Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game
Operation Pimlico
Season 1 Episode 3 of 3
In 1985, a very tense time, a young Mikhail Gorbachev is instated as the new leader of the Soviet Union. East and West have been publicly stockpiling nuclear weapons for decades, neither side wanting to appear weak. Plus, the spying game threatens the first tentative moves towards peace
Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game airs on U&Yesterday at 10:00 AM, Tuesday 27 January. (Subtitles.)
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Saskia Reeves
Narrator
Lucie Ridout
Executive Producer
Kate Quine
Director
Emily Thompson
Producer