The Decision to Drop the Bomb
84 mins
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.
McGeorge Bundy
Self
John J. McCloy
Self
Fred Freed
Producer
Fred Freed
Director
Len Giovannitti
Associate Producer
Fred Freed
Writer
Leroy Anderson
Camera Operator
John Teeple
Editor
Ken Bauer
Editor
Joseph Vadala
Camera Operator
Len Giovannitti
Director
Irving Gitlin
Executive Producer
Robert Garland
Editor
Gerald Yarus
Camera Operator