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.

Top cast

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

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George Thomson

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C. E. M. Joad

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Winston Churchill

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Harry S. Truman

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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)

Dean Acheson

self (archive footage)

Wendell Willkie

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Details