Discover
Original Release
07/16/1992
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Richard Dimbleby | Self |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self |
| Victor Gilinsky | Self - Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner 1975-84 |
| Christopher Hinton | Self |
| Yurii I. Koryakin | Self - USSR Institute of Power Research |
| Valery Legasov | Self - Deputy Director, Atomic Power Institute |
| Vladimir I. Merkin | Self - Designer of the First Soviet Civilian Reactor |
| Joseph Morone | Self - Nuclear Historian |
| David Okrent | Self - Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 1966 |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Self |
Directors
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Richard Dimbleby | Self |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self |
| Victor Gilinsky | Self - Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner 1975-84 |
| Christopher Hinton | Self |
| Yurii I. Koryakin | Self - USSR Institute of Power Research |
| Valery Legasov | Self - Deputy Director, Atomic Power Institute |
| Vladimir I. Merkin | Self - Designer of the First Soviet Civilian Reactor |
| Joseph Morone | Self - Nuclear Historian |
| David Okrent | Self - Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 1966 |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Self |
| Robert Pollard | Self - Reactor Engineer AEC 1969-76 |
| Glenn Seaborg | Self - Chairman AEC 1961-71 |
| Yuri Shcherbak | Self - Ukrainian Journalist and MP |
| Kelvin Spencer | Self - Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power 1954-59 |
| Chauncy Starr | Self - Physicist, Manhattan Project |
| Alvin Weinberg | Self - Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1955-74 |
| Burt Wolfe | Self - General Electric |
| Adam Curtis | Narrator |
| Jane Fonda | Self - No Nukes Protest |
| Queen Elizabeth II | Self - Opening of the Calder Hall Reactor |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Edward Mirzoeff | Executive Producer |
| Adam Curtis | Producer |
| Dan Reed | Producer |
