The Day After Trinity is a powerfully effective documentary tracing the life story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the production of the first atomic bomb, weaving together newly-declassified color footage with memories of surviving participants in the Oppenheimer story. What emerges is a drama of the personal, political and moral forces which ushered us into the nuclear age.
Examined in some detail are the spectacular secrets of the Manhattan Project, the explosions at Trinity Site, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the ill-conceived security hearing which brought Oppenheimer's career to a sudden end in 1954; cast against the centers of power in Washington D.C., the battlegrounds of World War II, and the wilderness of northern New Mexico.
Included in the film is color footage of Oppenheimer and his team assembling the first bomb in 1945, as well as captured Japanese footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.