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Day After Trinity
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"THE DAY AFTER TRINITY: J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER AND THE ATOMIC BOMB -"Unnoticed by anyone beyond a remote corner of New Mexico, there was a brief, irrevocable moment in the early morning of July 16, 1945, when mankind lost its nuclear innocence. THE DAY AFTER TRINITY tells the story of the man who brought us to that awesome microsecond in history. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a student of poetry, a linguist of six tongues, searcher for spiritual ideals, and father of the atomic bomb. He lived the life of a gentle and eloquent humanist and, perhaps to his own surprise, became the practical architect of the most savage weapon in history. This contradiction lies at the heart of his public and personal drama and is the central theme of THE DAY AFTER TRINITY. "The film contains extraordinary new archive footage, much of it de-classified for the first time, woven together with the candid recollections of Oppenheimer's close friends, revealing a moving drama of moral and historical forces at work."--1981 Peabody Awards entry form.
Directors & creators
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic bomb, Manhattan Project, Haakon Chevalier, Hans Bethe, Frances Ferguson, Robert Serber, Robert Wilson, Frank Oppenheimer, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Los Alamos, New Mexico, quantum mechanics, Hiroshima
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