Who Nuked the Duke: John Wayne, Susan Hayward & the Story of 'The Conqueror'

It's an epic tale that spans more than 30 years. As the Cold War took hold at that dawn of the 1950s the U.S. government began a program to perfect the atom bomb. The Nevada Test Site would be the prime location for testing atomic weapons on U.S. soil. A key to the program was to reduce impact to the public by having the radioactive nuclear fallout drift "downwind" into sparsly-inhabited areas of Utah. Who Nuked The Duke? looks at the program through the camera lense and filming of the 1954...