The test ban treaties did not stop countries like Israel and Pakistan from getting the bomb. The Soviet Union saw its bomb as a virility symbol.

Interviews with Josef Rotbalt (Nobel winner), Wendy Sherman (President Clinton’s aide for dealing with North Korea), Iraqi defector Khamir Hamza (who claims Saddam has hidden some of his nuclear programme in hospitals including one lunatic asylum) and William Timbers (whose company buys uranium from the USSR).