Cold War: The Tech Race
tv show
4 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired June 11, 2021
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Overview
The decades during the Cold War were one thing above all: a race between scientists. Researchers, engineers and experts from the USA and the Soviet Union not only drove the space program, but also experimented in the fields of atomic energy, weapons technology and meteorology. The documentary highlights the technological advances from 1947-1991 in four episodes.
Information Is Power
Season 1 - Episode 3 - 1h 50m
Air Date
June 25, 2021
Overview
In the race between the two superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, for supremacy during the Cold War, the development of new technologies was massively promoted. Especially in space and aviation. Rockets could be equipped with nuclear weapons and transported satellites into space. The development of computers also took a rapid course and the information age began.