The Day After Trinity (1980)

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.

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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

H

Holm Bursom

Self

S

Stirling Colgate

Self

Freeman Dyson

Self

S

Susan Evans

Self

F

Francis Fergusson

Self

Leslie Groves

Self (archive footage)

E

Elizabeth Ingram

Self

R

Robert Krohn

Self

D

Dave MacDonald

Self

Joseph McCarthy

Self (archive footage)

D

Dorothy McKibben

Self

R

Robert Porton

Self

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Self

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

F

Francoise Ulam

Self

S

Stanislaw Ulam

Self

J

Jane Wilson

Self

R

Robert R. Wilson

Self

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