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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

When he was offered the work on the hydrogen bomb, he did not want to do it, yet you said...

[Interviewer]
When he was offered the work on the hydrogen bomb, he did not want to do it, yet you said to go ahead to
work on the hydrogen bomb

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- [Interviewer] When he was offered
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the work on the hydrogen bomb,
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he did not want to do it,
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yet you said to go ahead to work on the hydrogen bomb.
Duration
11 seconds
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43
Timestamp in Movie
00:59:34
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
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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.
Well, he was like all the scientists are, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
Well, he was like all the scientists are,
- So Oppenheimer blew it with Harry Truman - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
- So Oppenheimer blew it with Harry Truman
- And then the Soviet Union set off an atomic bomb - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
- And then the Soviet Union set off an atomic bomb
Nobody really was expecting it - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
Nobody really was expecting it
This sets off a whole debate - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:28
This sets off a whole debate
And this is a weapon that can be a thousand times - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
And this is a weapon that can be a thousand times
A couple days afterwards, Scotland Yard announces - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:17
A couple days afterwards, Scotland Yard announces
And so this is a real shocking revelation - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And so this is a real shocking revelation
You go from the Soviets have the atomic bomb, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
You go from the Soviets have the atomic bomb,
And the more that came out about Klaus Fuchs himself, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
And the more that came out about Klaus Fuchs himself,
He was an extremely quiet, reserved person at Los Alamos. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He was an extremely quiet, reserved person at Los Alamos.
He was so well respected that he was used as a babysitter - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
He was so well respected that he was used as a babysitter
And to discover that this guy - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:31
And to discover that this guy
- Suddenly, it was possible to imagine - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- Suddenly, it was possible to imagine
Now, hydrogen bomb, there's almost no limit - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
Now, hydrogen bomb, there's almost no limit
So it could be hundreds of times bigger than - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
So it could be hundreds of times bigger than
The question was, should the US government - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
The question was, should the US government
Oppenheimer argued against it - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:23
Oppenheimer argued against it
And so Oppenheimer argued against this program, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
And so Oppenheimer argued against this program,
He now became under suspicion by them. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
He now became under suspicion by them.