Days That Shook the World — Season 1, Episode 9: First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
Documentary • 50 min • 3 seasons, 32 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
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?
About Days That Shook the World
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana
- E2The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
- E3The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
- E4Hiroshima
- E5The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
- E6Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
- E7Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
- E8Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
- E10The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon
- E11Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
- E12Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell