Overview
Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of the Manhattan Project. The film traces the development and testing of the first atomic bomb and follows Oppenheimer’s later opposition to nuclear proliferation during the early years of the Cold War.
Cast
- Paul Frees as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Jon Else as Self - 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