The Day After Trinity
- Released on
- Runtime
- 89 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Paul Frees
- Jon Else
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Hans Bethe
- Frank Oppenheimer
- Haakon Chevalier
- Robert Serber
- Holm Bursom
- Stirling Colgate
- Freeman Dyson
- Susan Evans
- Francis Fergusson
- Leslie Groves
- Elizabeth Ingram
- Robert Krohn
- Dave MacDonald
- Joseph McCarthy
- Dorothy McKibben
- Robert Porton
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Harry S. Truman
- Francoise Ulam
- Stanislaw Ulam
- Jane Wilson
- Robert R. Wilson
Director
- Jon Else
Producers
- Jon Else
