Too Near the Sun
Documentary
★ 7.0/10196649m
Documentary, first broadcast in 1966, that tells the history of the superbomb, exploring the race by scientists to imitate the nuclear reactions of the sun and build the first thermonuclear weapon. The film reveals how the careers and reputations of some of the scientists involved were seared in the process.
Runtime
49m
Language
English
Released
Jun 9, 1966
Runtime
49m
Language
English
Released
Jun 9, 1966
Cast
Ronald Baddiley
Narrator
Robert Beatty
Narrator
J. Robert Oppenheimer
self (archive footage)
Edward Teller
self (archive footage)
George Gamow
self (archive footage)
Enrico Fermi
self (archive footage)
Hans Bethe
self (archive footage)
King Gustaf V
self (archive footage)
George Thomson
self (archive footage)
C. E. M. Joad
self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
self (archive footage)
Leslie Groves
self (archive footage)
James F. Byrnes
self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
self (archive footage)
Brien McMahon
self (archive footage)
Dean Acheson
self (archive footage)
Wendell Willkie
self (archive footage)
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