The Decision to Drop the Bomb

6.7196584 min

DocumentaryWar

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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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

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

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