Producers: Jon Else, KTEH Channel 54
Year: 1981
Format: DVD Running time: 88 mins.
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Academy Award Nominee
This haunting examination of the dawn of the nuclear age focuses on the dramatic events surrounding the development of the first atomic bomb, providing a gripping profile of J. Robert Oppenheimer and a penetrating commentary on the nature of scientific inquiry, the McCarthy era, and nuclear proliferation.