Fortress Britain With Alice RobertsSeason 1, Episode 3 - Avoiding Armageddon

At her castle base, Alice discovers how Britain, shut out by America, was forced to go it alone and build a nuclear deterrent before facing its very own Chernobyl moment. Danielle visits eerie bomb bases and subterranean networks from where the country would have been run following a nuclear war, whilst Onyeka learns how an upper-class spy network was passing our early nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union and discovers just how unprepared the British public would have been in the event of an attack.

Fortress Britain With Alice Roberts was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 3 December 2023, 08:30.