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The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
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Producers
Music
Studio
BBC, TF1, ZDF, Discovery
Cast
Full credits →J
John Hurt
Narrator (voice)
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Shuntaro Hida
Self - Hiroshima Survivor
R
Robert Austin
Winston Churchill
G
George Anton
Parsons
G
George Elsey
Self - Military Advisor
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Paul Tibbets
Self - Pilot, Enola Gay
T
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk
Self - Navigator, Enola Gay
D
Daniel Ben Zenou
Beser
E
Ed Bishop
Stimson
K
Katsumi Cho
Admiral Yonai
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Noboru Akima
General Anami
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Lee Colley
Van Kirk
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Garry Cooper
Groves
K
Kenneth Jay
Harry Truman
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Haruka Kuroda
Akiko Takakura
T
Tim Matthews
Major Thomas Ferebee
S
Shane Rimmer
James F. Byrnes
F
Fredrick Ruth
Robert Oppenheimer
J
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
H
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
