Too Near the Sun (1966)

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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	Ronald Baddiley	As: Narrator
	Robert Beatty	As: Narrator
	J. Robert Oppenheimer	As: self (archive footage)
	Edward Teller	As: self (archive footage)
	George Gamow	As: self (archive footage)

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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 09 June 1966

Country: GB

Runtime: 49m

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Company: BBC

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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	self (archive footage)
	George Thomson	self (archive footage)
	C. E. M. Joad	self (archive footage)
	Winston Churchill	self (archive footage)
	Harry S. Truman	self (archive footage)
	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	self (archive footage)
	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	self (archive footage)
	Joseph McCarthy	self (archive footage)
	Haakon Chevalier	self (archive footage)