The Day After Trinity

1980·89'

Jon Else

DocumentaryHistory

English

Letterboxd TMDB #59314

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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.

Cast

Paul Frees Self - Narrator (voice) Jon Else Self - Interviewer J. Robert Oppenheimer Self (archive footage) Hans Bethe Self Frank Oppenheimer Self Haakon Chevalier Self Robert Serber Self

Holm Bursom Self

Stirling Colgate Self Freeman Dyson Self

Susan Evans Self

Francis Fergusson Self