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.
Directed by: Jon Else
Top Billed Cast: Robert R. Wilson, Paul Frees, Freeman Dyson
Runtime: 89 minutes
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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
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Holm Bursom
Self
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Stirling Colgate
Self
Freeman Dyson
Self
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Susan Evans
Self
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Francis Fergusson
Self
Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage)
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Elizabeth Ingram
Self
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Robert Krohn
Self
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Dave MacDonald
Self
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
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Dorothy McKibben
Self
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Robert Porton
Self
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
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Francoise Ulam
Self
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Stanislaw Ulam
Self
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Jane Wilson
Self
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Robert R. Wilson
Self
