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Paul Newman plays this can-do administrator who choses physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Dwight Schultz, to lead a group of scientists charged with developing, testing, and building an atomic bomb. Convinced that the weapon can end World War II, he gives video games them 19 months to make it at Los Alamos, New Mexico. John Cusack is featured as Michael Merriman, video games a young Chicago physicist who learns in a tragic way the dangers of the bomb they euphemistically call the "gadget" or the "device." The screenplay by Bruce Robinson and video games Roland Joffe conveys the secrecy of the project; the drive and discipline of the scientists; the fatal flaw of all those involved in the creation of the two bombs — nicknamed Fat Man and Little Boy — namely, the refusal to consider the long-term consequences of these terrible weapons.
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