The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965)
1h 24m | PG-13
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.
Director: Fred Freed
Studio: NBC News
Genre: Documentary, War
Video: 720p
Cast
Chet Huntley
as Self
J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self
McGeorge Bundy
as Self
Leslie Groves
as Self
John J. McCloy
as Self
John Rich
as Self - Special Correspondent