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Bookmark this pageThe Day After Trinity (1980)
Director: Jon Else
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From Time Out Film Guide
Los Alamos, 1941. A boom town (literally) where some of the best and brightest minds of the age, summoned by J Robert Oppenheimer, fabricated America's first atomic bomb. In this documentary they recall how the initial win-the-war fervour, and euphoria that their contraption actually worked, faded fast when they realised they'd replaced one Final Solution with another. Awe-inspiring footage of the Bomb in action, though the film's tiresome obsession with moral anguish and reliance on anecdote, sometimes revealing but often rambling, makes the film less than explosive.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Jon Else
Producer: Jon Else
Cast: Frank Oppenheimer, II Rabi, Robert Wilson, Jane Wilson, Dorothy McKibbin, Stirling Colgate, Paul Frees, Robert Oppenheimer full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 89 mins
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