Lone Cone Library

Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present-day state of nuclear weapons and disarmament diplomacy, making a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament.

Follow an explosive trail through the ages, starting in ninth- century China, and continuing through the discovery of the atomic bomb in the twentieth century.

An atom bomb test deep in the Arctic Circle disturbs the sleep of a giant rhedosaurus encased in ice for over 100 million years. The Beast swims down from the Arctic to New York City on a rampage of destruction and death.

A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's play about the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who found themselves on opposite sides of World War II.

In New York City in the 1930s, The Shadow takes on his nemesis Shiwan Khan, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, who tries to control the world by threatening detonation of an atomic bomb.

A vividly detailed drama film about the horrors of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb, and the strength of those who survived. Based on the novel by Masuji Ibuse, it is set five years after the bomb was dropped in 1945. Yasuko lives with her aunt and uncle, who worry about her future health and marriage prospects.

A dramatization of the decision to drop the atomic bomb and its consequences in Japan.

In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life. A dramatization of the development of the atomic bom by the Manhattan Project, during World War II, with emphasis on the relationship between...