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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later

Codenamedthe Manhattan Projectafter its first offices, the American programgets a new...

Codenamed
the Manhattan Project
after its first offices, the American program
gets a new boss, Brigadier General
Leslie Groves

Full Transcript

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Codenamed the Manhattan Project after its first offices,
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the American program gets a new boss,
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Brigadier General Leslie Groves.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
109
Timestamp in Movie
00:03:28
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
A+E Global Media,History,Hulu Japan,October Films

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Movie Summary

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
LESLIE GROVES: I started to review the laboratories. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
LESLIE GROVES: I started to review the laboratories.
Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:16
Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley,
Before that project, none of them had ever had to produce. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:04
Before that project, none of them had ever had to produce.
They did research. If it didn't turn out, well, nobody cared. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
They did research. If it didn't turn out, well, nobody ...
If they didn't feel like working, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
If they didn't feel like working,
There was none of the feeling that - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:12
There was none of the feeling that
KENNETH NICHOLS: General Groves, I would say, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:11
KENNETH NICHOLS: General Groves, I would say,
He had the biggest ego of any individual I'd ever met. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
He had the biggest ego of any individual I'd ever met.
You need that type of guy to get a thing like this done. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:04
You need that type of guy to get a thing like this done.
NARRATOR: One of the program's scientists is Samuel K. Allison. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
NARRATOR: One of the program's scientists is Samuel K. ...
SAMUEL ALLISON: There was a good deal of irritation and antagonism. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:07
SAMUEL ALLISON: There was a good deal of irritation and anta...
Groves couldn't understand the fact - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
Groves couldn't understand the fact
NARRATOR: To break the deadlock, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:07
NARRATOR: To break the deadlock,
His attention is drawn to a Professor at Berkeley, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:10
His attention is drawn to a Professor at Berkeley,
ROBERT BACHER: If one knew Robert Oppenheimer and knew Groves, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:13
ROBERT BACHER: If one knew Robert Oppenheimer and knew Grove...
You know, he spoke very well, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
You know, he spoke very well,
GROVES: Oppenheimer's great mental capacity impressed me. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
GROVES: Oppenheimer's great mental capacity impressed m...
I was appalled by his ignorance of American history. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
I was appalled by his ignorance of American history.
He had no experience in administration in any way. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
He had no experience in administration in any way.
NARRATOR: Nevertheless, Groves saw something in the professor - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
NARRATOR: Nevertheless, Groves saw something in the professo...