,633 After rising but a few feet, 520 00:29:32,704 --> 00:29:35,901 the three-stage, 72-foot rocket loses its thrust. 521 00:29:35,974 --> 00:29:40,001 The remarkable slow motion films tell the rest of the story. 522 00:29:42,648 --> 00:29:45,208 BRANAGH: it was a national humiliation. 523 00:29:45,284 --> 00:29:49,050 The world's press had a field day. 524 00:29:49,121 --> 00:29:50,850 Something had to be done in a hurry 525 00:29:50,922 --> 00:29:54,619 to restore confidence in American technology. 526 00:29:54,693 --> 00:29:57,787 To the rescue came a former German Rocket Scientist, 527 00:29:57,863 --> 00:30:00,627 Werner von Braun. 528 00:30:00,699 --> 00:30:02,257 His team had been working on a military missile 529 00:30:02,334 --> 00:30:05,963 known as the Red stone. 530 00:30:06,038 --> 00:30:09,405 Hurriedly the Explorer satellite was fitted to it. 531 00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:21,114 It worked. 532 00:30:21,186 --> 00:30:24,485 The race in space was between capitalism and communism -- 533 00:30:24,556 --> 00:30:28,322 a competition the West feared Russia was winning. 534 00:30:40,172 --> 00:30:42,640 Russia was bursting with pride, 535 00:30:42,708 --> 00:30:46,576 and celebrated its new, scientific heroes. 536 00:30:50,282 --> 00:30:53,012 America, determined to catch up, 537 00:30:53,085 --> 00:30:56,486 turned to youth. 538 00:30:56,555 --> 00:30:58,455 Too few students had been taking 539 00:30:58,523 --> 00:31:01,959 science and engineering. 540 00:31:02,027 --> 00:31:06,862 Too many had followed softer courses. 541 00:31:06,932 --> 00:31:09,958 The National Defense Education Act was passed. 542 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:12,833 As a result, my ex-husband became an engineer, 543 00:31:12,904 --> 00:31:14,838 my brother became an engineer. 544 00:31:14,906 --> 00:31:17,136 Most of the people that I knew in my small environment 545 00:31:17,209 --> 00:31:20,178 went to become engineers. 546 00:31:20,245 --> 00:31:21,678 After that, after they did that, 547 00:31:21,747 --> 00:31:23,874 they went into other things but they were -- 548 00:31:23,949 --> 00:31:25,849 I mean we were all sort of conditioned to think 549 00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:27,509 we should definitely-- 550 00:31:27,586 --> 00:31:29,713 This is what we need to do. 551 00:31:29,788 --> 00:31:33,849 In 1959, Vice-president Richard Nixon opened 552 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:37,122 the American National Exhibition in Moscow. 553 00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:43,891 He tried to impress Khrushchev with America's advances 554 00:31:43,969 --> 00:31:47,063 in color television. 555 00:31:47,139 --> 00:31:49,733 There are some instances where you may be ahead of us. 556 00:31:49,808 --> 00:31:52,743 For example in the development 557 00:31:52,811 --> 00:31:54,836 of the thrust of your rockets 558 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,881 for the investigation of outer space. 559 00:31:56,948 --> 00:31:58,643 There may be some instances, 560 00:31:58,717 --> 00:32:01,584 for example, color television, where we're ahead of you. 561 00:32:01,653 --> 00:32:04,486 But in order for both of us -- 562 00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:15,699 Wait a minute. 563 00:32:15,767 --> 00:32:20,101 Wait 'til you see the pictures. 564 00:32:20,172 --> 00:32:23,232 BRANAGH: Khrushchev toured the United States, 565 00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:26,937 the first Communist leader to be invited. 566 00:32:34,653 --> 00:32:38,987 In Hollywood, the stars turned out to entertain him. 567 00:32:42,294 --> 00:32:43,727 In the streets, 568 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:47,287 people gave him a frostier welcome. 569 00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:52,469 The last few days of the visit 570 00:32:52,537 --> 00:32:55,870 he spent with Eisenhower at Camp David. 571 00:32:55,941 --> 00:32:57,875 Both said they were ready 572 00:32:57,943 --> 00:33:00,741 to slow down the arms race. 573 00:33:04,583 --> 00:33:07,882 It was difficult for Eisenhower to argue for restraint. 574 00:33:07,953 --> 00:33:10,353 The American people were convinced that the missile gap 575 00:33:10,422 --> 00:33:13,482 favored Russia. 576 00:33:13,558 --> 00:33:16,322 Ike was questioning 577 00:33:16,394 --> 00:33:18,919 how much of a gap there really was. 578 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:21,966 U2 spy planes had been searching for missiles. 579 00:33:22,033 --> 00:33:25,002 Few had been found. 580 00:33:25,070 --> 00:33:27,538 We needed the information the U2 was bringing back 581 00:33:27,606 --> 00:33:29,938 because the Russians were so secretive, 582 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:31,703 the largest country in the world 583 00:33:31,776 --> 00:33:33,767 with no tourists, no nothing. 584 00:33:33,845 --> 00:33:38,612 I mean, we needed some special means for finding out. 585 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,981 BRANAGH: Pilot Gary Powers was selected for one 586 00:33:41,052 --> 00:33:43,043 of the longest and most dangerous spy missions 587 00:33:43,121 --> 00:33:44,986 ever flown. 588 00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:46,683 He would take off from Pakistan 589 00:33:46,758 --> 00:33:52,196 and fly north right across Russia. 590 00:33:52,264 --> 00:33:54,698 His route would take him over new and improved 591 00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:57,633 Soviet anti-aircraft defenses. 592 00:33:57,702 --> 00:34:01,160 As soon as the U2 entered Soviet territory, 593 00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:05,005 Russian radar tracked its progress. 594 00:34:05,076 --> 00:34:08,637 MiG fighters were launched but couldn't climb high enough. 595 00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:10,772 The order was given 596 00:34:10,849 --> 00:34:14,046 to fire new S75 missiles. 597 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:18,179 [speaking Russian ] 598 00:34:18,256 --> 00:34:21,714 INTERPRETER: One missile was enough to shoot down the Powers plane. 599 00:34:21,793 --> 00:34:25,388 What we discovered first of all 600 00:34:25,463 --> 00:34:27,829 were the remains of the plane 601 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:30,129 and here they are behind me -- 602 00:34:30,201 --> 00:34:35,298 the fuselage, wings and fuel tanks. 603 00:34:35,373 --> 00:34:38,171 BRANAGH: Eisenhower was told the plane was missing, 604 00:34:38,243 --> 00:34:41,212 and that a public statement might be needed. 605 00:34:41,279 --> 00:34:43,509 I reminded him that we had 606 00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:45,516 a cover story that we would use, 607 00:34:45,584 --> 00:34:49,418 that the plane was 608 00:34:49,487 --> 00:34:51,648 a high altitude weather plane 609 00:34:51,723 --> 00:34:54,351 and it must have been off course and so on. 610 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:57,554 And so that was put out. 611 00:34:57,629 --> 00:35:00,120 It is entirely possible 612 00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:02,996 that having a failure in the oxygen equipment 613 00:35:03,068 --> 00:35:06,435 which would result in the pilot losing consciousness, 614 00:35:06,504 --> 00:35:08,768 the plane continued on automatic pilot 615 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,831 for a considerable distance, 616 00:35:10,909 --> 00:35:14,106 and accidentally violated Soviet air space. 617 00:35:14,179 --> 00:35:18,206 [speaking Russian] 618 00:35:18,283 --> 00:35:21,548 INTERPRETER: And the main piece of evidence so to speak -- 619 00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:25,021 Powers himself and his equipment. 620 00:35:27,025 --> 00:35:29,550 He had with him a poisoned pen 621 00:35:29,628 --> 00:35:32,722 and a silenced pistol. 622 00:35:37,402 --> 00:35:39,393 Khrushchev sprang the trap 623 00:35:39,471 --> 00:35:41,701 and having us in it, 624 00:35:41,773 --> 00:35:45,106 said we not only have the plane, 625 00:35:45,176 --> 00:35:46,734 we have the pilot. 626 00:35:46,811 --> 00:35:49,371 And it wasn't a plane that was off course -- 627 00:35:49,447 --> 00:35:51,142 it was on course. 628 00:35:51,216 --> 00:35:54,344 It was not a high altitude weather plane, 629 00:35:54,419 --> 00:35:58,014 it was a spy plane and we know all of that 630 00:35:58,089 --> 00:36:01,581 and demanded an apology from the United States. 631 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:05,061 It appears that endeavoring to obtain information 632 00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:08,998 now concealed behind the Iron Curtain, 633 00:36:09,067 --> 00:36:12,969 a flight over Soviet territory was probably undertaken 634 00:36:13,038 --> 00:36:16,940 by an unarmed civilian U2 plane. 635 00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:20,671 Khrushchev gathered us around him and he said, 636 00:36:20,745 --> 00:36:23,509 "Look we are going to take a very tough position 637 00:36:23,581 --> 00:36:26,141 because otherwise our public 638 00:36:26,217 --> 00:36:28,811 simply would not understand. 639 00:36:28,887 --> 00:36:34,655 We'll have to make a statement 640 00:36:34,726 --> 00:36:40,426 saying that the President should apologize, 641 00:36:40,498 --> 00:36:45,162 should punish those responsible for those flights, 642 00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:48,364 and should say that they will not 643 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,671 be repeated any longer." 644 00:36:51,743 --> 00:36:55,235 BRANAGH: Two weeks after the shoot down, 645 00:36:55,313 --> 00:36:57,406 at the long awaited Paris Summit, 646 00:36:57,482 --> 00:37:00,451 Khrushchev, furious that Eisenhower wouldn't apologize, 647 00:37:00,518 --> 00:37:03,009 stormed out. 648 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,290 The summit collapsed. 649 00:37:11,362 --> 00:37:14,058 In Moscow, Power's trial for spying 650 00:37:14,132 --> 00:37:16,600 was a major media event. 651 00:37:16,668 --> 00:37:21,105 The world saw America caught in the act. 652 00:37:21,172 --> 00:37:25,609 I ask the court to weigh all the evidence... 653 00:37:30,548 --> 00:37:33,574 and take into consideration not only the fact 654 00:37:33,651 --> 00:37:36,643 that I committed the crime... 655 00:37:39,457 --> 00:37:44,326 but also the circumstances which led me to do so. 656 00:37:47,899 --> 00:37:51,266 BRANAGH: Powers got 10 years imprisonment. 657 00:37:53,838 --> 00:37:56,238 Khrushchev feared the U2 flights 658 00:37:56,307 --> 00:37:58,605 had exposed his claims of missile superiority 659 00:37:58,676 --> 00:38:02,043 as bluff. 660 00:38:06,785 --> 00:38:09,219 At the secret Baikonur Cosmodrome, 661 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:13,849 engineers were testing a new ICBM. 662 00:38:13,925 --> 00:38:17,292 In charge was Marshal Nedelin. 663 00:38:17,362 --> 00:38:20,024 [ Kraskina speaking Russian ] 664 00:38:20,098 --> 00:38:22,999 INTERPRETER: There was a rush to create a new missile. 665 00:38:23,067 --> 00:38:26,434 Orders are orders. 666 00:38:26,504 --> 00:38:29,598 Everybody worked on orders -- 667 00:38:29,674 --> 00:38:34,805 particularly as Nedelin kept a close eye on this work. 668 00:38:34,879 --> 00:38:37,313 He stayed there for a whole month 669 00:38:37,382 --> 00:38:40,317 watching the work. 670 00:38:40,385 --> 00:38:43,013 He just sat on a fold-up chair in front of the rocket 671 00:38:43,087 --> 00:38:47,490 and kept hurrying people, quicker, quicker. 672 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,947 As a control panel was being fitted, 673 00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:15,543 the engine ignited. 674 00:39:15,620 --> 00:39:19,522 [ Kraskina speaking Russian ] 675 00:39:19,591 --> 00:39:22,526 People were licked by a tongue of flame. 676 00:39:22,594 --> 00:39:26,553 People fell like burning torches 677 00:39:26,631 --> 00:39:30,624 from the top of the rocket. 678 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:36,004 Those close to the rocket died in no time at all. 679 00:39:36,074 --> 00:39:40,477 There was virtually nothing left. 680 00:39:46,084 --> 00:39:49,850 BRANAGH: 189 people died. 681 00:39:54,259 --> 00:39:58,093 When people from our department went to help, 682 00:39:58,162 --> 00:40:00,995 all they could find of Marshal Nedelin 683 00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:04,159 was his Marshal's star. 684 00:40:06,471 --> 00:40:08,769 BRANAGH: in America, the missile program 685 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,334 was at last in top gear. 686 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,436 Eisenhower had approved 687 00:40:15,513 --> 00:40:18,641 an additional $12 billion for defense. 688 00:40:18,716 --> 00:40:22,482 Atlas, Thor, Minuteman and Polaris missiles 689 00:40:22,553 --> 00:40:25,579 were all successfully tested. 690 00:40:43,408 --> 00:40:45,342 1961. 691 00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:48,379 The bands played for a new president. 692 00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:50,380 Throughout his election campaign, 693 00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,575 John F. Kennedy attacked the Republicans 694 00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:54,811 on their weak stance on communism, 695 00:40:54,886 --> 00:40:57,377 and in particular, for the missile gap 696 00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:01,789 he claimed Eisenhower had let develop. 697 00:41:01,859 --> 00:41:04,225 Kennedy promised that his defense experts 698 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,855 would sort out the problem. 699 00:41:06,931 --> 00:41:08,296 I hardly knew the difference 700 00:41:08,366 --> 00:41:11,563 between a nuclear weapon and a conventional weapon. 701 00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:15,732 But my introduction and indoctrination was swift 702 00:41:15,807 --> 00:41:21,404 because a major element of the election campaign 703 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,947 that President Kennedy had just won 704 00:41:24,015 --> 00:41:27,178 was the charge by the Democrats, including President Kennedy, 705 00:41:27,251 --> 00:41:30,118 that Eisenhower had left a missile gap, 706 00:41:30,188 --> 00:41:32,418 that the Soviets had been permitted 707 00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,425 by inaction on the part of the US 708 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:39,793 to build up a superior nuclear missile force. 709 00:41:39,864 --> 00:41:42,856 So, clearly my first responsibility 710 00:41:42,934 --> 00:41:44,401 as Secretary of Defense was to determine 711 00:41:44,469 --> 00:41:46,164 the degree of the gap 712 00:41:46,237 --> 00:41:48,569 and initiate action to close it 713 00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:51,369 and it took us about three weeks 714 00:41:51,442 --> 00:41:53,706 to determine -- yes, there was a gap. 715 00:41:53,778 --> 00:41:57,077 But the gap was in our favor. 716 00:41:57,148 --> 00:41:59,173 BRANAGH: Although behind in the missile race, 717 00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:01,741 Russia still had a card to play -- 718 00:42:01,819 --> 00:42:05,186 Yuri Gagarin. 719 00:42:05,256 --> 00:42:07,121 [speaking Russian ] 720 00:42:07,191 --> 00:42:09,352 From about 5:00 in the morning I kept thinking -- 721 00:42:09,427 --> 00:42:11,987 "Now they're waking him up. 722 00:42:12,063 --> 00:42:14,827 Now he's getting dressed, being fed. 723 00:42:14,899 --> 00:42:17,868 Now he's getting on the bus 724 00:42:17,935 --> 00:42:20,836 on his way to the launch pad." 725 00:42:27,745 --> 00:42:31,306 BRANAGH: Gagarin had been chosen to be the first man in space. 726 00:42:31,382 --> 00:42:35,876 Behind him sat his backup man, Gherman Titov. 727 00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:37,386 [speaking Russian ] 728 00:42:37,455 --> 00:42:39,446 For us it was ordinary work. 729 00:42:39,524 --> 00:42:40,957 Well, not quite ordinary 730 00:42:41,025 --> 00:42:42,993 because we had to fly rockets and sputniks. 731 00:42:43,061 --> 00:42:46,553 But that's what we were prepared for. 732 00:43:14,625 --> 00:43:16,650 [ Kraskina speaking Russian ] 733 00:43:16,727 --> 00:43:19,594 INTERPRETER: We could see the launch very well. 734 00:43:19,664 --> 00:43:23,031 At first our "dear one" started rocking very slightly, 735 00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:26,593 then whoosh off it went. 736 00:43:26,671 --> 00:43:29,731 Up into the sky. 737 00:43:29,807 --> 00:43:32,640 It was incredibly beautiful, particularly for us 738 00:43:32,710 --> 00:43:36,202 who'd given so much of themselves to the project. 739 00:44:48,085 --> 00:44:52,078 Gagarin circled the earth. 740 00:44:52,156 --> 00:44:56,456 The flight had lasted 108 minutes. 741 00:45:00,898 --> 00:45:04,959 He arrived back to a hero's welcome. 742 00:45:13,911 --> 00:45:15,845 [ Mishina speaking Russian ] 743 00:45:15,913 --> 00:45:18,177 There were tears of joy. 744 00:45:18,249 --> 00:45:21,514 People kissed strangers in the streets. 745 00:45:21,586 --> 00:45:24,054 And Gagarin, he was everybody's love. 746 00:45:24,121 --> 00:45:26,316 He and his smile. 747 00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:29,985 I still keep his photograph. 748 00:45:35,032 --> 00:45:38,024 BRANAGH: His achievement delighted every Russian, 749 00:45:38,102 --> 00:45:41,868 and the world. 56749

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