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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.
Keywords
atomic bomb
atomic bomb test
1940s
manhattan project
Casts

Paul Frees
Self - Narrator (voice)

Jon Else
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

Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Ingram
Self
Robert Krohn
Self
Dave MacDonald
Self

Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Dorothy McKibben
Self
Robert Porton
Self

Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self

Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Francoise Ulam
Self
Stanislaw Ulam
Self
Jane Wilson
Self
Robert R. Wilson
Self
Crews

Jon Else
Director

Jon Else
Writer

David Webb Peoples
Writer
Janet Peoples
Writer
Martin Bresnick
Music
Peter R. Baker
Executive Producer
Luther Greene
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Will Harvey
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Samantha Heilwell
Sound
Steve Longstreth
Sound
Morning Slayter
Sound
Michael Chin
Assistant Camera
David Espar
Camera Operator

Stephen Lighthill
Camera Operator
Paul Marbury
First Assistant Camera
Tom McDonough
Camera Operator
Peter Schnall
Assistant Camera
Tom Stern
Location Manager

David Webb Peoples
Editor
Ralph Wikke
Editor

Jon Else
Producer
Courtney Flavin
Associate Producer
Martha Olson
Associate Producer
Kathryn Witte
Associate Producer