Series from 1998
Hosted by Dean Stockwell, this series examines our greatest mysteries. Governments, corporations and religious groups have secretly wielded vast power…
Government documents indicate that over the past 50 years, American military operations have been responsible for the loss or disappearance of 12 Atomic weapons. How could this happen? What are the consequences? Each account is explored in frightening detail through interviews with the actual pilots that erroneously dropped the deadly weapons. In Savannah, the boggy home to families of residential fisherman, we join investigators as they dredge and wade through the mire in search of what experts believe to be an armed nuclear warhead. "If we've lost 12, how many have they lost?"
On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launch the legendary orbiter, Sputnik, ushering in the space age. In 1998, the Russian Federation sends the first stage of the international space station, Freedom into space. While at first glance it seems little has changed, closer scrutiny reveals that billions of American dollars are being funneled to Russia to secure their participation in the Space Station partnership. Called by NASA's elite, a foreign aid project for the Russians, the principle purpose of the program may be to abate the mass exodus of Russian rocket scientists to unfriendly nations interested in developing weapons of mass destruction.
High-Frequency Active Aural Research Project or H.A.A.R.P. is a combined effort of the Air Force and Navy ostensibly designed to influence the weather. Consisting of large fields of high-energy projectors, this brainchild of controversial inventor Nikola Tesla, has been associated with everything from the breakdown of the ozone layer, to electromagnetic warfare. H.A.A.R.P. has achieved long-range undersea communications, but its clandestine applications as a long-range particle beam weapon able to alter the electrical impulses of the human brain are what make the technology controversial. Narrated by Martin Sheen.
This shocking, power packed indictment brings into sharp focus the Iran/Contra conspiracy through the least likely of events: the slaying of two innocent high school students. Out for a night of fun near the train tracks, these unassuming local boys witness an airdrop of drugs by the infamous international drug smuggler and CIA operative, Barry Sieles. Though some are jailed and others pay with their lives, the remaining victims: the parents of the slain boys, the Constitution of the United States and the people of the Western World, have yet to divine justice.
How does the charismatic energy of any leader result in the voluntary death of hundreds, even a thousand people? Throughout the development of civilization, incidents of mass suicide have shaken humanity to its foundation. Yet history records very different social attitudes toward these extreme events. From the martyrdom staged at Masada against the Romans, to the debauchery and carnage perpetrated by Jim Jones in Guyana, are these the acts of the morally righteous or the morally depraved? In the end, what made them do it?
On March 23, 1989, respected chemists, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman made an announcement that rocked the world of science. Their tabletop experiments with heavy water, a renewable resource readily available in ocean water, yielded enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named, "Cold Fusion," this breakthrough challenged many basic scientific concepts. In response, a group of powerful physicists, heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research, leveled an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons, Fleishman and the entire field of Cold Fusion science. Was the discovery of Fire from Water too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium?
