COMMAND AND CONTROL

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

TUESDAY, APRIL 25 @ 9:00PM

Woven through the Damascus story is a riveting history of America’s nuclear weapons program, from World War II through the Cold War, much of it based on recently declassified documents. A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility and extraordinary heroism, Command and Control forces viewers to confront the great dilemma that the U.S. has faced since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? (2 Hours)

FIND OUT MORE »