Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny

While space has always been the final frontier, it's also been an unknowable one that every country has wanted to be first to conquer. Finally, newly released documents give us glimpses into NASA's covert plan to blow up the moon with a nuclear warhead, the Soviet Union's cover-up of history's deadliest space disaster, and how U.S. attempts to put spies in orbit paved the way for the first space station--and the secret space race that were hidden from headlines.

Every spy is only as good as their gadgets. From the seemingly innocuous children's toy engineered to save a crucial informant, to hirsute-inspired movie disguises, to the supersized spy balloon that ignited the world's greatest alien conspiracy, your government's most clandestine inventions are never what you would suspect--and that's exactly why no one never saw them coming.

They say better the devil you know, but what happens when you have to hold hands with him? When governments strike dark deals with cults, mobs, and even sworn enemies, frosty relationships and mounting tensions are tested head on. From the CIA's attempt to enlist the Chicago Mob to assassinate Castro, to the only World War II battle where U.S. troops fought alongside the German Army, to Vladimir Putin's recruitment of a convicted murderer as his personal assassin, which sacrifices are worth the bigger picture?

In the razor's-edge theater of global brinkmanship, the world has come closer to annihilation than most ever knew.