Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Genre : HistoryDramaTV Movie
Runtime : 141 mins
Release Date : 1989-05-12
(Gen. Leslie Groves)
(J. Robert Oppenheimer)
(Leo Szilard)
(James F. Byrnes)
(President Harry S. Truman)
(Gen. George Marshall)
(Henry Stimson)
(Dr. Arthur Compton)
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
(Kitty Oppenheimer)
( - )
(Colonel Pash)
(Edward Teller)
( - )
(Seth)
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
(Groves's Commanding Officer)
( - )
(Ralph A. Bard)
(Enrico Fermi)
(Trude Weiss)
(Colonel Nichols)
(Eugen Wigner)
(Albert Einstein)
(Richard Feynman)
(Hans Bethe)
(Samuel Goudsmit)
(Klaus Fuchs)
(Lord Rutherford)
(Haakon Chevalier)
(Michael Polanyi)
(Ilse Polanyi)
(Colonel Lansdale)
(Robert Wilson)
(Mrs. Wisnovsky)
(Jack Wisnovsky)
(Shapp)
(Mrs. Trowbridge)
(Robert Serber)
(Ed Condon)
(William 'Deke' Parsons)
(Captain DeSilva)
(T. O. Jones)
(James Tuck)
(Harry Gold)
(Army Major)
(Fleischmann)
(Haagen Kistiakowski)
(George Kistiakowski)
(Kenneth Bainbridge)
(William D. Leahy)
(Paul Tibbets)
(Air Force Guard)
(Chemist)
(Alfred MacCormack)
(Army General)
(John J. McCloy)
(Allan Dulles)
(London Pedestrian)
(British Jr. Officer)
(British Sr. Officer)
(Alexander Sachs)
(General Pa Watson)
(Los Alamo Scientist (uncredited))
(Scientist (uncredited))
(Leo Szilard's Prime Scientist (uncredited))