The Day After Trinity (1981)
Synopsis
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential endeavors of the twentieth century to an outspoken opponent of nuclear proliferation who came to deeply regret his role in ushering in the perils of the atomic age.
Release Date: 1981-01-20
Runtime: 89 minutes
Director: Jon Else
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- Paul Frees as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Jon Else as Interviewer
- J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self (archive footage)
- Hans Bethe as Self
- Frank Oppenheimer as Self
- Haakon Chevalier as Self
- Robert Serber as Self
- Holm Bursom as Self
- Stirling Colgate as Self
- Freeman Dyson as Self
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