Cold War, Hot Jets

BBC Four

1:00 AM to 2:00 AM

Tuesday 14 January

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Part two of two. James Holland explores how the escalating tensions between the superpowers of America and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s led to the jet bomber coming to define how the Cold War was fought. Britain's V-force aircraft were able to fly faster, higher and further than ever before, and were armed with nuclear weapons