NOVA

Season 14, Episode 7

Episode Title: Confessions of a Weaponeer

Air Date: 1987-03-03

Overview:

Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky was an anti-Bolshevik soldier in 1919 Russia, an atomic bomb scientist at Los Alamos, a presidential advisor in the Eisenhower White House and an arms control activist. Shortly before Kistiakowsky death, he recounts his eventful career to interviewer Carl Sagan.