
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.

as Narrator (voice)

as Self - Hiroshima Survivor

as Winston Churchill

as Parsons

as Self - Military Advisor

as Self - Pilot, Enola Gay

as Self - Navigator, Enola Gay

as Self - Hiroshima Survivor

as Beser

as Stimson

as Admiral Yonai

as General Anami

as Van Kirk

as Groves

as Harry Truman

as Akiko Takakura

as Major Thomas Ferebee

as James F. Byrnes

as Robert Oppenheimer

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)