Release, runtime and language

1989 · 141 mins · English

Directed by

Joseph Sargent

Starring

David Strathairn, Brian Dennehy, Hume Cronyn, Tony Shalhoub, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart

Leo Szilard flees Europe for the United States, where, aided by Einstein, he urges the government to develop an atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves is assigned the project and appoints J. Robert Oppenheimer to lead the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. As World War II ends, Szilard questions the weapon’s morality while officials debate when and if to use it.