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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later

The whole design of the plutonium chemicalreduction plant at Hanford, there were two of...

GROVES: The whole design of the plutonium chemical
reduction plant at Hanford, there were two of them, cost somewhere around
$50 million apiece

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GROVES: The whole design
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of the plutonium chemical reduction plant at Hanford,
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there were two of them,
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cost somewhere around $50 million apiece.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
490
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:48
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
A+E Global Media,History,Hulu Japan,October Films

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
It was based on a millionth of a pound of plutonium. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:04
It was based on a millionth of a pound of plutonium.
ALLISON: We decided on the Columbia River as the water supply - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:10
ALLISON: We decided on the Columbia River as the water suppl...
The army was very fearful - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
The army was very fearful
GROVES: What we were afraid of - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:09
GROVES: What we were afraid of
NARRATOR: Groves calls in Stafford Warren to conduct a study. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:04
NARRATOR: Groves calls in Stafford Warren to conduct a study...
WARREN: It appeared that - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:12
WARREN: It appeared that
Because we didn't want anything to happen - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
Because we didn't want anything to happen
GROVES: We would have been subjected to terrific criticism, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:10
GROVES: We would have been subjected to terrific criticism,
NARRATOR: It's early 1943, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
NARRATOR: It's early 1943,
At Stalingrad, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
At Stalingrad,
In the Pacific, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:11
In the Pacific,
And in the United States, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:11
And in the United States,
But the project needs a centralized laboratory for the final stage, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
But the project needs a centralized laboratory for the final...
Oppenheimer suggests Los Alamos, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
Oppenheimer suggests Los Alamos,
OPPENHEIMER: We had a ranch, Sangre de Cristo, New Mexico. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:04
OPPENHEIMER: We had a ranch, Sangre de Cristo, New Mexico.
It's about 3,000 meters high, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:09
It's about 3,000 meters high,
GROVES: It was in an area isolated enough - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
GROVES: It was in an area isolated enough
NARRATOR: At Los Alamos, there is a boys' school that is struggling financially. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
NARRATOR: At Los Alamos, there is a boys' school that...
GROVES: It was a school for rich Easterners - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:10
GROVES: It was a school for rich Easterners
There were enough buildings there, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
There were enough buildings there,