OPPENHEIMER: The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965)

This 1965 NBC documentary revisits one of the most consequential decisions of the 20th century: the United States’ use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through interviews with J. Robert Oppenheimer and other participants in the Manhattan Project, it explores how scientists, military leaders and government officials weighed the war’s end, Japan’s surrender and the unprecedented destructive power of nuclear weapons.