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When I calculated the chain reaction
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Oppenheimer

When I calculatedthe chain reaction, I found a rathertroubling possibility

When I calculated
the chain reaction, I found a rather
troubling possibility

Full Transcript

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When I calculated the chain reaction,
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I found a rather troubling possibility.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
192
Timestamp in Movie
00:52:50
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.
No. This can't be right. - Oppenheimer 00:05
No. This can't be right.
Let's get started. - Oppenheimer 00:28
Let's get started.
It's exponential. No. No, no, no. No. - Oppenheimer 00:06
It's exponential. No. No, no, no. No.
Well, have you met Dr. Gödel? We walk here most days. - Oppenheimer 00:05
Well, have you met Dr. Gödel? We walk here most days.
You know, some days, Kurt refuses to eat. - Oppenheimer 00:05
You know, some days, Kurt refuses to eat.
He's convinced that the Nazis can poison his food. - Oppenheimer 00:05
He's convinced that the Nazis can poison his food.
Trees are the most inspiring structures - Oppenheimer 00:07
Trees are the most inspiring structures
Neutrons smash into nucleus, - Oppenheimer 00:07
Neutrons smash into nucleus,
Criticality, a point of no return, - Oppenheimer 00:06
Criticality, a point of no return,
When we detonate an atomic device, - Oppenheimer 00:06
When we detonate an atomic device,
Lost in your quantum world of probabilities - Oppenheimer 00:08
Lost in your quantum world of probabilities
About the only thing you and I have in common is a disdain for mathematics. - Oppenheimer 00:07
About the only thing you and I have in common is a disdain f...
Who's working on this in Berkeley? Hans Bethe. - Oppenheimer 00:05
Who's working on this in Berkeley? Hans Bethe.
And you share your findings with the Nazis. - Oppenheimer 00:05
And you share your findings with the Nazis.
So neither side destroys the world. - Oppenheimer 00:05
So neither side destroys the world.
This is yours, not mine. - Oppenheimer 00:05
This is yours, not mine.
Well he'll get to the truthAnd if the truth is catastrophicThen you stopAnd you share your findings with the NazisSo neither side destroys the world - Oppenheimer 00:17
Well he'll get to the truthAnd if the truth is...
Robert. - Oppenheimer 00:08
Robert.
When you know Teller's critical assumptions, - Oppenheimer 00:06
When you know Teller's critical assumptions,
The chances of an uncontrolled nuclear reaction are near zero. - Oppenheimer 00:05
The chances of an uncontrolled nuclear reaction are near zer...