Discovery’s New Series Tesla (wt) searches for answers surrounding genius inventor Nikola Tesla’s death and the mysterious disappearance of his files and research. Did Nikola Tesla conceive one of the first weapons of mass destruction and was he murdered for it? In 1943, he was found dead in a hotel room, his safe cracked open, and his research missing. In 2016, the FBI declassified 250 documents that give fresh insight into Tesla’s final work and final days. The all-new Discovery series TESLA w/t premieres Tuesday, January 2.