Fat Man and Little Boy
Top 10 Billed Cast
Gen. Leslie R. Groves
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kitty Oppenheimer
Michael Merriman
Kathleen Robinson
Peter de Silva
Richard Schoenfield
Jean Tatlock
Jamie Latrobe
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