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A NATO war game spooks the Soviets toward a potential nuclear strike, while a daring Cold War project produces a drone-bomber hybrid capable of carrying 16 nuclear weapons.
Step inside hidden areas where history was steered in secret, from Churchill's wartime bunker, complete with a direct line to FDR concealed inside his private bathroom, to a Soviet weapons base in the desert exposed only by a daring U-2 spy mission.
David Duchovny exposes a clandestine nuclear blast set off deep below Mississippi soil, secret experiments conducted on citizens in the New York subway system, and a wartime bunker built to trap British spies underground during a Nazi invasion.
A French Resistance operative hides explosives in baguettes to cripple a Nazi factory, an American soldier parachutes behind enemy lines to destroy critical supply routes, and Ukrainian forces deploy AI-guided drones to strike a Russian bomber fleet.
From a British scheme to launch balloons against Nazi Germany, to American bats fitted with incendiary devices, to an effort to manipulate monsoon rains in Vietnam, unearthed documents show how far nations were willing to bend reality to their will.
A stranded American pilot in Vietnam is rescued through a code built around familiar golf courses, while Navajo Code Talkers transmit messages that help turn the tide in the Pacific during World War II.
Discover the operations of Red Cell, the covert Navy SEAL team, "The Shop", the CIA's clandestine cadre of expert thieves and lockpickers who stole secrets worldwide, and the Alamo Scouts, the elite World War II special forces unit.
Project Argus sends nuclear warheads into space to test whether radiation can cripple Soviet weapons; in Stalin's secretive laboratory, human waste is analysed to decipher the minds of adversaries.
Some of history's boldest missions succeeded because the world was looking the wrong way; the CIA concealed covert missions behind Air America's civilian façade, British intelligence planted a falsified invasion plan on a corpse to mislead Hitler.
Some rescues read like Hollywood - except they were real; in Operation Halyard, villagers and resistance fighters built an airstrip by hand to spirit stranded airmen out of Nazi territory.
To outmaneuver the enemy, you have to sell the illusion; an FBI agent goes so deep undercover he's the best man at a Mafia wedding, while the Stasi deploys a covert network of charmers across borders to win trust and steal secrets.
Featuring historical covert operations, including an abduction in Argentina, a CIA plot in the Congo and a volunteer's infiltration of Auschwitz; the accounts document highly dangerous intelligence and resistance missions.
When the KGB sets its sights on a NATO missile, they enlist a smooth-talking German playboy armed with only a wheelbarrow, a carpet and a postage stamp.
Uncovering a plane crash in North Carolina that almost triggered nuclear Armageddon; the story of a UFO attack on a U.S. missile base that was suppressed for decades; a daring Israeli heist to steal a cutting-edge fighter jet.
Discovering a deadly poison lab operated by the Soviet Union's infamous "Doctor Death," a vast nuclear missile site buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet, and the U.S. government's doomsday bunker concealed inside a hollowed-out mountain.
From the depths submarine divers have plunged to tap a secret Soviet communication line to the Special Ops team of suicidal soldiers sent to hand-deploy A-bombs in enemy territory, when is "Mission: Impossible" more than just a movie?
The top secret weapons programs that attempted to bring down the world.
From the CIA's decades-long pursuit of the perfect truth serum to the U.S. Army's secret PsyOps in Vietnam, mind games have long been at play among countries, its enemies and even its own citizens; every one a more alarming deception than the next.
Undercover smokescreens driven by daring agents in service of executing a greater purpose.
Stalin's gruesome trials to create a hybrid human-ape super army; the eerie reason East Germany's Stasi collected the scents of dissidents in airtight jars; how the CIA uncovered a secret Soviet island devoted to developing deadly bioweapons.
Glimpses into NASA's covert plan to blow up the moon with a nuclear warhead, the Soviet Union's cover-up of history's deadliest space disaster, and how U.S. attempts to put spies in orbit paved the way for the first space station.
From the seemingly innocuous children's toy engineered to save an informant, to hirsute-inspired movie disguises, the government's most clandestine inventions are never what one would suspect, and that's exactly why no one never saw them coming.
When governments strike dark deals with cults, mobs and even sworn enemies, frosty relationships and mounting tensions are tested head on.