The Decision to Drop the Bomb

01/05/1965

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1hr 24min

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Documentary

,War

STORY

J. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb discuss their motivations in this NBC News documentary. Originally produced and televised in 1965, two decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was re-released in 2023 with an epilogue by Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Chet Huntley
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • McGeorge Bundy
  • Leslie Groves
  • John J. McCloy

    Directors

  • Len Giovannitti
  • Joseph Vadala

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • NBC News

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English