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This excerpt from the Emmy Award-winning documentary “The Day After Trinity”, by Jon Else, tells the story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Exploratorium founder and physicist Frank Oppenheimer joined his brother and the top-secret Manhattan Project in Los Alamos in 1945. This film offers a fascinating look at the dawn of the atomic age through the eyes of those who best understood what they had created.