To the brink of eternity.

BAFTA Award-wining series on the 20th century rise and influence of science and technology, with particular reference to the U.S.A., Russia and Britain. The series has scarcely any medical content but is extremely well done and is of the greatest interest as a chronicle of 20th century delusions. "Part 2: To the Brink of Eternity" The U.S. government's RAND corporation's use of science and technology in the Cold War with the Soviet Union broached new frontiers of unreality. Futurists, games theorists, and all kinds of strategists presented pictures of events that were unrecognisable to those actually involved in running the country and commanding the U.S. Army in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan took refuge from the complexities of science in a mixture of fantasy and simplicity fed to him by the science fiction writers whose advice he sought on running America's defence system.