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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later

His attention is drawnto a Professor at Berkeley, known for hisgreat relationship with the...

His attention is drawn
to a Professor at Berkeley, known for his
great relationship with the younger physicists,
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Full Transcript

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His attention is drawn to a Professor at Berkeley,
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known for his great relationship
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with the younger physicists, J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
271
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:26
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.
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...
GROVES: Oppenheimer was selected by me, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
GROVES: Oppenheimer was selected by me,
BACHER: The fact was, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:06
BACHER: The fact was,
And when he was told things that were difficult for the project by Oppenheimer, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:11
And when he was told things that were difficult for the...
NARRATOR: Now the most powerful scientist in America, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:07
NARRATOR: Now the most powerful scientist in America,
OPPENHEIMER: The doubts which then existed - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
OPPENHEIMER: The doubts which then existed
And young physicists like Philip Morrison - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:07
And young physicists like Philip Morrison
MORRISON: We could see the war was coming closer and closer - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:04
MORRISON: We could see the war was coming closer and closer
Germany was the leader of modern physics, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:08
Germany was the leader of modern physics,
We knew very well that something was going on in Chicago about fission. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
We knew very well that something was going on in Chicago abo...
And a lot was going on in Boston about microwaves. - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:05
And a lot was going on in Boston about microwaves.
And I imagined that there was an atomic project, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:07
And I imagined that there was an atomic project,
NARRATOR: That uranium project is focused at the University of Chicago, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:10
NARRATOR: That uranium project is focused at the University ...
MORRISON: In December '42, - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:07
MORRISON: In December '42,
And said, "Now, what do you think we're doing here?" - Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later 00:21
And said, "Now, what do you think we're doing here...