Day One 1989
Leo Szilard flees Europe for the United States, where, aided by Einstein, he urges the government to develop an atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves is assigned the project and appoints J. Robert Oppenheimer to lead the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. As World War II ends, Szilard questions the weapon’s morality while officials debate when and if to use it.
Does Day One have end credit scenes?
No!
Day One does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.
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David Strathairn
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Brian Dennehy
Gen. Leslie Groves
Hume Cronyn
James F. Byrnes
Tony Shalhoub
Enrico Fermi
Barnard Hughes
Henry Stimson
Richard Dysart
President Harry S. Truman
Hal Holbrook
Gen. George Marshall
Lawrence Dane
David Ogden Stiers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Olek Krupa
Edward Teller
George R. Robertson
Ed Condon
Timothy Webber
Colonel Lansdale
John McMartin
Dr. Arthur Compton
Michael J. Reynolds
Kenneth Bainbridge
Romano Orzari
Leo Szilard's Prime Scientist (uncredited)
Patrick Breen
Richard Feynman
Ron White
Colonel Nichols
Tom Butler
Captain DeSilva
Ken Pogue
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Scott Thomson
Chemist
Alan Scarfe
David Ferry
Army Major
Ron Frazier
Colonel Pash
Anne Twomey
Kitty Oppenheimer
David Gow
Jack Wisnovsky
Arthur Holden
Scientist (uncredited)
Vlasta Vrana
Hans Bethe
François Klanfer
Haagen Kistiakowski
Harry Strandjofski
Robert Wilson
Lorne Brass
Klaus Fuchs
Frederick Neumann
Alexander Sachs
Gary Reineke
Groves's Commanding Officer
Steve Barry
Los Alamo Scientist (uncredited)
Michael Farrell
Shapp
Graham Haley
Haakon Chevalier
Kliment Denchev
Michael Polanyi
Joel Miller
George Kistiakowski
Terrence Labrosse
Allan Dulles
John Pielmeier
Seth
Norris Domingue
General Pa Watson
Lia Sargent
Mrs. Wisnovsky
John Seitz
Ralph A. Bard
Philip Spensley
British Sr. Officer
Bob Clout
Alfred MacCormack
David Bolt
Harry Gold
Michael Sinelnikoff
Lord Rutherford
Roland Hewgill
Army General
Nicholas Kilbertus
Paul Tibbets
Robert Morelli
T. O. Jones
Peter Boretski
Albert Einstein
Dee McCafferty
William 'Deke' Parsons
Bernie McInerney
Isabelle Mejias
Mrs. Trowbridge
Jon Baggaley
James Tuck
Alex Guard
British Jr. Officer
Jonathan Wise
Robert Serber
Ester Spitz
Trude Weiss
Stephan Balint
Eugen Wigner
George Popovich
Samuel Goudsmit
Diana Fajrajsl
Ilse Polanyi
Heinar Pillar
Fleischmann
Ed McGibbon
William D. Leahy
Joe Cazalet
Air Force Guard
Stan Gibbons
John J. McCloy
Delise Alison
London Pedestrian
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