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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.

Date: 05/12/1989

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard Dysart, Hal Holbrook, Barnard Hughes, John McMartin, David Ogden Stiers, Anne Twomey, Lawrence Dane, Ron Frazier, Olek Krupa, Bernie McInerney, John Pielmeier, Ken Pogue, Gary Reineke, Alan Scarfe, John Seitz, Tony Shalhoub, Ester Spitz, Ron White, Stephan Balint, Peter Boretski, Patrick Breen, Vlasta Vrana, George Popovich, Lorne Brass, Michael Sinelnikoff, Graham Haley, Kliment Denchev, Diana Fajrajsl, Timothy Webber, Harry Strandjofski, Lia Sargent, David Gow, Michael Farrell, Isabelle Mejias, Jonathan Wise, George R. Robertson, Dee McCafferty, Tom Butler, Robert Morelli, Jon Baggaley, David Bolt, David Ferry, Heinar Pillar, François Klanfer, Joel Miller, Michael J. Reynolds, Ed McGibbon, Nicholas Kilbertus, Joe Cazalet, Scott Thomson, Bob Clout, Roland Hewgill, Stan Gibbons, Terrence Labrosse, Delise Alison, Alex Guard, Philip Spensley, Frederick Neumann, Norris Domingue, Steve Barry, Arthur Holden, Romano Orzari

Brian Dennehy