Tom Scott
The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire
S12 • E7 Feb 14, 2022 5m
In the 1960s, America was running "Operation Plowshare": the idea that perhaps nuclear bombs could be used for peace, not war. At least some British scientists had similar ambitions, and it involved setting off a nuclear bomb under Wheeldale, in the North York Moors National Park.
