Release Date

20 Jan, 1981

Runtime

01:29: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential endeavors of the twentieth century to an outspoken opponent of nuclear proliferation who came to deeply regret his role in ushering in the perils of the atomic age.

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Actors

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

Crew

Jon Else

Jon Else

Martin Bresnick

David Webb Peoples

Janet Peoples

Peter Schnall

Morning Slayter

Tom Stern

Peter R. Baker

Luther Greene

Steve Longstreth

Michael Chin

Stephen Lighthill

Samantha Heilwell