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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

He still kept his directorship of the Institute forAdvanced Study in Princeton, but he...

He still kept his directorship of the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, but he himself spent most of
his time in Washington, DC, meeting with politicians
and urging upon them ways in which they could
use the atomic bomb as a means for peace
rather than war, fulfilling Niels Bohr's vision of what the bomb could achieve

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He still kept his directorship
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of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
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but he himself spent most of his time in Washington, DC,
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meeting with politicians and urging upon them
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ways in which they could use the atomic bomb
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as a means for peace rather than war,
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fulfilling Niels Bohr's vision
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of what the bomb could achieve.
Duration
28 seconds
Views
45
Timestamp in Movie
00:54:37
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
- The late 1940s, before 1949, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
- The late 1940s, before 1949,
Are we in some kind of Cold War or is it something else? - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
Are we in some kind of Cold War or is it something else?
Is there a chance to avoid total confrontation - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
Is there a chance to avoid total confrontation
Is there a chance to avoid a sort of military dominance - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
Is there a chance to avoid a sort of military dominance
- And Oppenheimer drew up this ambitious plan, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:25
- And Oppenheimer drew up this ambitious plan,
- [Kai] The realization that this had happened - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:19
- [Kai] The realization that this had happened
And I think it was hard for him - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
And I think it was hard for him
- The difficulty with Oppenheimer in this whole period - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:17
- The difficulty with Oppenheimer in this whole period
On the other hand, he's become a very important person - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
On the other hand, he's become a very important person
He's sort of the top of the pyramid - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He's sort of the top of the pyramid
He is the face of this new technology, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He is the face of this new technology,
So Oppenheimer's approach through all of this - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
So Oppenheimer's approach through all of this
- And he gets an appointment with Harry Truman - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- And he gets an appointment with Harry Truman
He was very gracious, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:22
He was very gracious,
And so here's the president of the United States - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:31
And so here's the president of the United States
You know, so he's making this argument to Harry Truman, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:29
You know, so he's making this argument to Harry Truman,
And Oppenheimer, like, understands in that moment - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
And Oppenheimer, like, understands in that moment
- Oppenheimer gets very frustrated with Truman, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- Oppenheimer gets very frustrated with Truman,
After all, I have blood on my hands." - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
After all, I have blood on my hands."
He may have built the bomb, but I'm the one who set it off." - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
He may have built the bomb, but I'm the one who set it ...