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.

Starring:

Vlasta Vrana, Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Shalhoub, Tom Butler, Ken Pogue, Ron White, Arthur Holden, Hume Cronyn, 55 more, Barnard Hughes, Lawrence Dane, Michael J. Reynolds, Timothy Webber, Richard Dysart, Olek Krupa, Patrick Breen, David Ferry, Michael Tucker, Alan Scarfe, Romano Orzari, Harry Standjofski, G

Genre:

Drama, History, TV Movie