Episode
60 Minutes: America's Missile Fields, Saving the Children
Overview
Lesley Stahl gets rare access inside an American nuclear control center and meets the young airmen who watch over some of the world's deadliest weapons; and,in one of the more remarkable humanitarian stories of WWII, Briton Nicholas Winton helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war.
Details
- Series
- 60 Minutes
- Season
- Season 46
- Episode
- Episode 31
- Air date
- 2014-04-27
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
America's Missile Fields, Saving the Children is Episode 31 in Season 46 of 60 Minutes. It aired on 2014-04-27. The runtime is 44 min.
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