Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny - Season 2

First aired: 3/17/2026 9 episodes

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Episodes

1. Escaping Armageddon

Aired: 3/17/2026

In the razor's-edge theater of global brinkmanship, the world has come closer to annihilation than most ever knew. A NATO war game once spooked the Soviets toward a potential nuclear strike, while a daring Cold War project produced a drone-bomber hybrid capable of carrying 16 nuclear weapons. From experimental war machines to the Presidential "Doomsday Plane" built to command America through apocalypse, these are the plans that reveal how near we've stood to the unthinkable.

2. Top Secret Sites

Aired: 3/24/2026

Step inside hidden areas where history was steered in secret, from Churchill's wartime bunker, complete with a direct line to FDR concealed inside his private bathroom, to a Soviet weapons base in the desert exposed only by a daring U-2 spy mission.

3. Buried Secrets

Aired: 3/31/2026

David Duchovny exposes a clandestine nuclear blast set off deep below Mississippi soil, and secret experiments conducted on citizens in the New York subway system.

4. Black Ops

Aired: 4/7/2026

A French Resistance operative hides explosives in baguettes to cripple a Nazi factory, an American soldier parachutes behind enemy lines to destroy critical supply routes, and Ukrainian forces deploy AI-guided drones to strike a Russian bomber fleet.

5. Bizarre Weapons

Aired: 4/14/2026

From a British scheme to launch airborne balloons against Nazi Germany, to American bats fitted with incendiary devices, to a covert effort to manipulate monsoon rains in Vietnam.

6. Cracking The Code

Aired: 4/21/2026

A stranded American pilot in Vietnam is rescued through a code built around familiar golf courses, while Navajo Code Talkers transmit messages that help turn the tide in the Pacific during WWII.

7. Secret Units

Aired: 4/28/2026

Behind official policy often stands unofficial actors. Discover the audacious operations of Red Cell.

8. Extraordinary Experiments

Aired: 5/5/2026

Follow the secretive flights of Project Argus, that sent nuclear warheads into space to test whether radiation could cripple Soviet weapons, while Operation LAC covertly released chemical agents over American communities to simulate biological warfare.

9. Smoke and Mirrors

Aired: 5/12/2026

David Duchovny takes us into the long-spun elaborate tales governments have employed to blanket their boldest missions, showing us how the illusion works – or until it doesn't.