Day One

IMDb link: 0097159
IMDb rating: 7.4 (554 votes)
Genres: Drama, War, History
Director: Brian Dennehy, Joseph Sargent
Cast: David Strathairn, Hume Cronyn, Michael Tucker and others

Release date: 5 Mar 1989
Release year: 1989
Runtime: 141 minutes
Country: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Keywords: cigarette smoking, f word, j. robert oppenheimer character, live action, physicist, europe, atomic bomb, politics, london england, nuke

Plot:

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

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