To Mars By A-Bomb (film)

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
Genre	Documentary film
Written by	Christopher Sykes
Directed by	Christopher Sykes
Narrated by	Jonathan Kydd
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	One-episode (about one-hour)
Production
Producer(s)	Stephen Wilkinson
Editor(s)	Christopher Swayne
Running time	60 minutes
Distributor	BBC
Release
Original release	2003 (2003)
External links
Website

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion is a 2003 BBC documentary film about the history of Project Orion.

The feature revolves around the top scientists who wanted to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and Saturn.

The one-hour film was written and directed by Christopher Skyes.

Participants

The documentary film is narrated by Jonathan Kydd and includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name):

• Jaromir Astl (Explosives Engineer)
• Jeremy Bernstein (Physicist)
• Arthur C. Clarke (Physicist and Author)
• Ed Creutz (Physicist)
• Freeman Dyson (Theoretical Physicist)
• George Dyson (Author)
• David Weiss (Test Pilot)
• Edward B. Giller (USAF)
• Jonathan Kydd (narrator)
• Thomas Macken (Aeronautical Engineer)
• Harris Mayer (Physicist)
• Donald I. Prickett (USAF)
• Johndale Solem (Theoretical Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Theodore B. Taylor (Leader, Project Orion)

See also

• History of the anti-nuclear movement
• History of nuclear weapons
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• International Day against Nuclear Tests
• List of nuclear tests
• List of nuclear weapons
• Manhattan Project

External links

• To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion at IMDb.