The Day After Trinity

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Release date: January 20, 1981
Duration: 89 minutes
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Overview

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.

Starring

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