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Too Near the Sun
1966, Jun 09
0h 49m
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.
Written by
R.W. Reid
Harry S. Truman
self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
self (archive footage)
Robert Beatty
Narrator
J. Robert Oppenheimer
self (archive footage)
Hans Bethe
self (archive footage)
King Gustaf V
self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
self (archive footage)
Leslie Groves
self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
self (archive footage)
Klaus Fuchs
self (archive footage)
Ronald Baddiley
Narrator
Edward Teller
self (archive footage)
Lewis Strauss
self (archive footage)
Haakon Chevalier
self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
self (archive footage)
Enrico Fermi
self (archive footage)
George Gamow
self (archive footage)
George Thomson
self (archive footage)
C. E. M. Joad
self (archive footage)
James F. Byrnes
self (archive footage)
Brien McMahon
self (archive footage)
Dean Acheson
self (archive footage)
Wendell Willkie
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David Lilienthal
self (archive footage)
Bernard Baruch
self (archive footage)
Shūmei Ōkawa
self (archive footage)
Robert Becker
self (archive footage)
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