
The Day After Trinity
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
Documentary
History
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Casts

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

Freeman Dyson
as Self

Leslie Groves
as Self (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy
as Self (archive footage)