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.
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2023
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
As Self (archive footage)
Ellen Bradbury Reid
As Self - Daughter of Los Alamos Scientist
Christopher Nolan
As Self - Writer / Director, "Oppenheimer"
Jon Else
As Self - Filmmaker, "The Day After Trinity"
Kai Bird
As Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus"
Bill Nye
As Self - Science Educator
Richard Rhodes
As Self - Author, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
Mareena Robinson Snowden
As Self - Nuclear Security Expert
Alan B. Carr
As Self - Senior Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Gregg Herken
As Self - Author, "Brotherhood of the Bomb"
Jennet Conant
As Self - Author, "109 East Palace"
David Eisenbach
As Self - History Professor, Columbia University
Alex Wellerstein
As Self - Nuclear Historian
Martin J. Sherwin
As Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus" (voice)
Michio Kaku
As Self - Theoretical Physicist
Leslie Groves
As Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)
Charles Oppenheimer
As Self - Grandson
Robert Christy
As Self - Theoretical Physicist (voice) (archive sound)
Robert S. Norris
As Self - Author, "Racing for the Bomb"
Hideko Tamura
As Self - Hiroshima Survivor (Age 10)
Roy Glauber
As Self - Scientist, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)
Edward Teller
As Self - Theoretical Physicist (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
As Self (archive footage)
Judy Woodruff
As Self (voice) (archive sound)
Adolf Hitler
As Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
As Self (archive footage)
Xi Jinping
As Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein
As Self (archive footage)
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