Released:
1989-05-12

Overview:
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.

Director:
Joseph Sargent

Runtime:
2h 21min

Genre:
History, Drama, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Brian Dennehy
  as
  Gen. Leslie Groves
• 
  David Strathairn
  as
  J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 
  Michael Tucker
  as
  Leo Szilard
• 
  Hume Cronyn
  as
  James F. Byrnes
• 
  Richard Dysart
  as
  President Harry S. Truman