The Atomic Age

Quantum physics? Theoretical physicist Brian Greene helps you understand its origins and its impact on today's world.

Humanity is closer than ever before to a perpetual clean power source after a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain. We now know one thing is possible, we can reach ignition.

Ten years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant following the 3.11 megaquake and megatsunami, the once beautiful ‘satoyama’ landscape is now replaced by haphazardly spreading wilderness. The most conspicuous change may be in the local ecosystem.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster was the biggest technological accident in human history. Almost 35 years later, we go back to ground zero to the ghost city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine with survivors of the disaster.

By means of archive images and interviews with experts, take a behind-the-scenes look at the true stories of war innovations and secrets.

Secret Nazi files from World War II reveal formerly classified technological innovations from brilliant German scientists who raced to create terrifying new “Wonder Weapons” and an atomic bomb. Some of their technological “firsts” remain the basis for modern-day air and spacecraft.

Dean Reed's story is the story of a wild and changing world. Through the prism of his life, we witness global youth rebellion, revolutions in popular music, and the shifting tectonics of superpower rivalry.

Big movements of change have often started with tiny events or personal decisions that ended up affecting the history of our world.

NPR’s Peter Sagal takes us on an irreverent romp through American history to reveal how money makes the world go around.

Turning points in history often hinge on one decision. We look at moments in history where one decision changes everything.

During WWII the federal government took over the 60k acres of land known as, Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, turning it into a secret city where workers unknowingly were building the world's 1st atomic bomb. Today it’s known as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where some believe that WWII was won.

Our views of 20th century history have been shaped by popular beliefs and myths. But what if the truth was slightly different?

Cracking the Code reveals the greatest codes known to humanity and the brilliant minds that crack them…

Be an eyewitness to cataclysmic events all across the globe with dramatic footage of natural and manmade disasters from the past 100 years.

YouTube stars Josh and Cody are on a mission—traveling around the world in search of the most spectacular abandoned locations on the planet.