The Decision to Drop the Bomb

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.

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Director

Fred Freed

Len Giovannitti

Cast

Chet Huntley

J. Robert Oppenheimer

McGeorge Bundy

Leslie Groves

John J. McCloy

John Rich

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