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Oppenheimer

Find out if he was based inChicago or Los Alamos during the war

Find out if he was based in
Chicago or Los Alamos during the war

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Find out if he was based in Chicago or Los Alamos during the war.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:59:18
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
Production
Syncopy,Universal Pictures,Atlas Entertainment,Breakheart Films,Peters Creek Entertainment

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Movie Summary

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
- Why does that matter? - If he was based in Chicago, - Oppenheimer 00:08
- Why does that matter? - If he was based in Chicago,
He was founder, mayor, sheriff, all rolled into one. - Oppenheimer 00:06
He was founder, mayor, sheriff, all rolled into one.
All it needs is a saloon. - Oppenheimer 00:09
All it needs is a saloon.
Barbed wire? Guns? Oppie. - Oppenheimer 00:07
Barbed wire? Guns? Oppie.
A vast and sudden chemical reaction. - Oppenheimer 00:05
A vast and sudden chemical reaction.
BETHE: Barbed wire, guns. - Oppenheimer 00:44
BETHE: Barbed wire, guns.
Now let's calculate how much more destructive it would have been - Oppenheimer 00:09
Now let's calculate how much more destructive it would ...
Expressing power in terms of tons of TNT. - Oppenheimer 00:05
Expressing power in terms of tons of TNT.
Well, then... kilotons. - Oppenheimer 00:05
Well, then... kilotons.
Using U-235, the bomb will need... Ah... - Oppenheimer 00:07
Using U-235, the bomb will need... Ah...
Gadget will need a 33-pound sphere about this size. - Oppenheimer 00:06
Gadget will need a 33-pound sphere about this size.
Here's the amount of uranium Oak Ridge refined all of last month. - Oppenheimer 00:06
Here's the amount of uranium Oak Ridge refined all of l...
Now, if we can enrich these amounts, we need a way to detonate them. - Oppenheimer 00:06
Now, if we can enrich these amounts, we need a way to detona...
- How about we leave it with something new? - Such as? - Oppenheimer 00:06
- How about we leave it with something new? - Such as?
Instead of uranium or plutonium, we use hydrogen. - Oppenheimer 00:06
Instead of uranium or plutonium, we use hydrogen.
We compact the atoms together under great pressure - Oppenheimer 00:07
We compact the atoms together under great pressure
Then we'll get not kilotons, - Oppenheimer 00:06
Then we'll get not kilotons,
So how do you generate enough force to fuse hydrogen atoms? - Oppenheimer 00:06
So how do you generate enough force to fuse hydrogen atoms?
Well, since we're going to need one anyway, - Oppenheimer 00:06
Well, since we're going to need one anyway,
The isotopes issue wasn't your most important policy disagreement - Oppenheimer 00:11
The isotopes issue wasn't your most important policy di...