The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965)

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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.

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

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Chet Huntley
Chet Huntley as Self Died 1974 · Cardwell, Montana, USA Huntley began his radio newscast career in 1934 at Seattle's KIRO AM, later working on radio stations in Spokane (KHQ) and Portland. His time (1936–37) in Portland was with KGW-AM, owned by The Oregon...
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self Died 1967 · New York City, New York, USA J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is ofte...
Leslie Groves
Leslie Groves as Self Died 1970 · Albany, New York, USA Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research...
John Rich
John Rich as Self - Special Correspondent Died 2012 · Rockaway Beach, New York, U.S. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Rich is a film and television director. He directed such television shows as Where's Raymond?, Mister Ed, The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, The Je...
Director Fred Freed
Cast Chet Huntley, J. Robert Oppenheimer, McGeorge Bundy, Leslie Groves, John J. McCloy, John Rich

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