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Day One

Genres

History , Drama , TV Movie

Duration

141 min

Director

Joseph Sargent

Rating

6.3

Release Date

May 12, 1989

Day One

Original title: Day One

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Synopsis

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.