Day One

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.

Written by allbestmovies

Cast

Brian Dennehy

David Strathairn

Michael Tucker

Hume Cronyn

Richard Dysart

Hal Holbrook

Barnard Hughes

David Ogden Stiers

Ron Frazier

John McMartin

Lawrence Dane

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