Tonight | Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny on SBS 2: strange weapons exposed – Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny airs on SBS 2 on Thursday 1 October 2026 at 8:30pm.
Strange Weapons follows military ideas that range from the apocalyptic to the absurd. The episode links a vast Soviet atomic test with a much smaller CIA weapon, showing contrasting approaches to secret weapons development.
Secrets Declassified on SBS 2: David Duchovny
David Duchovny explores government secrets of the modern era, from covert operations and bizarre experiments to deadly technologies and mysterious cover-ups.
The series draws on newly declassified files and evidence to investigate actions carried out by governments and intelligence agencies in the name of national security.
Series one, episode four turns to Strange Weapons. The episode asks what countries were prepared to develop when they wanted to leave nothing to chance in wartime.
Declassified records reveal top-secret weapons programmes intended to gain an advantage through technologies far beyond conventional arms. Some ideas carried immense destructive power; others relied on unusual methods.
Among the cases is a Soviet atomic test that shook the Earth with a force 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
The episode also investigates the CIA’s creation of a gun that fired a toxin harvested from shellfish. Together, the examples bring very different secret projects into view.
When to watch
Watch Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny on SBS 2 on Thursday 1 October 2026 at 8:30pm. Stream free on SBS on Demand.
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