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Atomic Power (film)

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Nearly every person involved in the invention of the atomic bomb performs as an actor in the film, recreating the events and conversations that led up to the
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as the only one of the series' postwar films to emerge as a classic. "It tells of the making of the
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and released to theaters August 9, 1946, one year after the end of
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Life
Richard de Rochemont
Dean Acheson
Vannevar Bush
Arthur Compton
James Conant
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Leslie Groves
Ernest Lawrence
David Lilienthal
Lise Meitner
J. Robert Oppenheimer
George Pegram
I. I. Rabi
Leó Szilárd
Merle Tuve
Harold Urey
Westbrook Van Voorhis
The March of Time
20th Century Fox
short
documentary film
The March of Time
World War II
Academy Award
Best Documentary Short
atomic bomb
Trinity test

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