The Day After Trinity [SEP] nominated for
declassified archival footage, "The Day After Trinity" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1980, and received a Peabody Award in 1981.
The film's title comes from an interview seen near the conclusion of the documentary. Robert Oppenheimer is asked for his thoughts on Sen. Robert Kennedy's efforts to urge President Lyndon Johnson to initiate talks to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. "It's 20 years too late," Oppenheimer replies. After a pause he states, "It should have been
Jon H. Else, B.A. 1968 - nominated twice for the Academy Award (for the documentaries "The Day After Trinity" and "Arthur and Lillie"), cinematographer on the Academy Award-winning "Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?"; Prix Italia recipient ("The Day After Trinity"), recipient of four Emmy Awards, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
- James O'Brien - professor