Synopsis

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.

Cast

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

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Ellen Bradbury Reid

Self - Daughter of Los Alamos Scientist

Christopher Nolan

Self - Writer / Director, "Oppenheimer"

Jon Else

Self - Filmmaker, "The Day After Trinity"

Kai Bird

Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus"

Bill Nye

Self - Science Educator

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Richard Rhodes

Self - Author, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"

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Mareena Robinson Snowden

Self - Nuclear Security Expert

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Alan B. Carr

Self - Senior Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Gregg Herken

Self - Author, "Brotherhood of the Bomb"

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Jennet Conant

Self - Author, "109 East Palace"

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David Eisenbach

Self - History Professor, Columbia University

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Alex Wellerstein

Self - Nuclear Historian

Martin J. Sherwin

Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus" (voice)

Michio Kaku

Self - Theoretical Physicist

Leslie Groves

Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)

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Charles Oppenheimer

Self - Grandson

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Robert Christy

Self - Theoretical Physicist (voice) (archive sound)

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Robert S. Norris

Self - Author, "Racing for the Bomb"

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Hideko Tamura

Self - Hiroshima Survivor (Age 10)

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Roy Glauber

Self - Scientist, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)

Edward Teller

Self - Theoretical Physicist (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Judy Woodruff

Self (voice) (archive sound)

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