The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Name: The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: 1965
Rating: 6.7

1965· 1h 24m

DocumentaryWar

Directed by Fred Freed, Len Giovannitti

6.7/ 10

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Overview

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.