The Decision to Drop the Bomb
MovieTitle | The Decision to Drop the Bomb |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Jan 5, 1965 |
Genre | Documentary, War |
Director | Fred Freed , Len Giovannitti |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | NBC News |
Run time | 84 min. |
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.