In den Achtzigerjahren ist Richard Nixon immer noch Präsident der USA. Mit Hilfe der mittlerweile pensionierten Superheldengruppe Watchmen konnte er den Vietnamkrieg gewinnen. Als einer der ihren ermordet wird, beginnt Rorschach mit Ermittlungen, wer dahinter stecken könnte und stößt auf eine Verschwörung, die in seinen Augen die Zerstörung aller ehemaliger Superhelden vorsieht. Damit ruft er seine alten Kollegen auf den Plan. Schnell steht fest, dass die Antwort auf alle Fragen in der Vergangenheit zu finden ist.

In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.

An upcoming DC animated film based on the "Watchmen" comic book written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons that follows a group of retired superheroes in an alternate history version of 1985 in America.

Struggling to get home to her stranded baby, a young mother in Amsterdam receives an emergency alert on her phone: a nuclear missile has been launched at the city and residents have forty-five minutes to evacuate.

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe. She visits Los Alamos, home to the United States’ nuclear weapons development facility and the historic home of Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project. In Scotland, she reveals the strategy behind Britain’s nuclear deterrent, and speaks to campaigners in Suffolk fighting against US weapons they fear will be based on UK soil. Jane also discovers how many of the global agreements and safeguards that have constrained the spread of nuclear weapons since the 1970s are breaking down. This is a story told by the scientists, investigators and diplomats who set the clock and have fought to ensure that the ultimate deterrent has not been used in over 70 years.