J. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb discuss their motivations in this NBC News documentary. Originally produced and televised in 1965, two decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was re-released in 2023 with an epilogue by Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- NBC News
Keywords
- world war ii
- nuclear weapons
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Top Cast
Chet Huntley as Self
J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self
McGeorge Bundy as Self
Leslie Groves as Self
John J. McCloy as Self
John Rich as Self - Special Correspondent
Top Crew
Fred Freed · Director, Writer
Len Giovannitti · Director
John Teeple · Editor
Ken Bauer · Editor
Irving Gitlin · Executive Producer
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