The Day After Trinity
14 November 1980| 89 min
Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of the Manhattan Project. The film traces the development and testing of the first atomic bomb and follows Oppenheimer’s later opposition to nuclear proliferation during the early years of the Cold War.
Genres
DocumentaryHistory
Cast
Paul Frees
Jon Else
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hans Bethe
Frank Oppenheimer
Haakon Chevalier
Robert Serber
Holm Bursom
Stirling Colgate
Freeman Dyson
Susan Evans
Francis Fergusson
Leslie Groves
Elizabeth Ingram
Robert Krohn
Dave MacDonald
Joseph McCarthy
Dorothy McKibben
Robert Porton
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Harry S. Truman
Francoise Ulam
Stanislaw Ulam
Jane Wilson
Robert R. Wilson
