Sophisticated, elegant & intelligent entertainment.

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2006)

Filming this film in black & white was a brilliant means of recreating the technology of the era.
While senator McCarthy engaged in a witch hunt to expose communists, a communist sympathizer working in Los Alamos, managed to transmit to the KGB detailed blueprints of the Fat Man atomic bomb and change the course of history in the process.
I was not alive during McCarthy's senate investigation, from what I have read, the man had a personal agenda and would have bulldozed anybody standing in his way. A psychological profiling of the man would make for interesting reading.
Mr. Morrow on the other was a man of conscience, intellect and integrity. A lucid opponent to McCarthy's paranoia. Senator McCarthy and General (bombs away) Lemay represented dangerous elements in the most dangerous era in recorded human history. It is fortunate that neither of them had access to the launch codes of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.