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Sky’s Atomic Premieres Thursday With a Fictional Take on Nuclear Smuggling

Sky positions the series as a fictional thriller inspired by William Langewiesche’s Atomic Bazaar.

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Overview

  • Two episodes launch on Thursday, August 28, on Sky Atlantic and NOW, with weekly installments to follow.
  • The five-part drama tracks two men swept into a cartel’s plan to move uranium across North Africa and the Middle East.
  • Alfie Allen plays drug smuggler Max opposite Shazad Latif as drifter JJ.
  • Showrunner Gregory Burke adapted themes from Langewiesche’s 2007 non-fiction book Atomic Bazaar.
  • The storyline is dramatized rather than a literal true account, drawing on reported concerns about post-Soviet nuclear trafficking, including routes cited in Turkey and Russian closed cities.