Day One (1989)
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
History, Drama, TV Movie
Cast
- Brian Dennehy — Gen. Leslie Groves
- David Strathairn — J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Michael Tucker — Leo Szilard
- Hume Cronyn — James F. Byrnes
- Richard Dysart — President Harry S. Truman
- Hal Holbrook — Gen. George Marshall
- Barnard Hughes — Henry Stimson
- John McMartin — Dr. Arthur Compton
- David Ogden Stiers — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Anne Twomey — Kitty Oppenheimer
- Lawrence Dane
- Ron Frazier — Colonel Pash
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