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    The Decision to Drop the Bomb

    The Decision to Drop the Bomb

    1965

    1:24:11

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    The Decision to Drop the Bomb

    Genre

    Documentary
    War

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Fred Freed

    Writers

    Fred Freed,

    Stars

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