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Days That Shook the World

S1 E92003

First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl

Episode Synopsis

2 December 1942 and 26 April 1986. The first controlled nuclear chain reaction heralded the atomic age, but Chernobyl's runaway chain reaction was the first warning. How did the most exciting scientific breakthroughs ever lead to the disaster that the world had dreaded?

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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana

Episode 1

The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler

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Episode 2

The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela

Episode 3

Hiroshima

Episode 4

The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Episode 5

Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel

Episode 6

Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Episode 7

Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie

Episode 8

First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl

Episode 9

The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon

Episode 10

Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight

Episode 11

Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell

Episode 12

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