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Too Near the Sun

Overview

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.

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7.0

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United Kingdom

RELEASE DATE

1966

TIME

49m

GENRE

Documentary

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Ronald Baddiley

Ronald Baddiley

Narrator

Robert Beatty

Narrator

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

Winston Churchill

self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

self (archive footage)

Leslie Groves

self (archive footage)

James F. Byrnes

James F. Byrnes

self (archive footage)

Ernest Bevin

self (archive footage)

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov

self (archive footage)

Brien McMahon

self (archive footage)

Dean Acheson

self (archive footage)

Wendell Willkie

Wendell Willkie

self (archive footage)

David Lilienthal

David Lilienthal

self (archive footage)

Bernard Baruch

self (archive footage)

Shūmei Ōkawa

self (archive footage)

Klaus Fuchs

self (archive footage)

Robert Becker

self (archive footage)

Lewis Strauss

self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

self (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy

self (archive footage)

Haakon Chevalier

Haakon Chevalier

self (archive footage)

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