Character Relationship Map: The Day After Trinity

Characters

• Self - Narrator (voice) (played by Paul Frees) — protagonist
• Self - Interviewer (played by Jon Else) — supporting
• Self (archive footage) (played by J. Robert Oppenheimer) — supporting
• Self (played by Hans Bethe) — supporting
• Self (played by Haakon Chevalier) — supporting
• Self (played by Frank Oppenheimer) — supporting
• Self (played by Holm Bursom) — supporting
• Self (played by Susan Evans) — supporting
• Self (played by Stirling Colgate) — supporting
• Self (played by Freeman Dyson) — supporting
• Self (played by Robert Serber) — supporting
• Self (archive footage) (played by Joseph McCarthy) — minor
• Self (archive footage) (played by Harry S. Truman) — minor
• Self (archive footage) (played by Leslie Groves) — minor
• Self (played by Isidor Isaac Rabi) — minor
• Self (played by Francis Fergusson) — minor
• Self (played by Elizabeth Ingram) — minor
• Self (played by Robert Krohn) — minor
• Self (played by Dave MacDonald) — minor
• Self (played by Dorothy McKibben) — minor

Story Analysis

A documentary exploring Oppenheimer's leadership of the Manhattan Project and his later reflections on nuclear proliferation.

Plot Progression

1. The Scientific Genesis
2. Trinity Test & Aftermath
3. Political Shifts & Proliferation
4. The Final Interview & Reflection