Too Near the Sun

7.0 1966 49 min
Documentary

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…

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Writer
R.W. Reid

Cast

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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)

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