Countdown to WW3 Portillo's Hidden History of Britain : Season 2 Episode 3
Channel 5 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: November 16th, 2018 @ 12:00 AM EST on Channel 5
Michael Portillo visits a top-secret Cold War stronghold, just a mile from the Cambridge campus where he spent his university years. The bunker, formerly known as RSG-4, was built in 1953 to house 300 local government officials from Cambridgeshire in the event of a nuclear attack. The former politician is also given access to the decommissioned Soviet nuclear submarine U-475 Black Widow - currently moored at Strood on the River Medway - revealing how close the world came to a full-scale nuclear war.