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Race for the Superbomb
Companion to a 1999 PBS documentary about how "[a]t the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan." Includes a timeline covering the development of the hydrogen bomb (also H-bomb or superbomb), map of nuclear test sites back to 1945, and video of several bomb detonations. Also provides show transcript.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/
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