Los Alamos: The Beginning
1982•49m•Released
DocumentaryHistory
A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of Los Alamos, recalling their experiences of the community and the creation of the atomic bomb from the inception of the program in 1943.
Director
Nancy Zachariasen
Writer
David Moore
Languages
English
Cast
Eliot Kohen
Narrator (voice)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Frank Oppenheimer
Self
Hans Bethe
Self
Edward Teller
Self
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self
Emilio Segrè
Self
Harold Agnew
Self
Stanislaw Ulam
Self
Victor Weisskopf
Self
George Kistiakowsky
Self
Philip Morrison
Self
Priscilla Duffield
Self
Dorothy McKibbin
Self
Robert R. Wilson
Self
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