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The scientific research which ushered in the dawn of the nuclear era is examined in this penetrating documentary. The site is Los Alamos, New Mexico, where, in 1941, J. Robert Oppenheimer and a group of brilliant scientists worked on a government project to end the war -- with the result being a weapon of such power and destructive capability that its use in 1945 irrevocably changed the world. With footage of actual explosions and interviews with the people involved in the research, the film explores the moral anguish experienced by the naive scientists whose peace-inspired work resulted in the creation of a new generation of terrifying weapons.