
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.
Olek KrupaEdward Teller
Tony ShalhoubEnrico Fermi
Michael J. ReynoldsKenneth Bainbridge
Ken PogueGroves's Commanding Officer
Hal HolbrookGen. George Marshall[before the Trinity test, to Oppenheimer]
Gen. Leslie Groves:
Robert - don't you ever worry the war will be over before the bomb is ready to drop?
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