Released:
1965-01-05

Overview:
J. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb discuss their motivations in this NBC News documentary. Originally produced and televised in 1965, two decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was re-released in 2023 with an epilogue by Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian.

Directors:
Fred Freed, Len Giovannitti

Runtime:
1h 24min

Genre:
Documentary, War

• Cast:
• 
  Chet Huntley
  as
  Self
• 
  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  as
  Self
• 
  McGeorge Bundy
  as
  Self
• 
  Leslie Groves
  as
  Self
• 
  John J. McCloy
  as
  Self