Race for the Bomb (French: La Course à la bombe) is a 1987 three-part television miniseries about the Manhattan Project, starting from the initial stages of scientific discovery that led to the creation of the atomic bomb, discovery of the Ulam-Teller thermonuclear weapons design and ending with the beginning of the arms race.
[1] The series was directed by Allan Eastman and Jean-François Delassus.
The series covers the development of many aspects related to the origin of the bomb, such as scientific, political, and personal.
[2] It stars Tom Rack as Robert Oppenheimer, Maury Chaykin as Leslie Groves, Miki Manojlović as Edward Teller, Jean-Paul Muel as Leo Szilard, Michael Ironside as Werner Heisenberg, Géza Kovács as Otto Frisch, Jean-Claude Deret as Niels Bohr, Denis Forest as Klaus Fuchs and Leslie Nielsen as Lewis Strauss.
[3] Muel received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Program at the 2nd Gemini Awards,[4] and the French version was a Prix Gémeaux nominee for Best Miniseries.