Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game
Traitors
Season 1 Episode 2 of 3
The documentary looks at how Britain identified Mikhail Gorbachev as a possible new contender for Soviet leader, believing he could be the ticket to better relations between East and West. Plus, how fragile steps towards diplomacy were threatened by the vested interests of other spies still stuck in the old world order
Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game airs on RTE2 at 6:50 PM, Sunday 12 January. (Subtitles, new.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
History
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Saskia Reeves
Narrator
Martin Munro
Actor
Jacques Theron
Actor