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“The Day After Trinity.” Pyramid. $69.95. Six years after it was made, this haunting, 88-minute documentary about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the building of the atomic bomb remains frighteningly relevant--particularly to the debate over President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. Produced and directed by Jon Else, it chronicles how good technology prevailed over good sense and reminds us of history’s lesson that efforts to produce an “ultimate weapon” to end warfare result only in the production of more efficient killing machines. Information: (213) 828-7577.