Cold War: The Tech Race — Season 1, Episode 2: Golden Age of Science
Documentary, War & Politics • 50 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
The superpowers USA and Soviet Union engaged in an arms race during the Cold War and at the same time drove the technological progress of an entire society. Areas of natural science that have so far received little attention, such as seismology and meteorology, are now being declared research goals.
About Cold War: The Tech Race
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.