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The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Name: The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Director: Fred Freed
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: 1965-01-05
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Chet Huntley, J. Robert Oppenheimer, McGeorge Bundy, Leslie Groves, John J. McCloy

Release Date: January 5, 1965

Genre: Documentary, War

Duration: 1h 24m

Rating: ⭐ 6.7/10

Director: Fred Freed

Cast: Chet Huntley, J. Robert Oppenheimer, McGeorge Bundy, Leslie Groves, John J. McCloy

Storyline

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.