Discover
William Shatner
Narrator
Edward Teller
Self - Nuclear Physicist
W.H.P. Blandy
Self - Commander Joint Task Force One (archive footage)
Frank H. Shelton
Self - Nuclear Weaponeer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - U.S. President (archive footage)
Adlai Stevenson
Self - U.S Ambassador (1961-1965) to the UN (archive footage)
Randall William Cook
Newsreel Narrator (archive sound)
Nikolai Bulganin
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Everett Dirksen
Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein
Self (archive footage)
Enrico Fermi
Self (archive footage)
Reed Hadley
Self (archive footage)
Averell Harriman
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Hubert H. Humphrey
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Anastas Mikoyan
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Dean Rusk
Self (archive footage)
Woodrow P. Swancutt
Self (archive footage)
Leó Szilárd
Self (archive footage)
Mark Tapscott
Announcer (archive footage)
Paul Tibbets
Self (archive footage)
Wernher von Braun
Self (archive footage)
John von Neumann
Self (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
Self (archive footage)
Roy Neal
Self (uncredited)
Camera
Amanda Thompson
First Assistant Camera
Gary Zietlow
Additional Photography
Barbu Marian
Director of Photography
Cynthia Pusheck
First Assistant Camera
Directing
Peter Kuran
Director
Editing
Peter Kuran
Editor
Gary Barron
Colorist
Production
Lyle Conway
Associate Producer
Dan Harary
Publicist
Kimberly Terhorst
Production Assistant
Alan Munro
Producer
Peter Kuran
Producer
Marilyn Nave
Associate Producer
Avelino Deleon
Production Assistant
Jacqueline Zietlow
Co-Producer
Clay Woods
Production Manager
Sound
Dave Yamamoto
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Lennie Moore
Orchestrator
William T. Stromberg
Conductor
William T. Stromberg
Orchestrator
William T. Stromberg
Original Music Composer
John W. Morgan
Orchestrator
Christine H. Luethje
Music Editor
Michael Miller
Sound Recordist
Mark A. Rozett
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Edgardo Simone
Orchestrator
Camera
Amanda Thompson
First Assistant Camera
Gary Zietlow
Additional Photography
Barbu Marian
Director of Photography
Cynthia Pusheck
First Assistant Camera
Directing
Peter Kuran
Director
Editing
Peter Kuran
Editor
Gary Barron
Colorist
Production
Lyle Conway
Associate Producer
Dan Harary
Publicist
Kimberly Terhorst
Production Assistant
Alan Munro
Producer
Peter Kuran
Producer
Marilyn Nave
Associate Producer
Avelino Deleon
Production Assistant
Jacqueline Zietlow
Co-Producer
Clay Woods
Production Manager
Sound
Dave Yamamoto
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Lennie Moore
Orchestrator
William T. Stromberg
Conductor
William T. Stromberg
Orchestrator
William T. Stromberg
Original Music Composer
John W. Morgan
Orchestrator
Christine H. Luethje
Music Editor
Michael Miller
Sound Recordist
Mark A. Rozett
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Edgardo Simone
Orchestrator