Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons. Szilard drafted and Einstein signed the famous warning, which led to the building of the first atomic bomb.
Aired: Jan 14, 1992 NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuw...
Aired: Jan 21, 1992 NOVA takes a voyage on the newest of America's doomsday machines—the ballisti...
Aired: Jan 28, 1992 Few people give any thought to wildlife in the midst of a war. During the Gul...
Aired: Feb 11, 1992 The nose knows. How much is the subject of NOVA's investigation of the myster...
5. Can You Believe TV Ratings?
Aired: Feb 18, 1992Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis...
Aired: Mar 3, 1992 Criminals still make money the old-fashioned way—by counterfeiting. NOVA look...
Aired: Mar 10, 1992 NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod B...
8. An Astronaut's View of the Earth
Aired: Mar 17, 1992NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen Imax/Omnimax...
Aired: Mar 24, 1992 The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island...
Aired: Aug 25, 1992 In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how ...
11. The Genius Behind the Bomb
Aired: Sep 29, 1992Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 le...
Aired: Oct 13, 1992 NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popula...
13. Search for the First Americans
Aired: Oct 20, 1992NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate acros...
14. Rafting Through the Grand Canyon
Aired: Oct 27, 1992NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that ...
Aired: Nov 4, 1992 Dr Mark Lehrer attempts to explain how ancient Egyptians moved the stone bloc...
Aired: Nov 10, 1992 Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his fro...
Aired: Nov 17, 1992 NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research st...
Aired: Dec 1, 1992 Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatm...
19. Can You Stop People from Drinking?
Aired: Dec 22, 1992NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable ...
Aired: Dec 29, 1992 NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity....
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary
