Race for the Bomb

Race for the Bomb

1987
📺 1 Season
🎬 3 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
DocumentaryDrama
A dramatization of the human, scientific and historical aspects leading to the development of the first atomic bomb.

Seasons

Season 1
1987 • 3 Episodes
Two Hungarian-Jewish scientist, Leo Szilard and Edward Teller, flee to America after the Nazis take control of Germany, and convice the US government to launch its own atomic project in an effort to prevail over the Germans.

Cast

Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Edward Teller
Jean-Paul Muel
Jean-Paul Muel
Leo Szilard
Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi
Enrico Fermi
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside
Werner Heisenberg
Tom Rack
Tom Rack
Robert Oppenheimer
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin
Général Leslie Groves

Crew

Writer
Jean-François Delassus, Robert Forsyth, Tony Sheer

Network

CBC Television

Production

Ronald Cohen Productions, Philippe Dussart, KOE Studios