Day One (1989)

This day will go down in history as a black mark against mankind.

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

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Brian Dennehy

Gen. Leslie Groves

David Strathairn

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Michael Tucker

Leo Szilard

Hume Cronyn

James F. Byrnes

Richard Dysart

President Harry S. Truman

Hal Holbrook

Gen. George Marshall

Barnard Hughes

Henry Stimson

John McMartin

Dr. Arthur Compton

David Ogden Stiers

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anne Twomey

Kitty Oppenheimer

Lawrence Dane

Ron Frazier

Colonel Pash

Olek Krupa

Edward Teller

Bernie McInerney

J

John Pielmeier

Seth

Ken Pogue

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gary Reineke

Groves's Commanding Officer

Alan Scarfe

John Seitz

Ralph A. Bard

Tony Shalhoub

Enrico Fermi

E

Ester Spitz

Trude Weiss

Ron White

Colonel Nichols

S

Stephan Balint

Eugen Wigner

P

Peter Boretski

Albert Einstein

Patrick Breen

Richard Feynman

Vlasta Vrana

Hans Bethe

G

George Popovich

Samuel Goudsmit

Lorne Brass

Klaus Fuchs

Michael Sinelnikoff

Lord Rutherford

G

Graham Haley

Haakon Chevalier

K

Kliment Denchev

Michael Polanyi

D

Diana Fajrajsl

Ilse Polanyi

Timothy Webber

Colonel Lansdale

Harry Standjofski

Robert Wilson

Lia Sargent

Mrs. Wisnovsky

David Gow

Jack Wisnovsky

M

Michael Farrell

Shapp

Isabelle Mejias

Mrs. Trowbridge

Jonathan Wise

Robert Serber

George R. Robertson

Ed Condon

Dee McCafferty

William 'Deke' Parsons

Tom Butler

Captain DeSilva

R

Robert Morelli

T. O. Jones

J

Jon Baggaley

James Tuck

D

David Bolt

Harry Gold

David Ferry

Army Major

Heinar Piller

Fleischmann

F

François Klanfer

Haagen Kistiakowski

J

Joel Miller

George Kistiakowski

Michael J. Reynolds

Kenneth Bainbridge

E

Ed McGibbon

William D. Leahy

N

Nicholas Kilbertus

Paul Tibbets

J

Joe Cazalet

Air Force Guard

Scott Thomson

Chemist

B

Bob Clout

Alfred MacCormack

Roland Hewgill

Army General

S

Stan Gibbons

John J. McCloy

T

Terrence Labrosse

Allan Dulles

D

Delise Alison

London Pedestrian

A

Alex Guard

British Jr. Officer

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