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.
Brian Dennehy
David Strathairn
Michael Tucker
Hume Cronyn
Richard Dysart
Hal Holbrook
Barnard Hughes
John McMartin
David Ogden Stiers
Anne Twomey
Lawrence Dane
Ron Frazier
Olek Krupa
Bernie McInerney
John Pielmeier
Ken Pogue
Gary Reineke
Alan Scarfe
John Seitz
Tony Shalhoub
Ester Spitz
Ron White
Stephan Balint
Peter Boretski
Patrick Breen
Vlasta Vrana
George Popovich
Lorne Brass
Michael Sinelnikoff
Graham Haley
Kliment Denchev
Diana Fajrajsl
Timothy Webber
Harry Strandjofski
Lia Sargent
David Gow
Michael Farrell
Isabelle Mejias
Jonathan Wise
George R. Robertson
Dee McCafferty
Tom Butler
Robert Morelli
Jon Baggaley
David Bolt
David Ferry
Heinar Pillar
François Klanfer
Joel Miller
Michael J. Reynolds
Ed McGibbon
Nicholas Kilbertus
Joe Cazalet
Scott Thomson
Bob Clout
Roland Hewgill
Stan Gibbons
Terrence Labrosse
Delise Alison
Alex Guard
Philip Spensley
Frederick Neumann
Norris Domingue
Steve Barry
Arthur Holden
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