Day One (movie)
- User score: 6.5
- Production country: Canada, United States of America
- Producer: Joseph Sargent
- Production companies: World International Network (WIN), Spelling Entertainment, AT&T
- Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie
- Release date: 5/12/1989
- Run time: 141 min.
Movie description
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.
