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  • Pandora's Box A Is for Atom (Season 1, Episode 6)
  • TV Episode | 46 min | Documentary

Pandora's Box

A Is for Atom (Season 1, Episode 6)
TV Episode | 46 min | Documentary

The history of Nuclear Power
Director
Producers
Adam Curtis | Dan Reed (as Daniel Reed)
Cinematographer
Chris Seager (photography)
Status
Edit Released
Updated Dec 31, 1992

Release date
1992 (United Kingdom)
Awards
Series awards
1 win

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20 cast members
Name Known for
Richard Dimbleby
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage) (as President Eisenhower) Self (archive footage) (as President Eisenhower)   See fewer
Victor Gilinsky
Self - Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner 1975-84 (as Dr Victor Gilinsky) Self - Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner 1975-84 (as Dr Victor Gilinsky)   See fewer
Christopher Hinton
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Yurii I. Koryakin
Self - USSR Institute of Power Research (as Prof. Yurii I. Koryakin) Self - USSR Institute of Power Research (as Prof. Yurii I. Koryakin)   See fewer
Valery Legasov
Self - Deputy Director, Atomic Power Institute (archive footage) (as Valeri Legasov) Self - Deputy Director, Atomic Power Institute (archive footage) (as Valeri Legasov)   See fewer
Vladimir I. Merkin
Self - Designer of the First Soviet Civilian Reactor Self - Designer of the First Soviet Civilian Reactor   See fewer
Joseph Morone
Self - Nuclear Historian Self - Nuclear Historian   See fewer
David Okrent
Self - Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 1966 (as Dr David Okrent) Self - Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 1966 (as Dr David Okrent)   See fewer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Robert Pollard
Self - Reactor Engineer AEC 1969-76 Self - Reactor Engineer AEC 1969-76   See fewer
Glenn Seaborg
Self - Chairman AEC 1961-71 (as Dr Glenn Seaborg) Self - Chairman AEC 1961-71 (as Dr Glenn Seaborg)   See fewer
Yuri Shcherbak
Self - Ukrainian Journalist and MP (as Yurii Scherbak) Self - Ukrainian Journalist and MP (as Yurii Scherbak)   See fewer
Kelvin Spencer
Self - Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power 1954-59 (as Sir Kelvin Spencer) Self - Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power 1954-59 (as Sir Kelvin Spencer)   See fewer
Chauncy Starr
Self - Physicist, Manhattan Project (as Dr Chauncy Starr) Self - Physicist, Manhattan Project (as Dr Chauncy Starr)   See fewer
Alvin Weinberg
Self - Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1955-74 Self - Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1955-74   See fewer
Burt Wolfe
Self - General Electric Self - General Electric   See fewer
Adam Curtis
Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Narrator (voice) (uncredited)   See fewer
Jane Fonda
Self - No Nukes Protest (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - No Nukes Protest (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
Queen Elizabeth II
Self - Opening of the Calder Hall Reactor (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Opening of the Calder Hall Reactor (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
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