Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.
Self (archive footage)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self - Daughter of Los Alamos Scientist
Ellen Bradbury Reid
Self - Writer / Director, "Oppenheimer"
Christopher Nolan
Self - Filmmaker, "The Day After Trinity"
Jon Else
Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus"
Kai Bird
Self - Science Educator
Bill Nye
Self - Author, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
Richard Rhodes
Self - Nuclear Security Expert
Mareena Robinson Snowden
Self - Senior Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alan B. Carr
Self - Author, "Brotherhood of the Bomb"
Gregg Herken
Self - Author, "109 East Palace"
Jennet Conant
Self - History Professor, Columbia University
David Eisenbach
Self - Nuclear Historian
Alex Wellerstein
Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus" (voice)
Martin J. Sherwin
Self - Theoretical Physicist
Michio Kaku
Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)
Leslie Groves
Self - Grandson
Charles Oppenheimer
Self - Theoretical Physicist (voice) (archive sound)
Robert Christy
Self - Author, "Racing for the Bomb"
Robert S. Norris
Self - Hiroshima Survivor (Age 10)
Hideko Tamura
Self - Scientist, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)
Roy Glauber
Self - Theoretical Physicist (archive footage)
Edward Teller
Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Judy Woodruff
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Xi Jinping
Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein