The Day After Trinity

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

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jon Else

Self - Interviewer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

Hans Bethe

Self

Frank Oppenheimer

Self

Haakon Chevalier

Self

Robert Serber

Self

Holm Bursom

Self

Stirling Colgate

Self

Freeman Dyson

Self

Susan Evans

Self

Francis Fergusson

Self