The Decision to Drop the Bomb backdrop
The Decision to Drop the Bomb poster
Trailer
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
6.7
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1h 24m
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1965
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Released
Overview
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
Chet Huntley poster
Chet Huntley
Self
J. Robert Oppenheimer poster
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self
McGeorge Bundy poster
McGeorge Bundy
Self
Leslie Groves poster
Leslie Groves
Self
John J. McCloy poster
John J. McCloy
Self
John Rich poster
John Rich
Self - Special Correspondent

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