Day One

Day One

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 12, 1989

Runtime

2h 21m

Genres

History, Drama, TV Movie

User Score

65%

Original Title

Day One

Production Companies

World International Network (WIN), Spelling Entertainment, AT&T

Director

Joseph Sargent

Description

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.