This documentary was produced as
an episode of the US TV series
“Phenomenon: The Lost Archives”
and it originally aired in 2000, the
last year a series like this could get
made for commercial television.
It tells a vile story of large-scale
corruption in science and the personal
destruction of an accomplished American
scientist, who has since forfeited his US
citizenship and become a national of
France.
His elder work partner had a more dead-
panned response: “People were telling us,
‘What are you trying to do? Break the laws
of nuclear physics?’ And that’s exactly what
we were doing – and succeeding, you see.”
Video (about 46 mins):