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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

And here, the LosAlamos Boys School had a dormitory anda conference room and, you...

[light music] And here, the Los
Alamos Boys School had a dormitory and
a conference room and, you know,
the beginnings of, they had no idea how many
people they would need

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And here, the Los Alamos Boys School
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had a dormitory and a conference room
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and, you know, the beginnings of,
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they had no idea how many people they would need.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:34:21
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.
- It was Oppenheimer's insistence - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- It was Oppenheimer's insistence
It's right in the hills, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
It's right in the hills,
And Oppenheimer, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
And Oppenheimer,
And as it turned out, he could have meetings - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:29
And as it turned out, he could have meetings
And so as it turned out, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
And so as it turned out,
- [Kai] The initial estimate was maybe 100 people - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- [Kai] The initial estimate was maybe 100 people
Well, it quickly grew to 1,000 - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
Well, it quickly grew to 1,000
By the end of the war, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
By the end of the war,
He later said that, you know, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
He later said that, you know,
You know, the idea of fission had been discovered in 1939, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
You know, the idea of fission had been discovered in 1939,
So it was an open secret - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:24
So it was an open secret
- The building of the device, the design of the device, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
- The building of the device, the design of the device,
There was tremendous time pressure on Los Alamos - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:26
There was tremendous time pressure on Los Alamos
- Rather strangely, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- Rather strangely,
He was the archetypal ivory tower academic, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
He was the archetypal ivory tower academic,
- Oh, he again had transformed himself - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- Oh, he again had transformed himself
He had a signature pork pie hat, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
He had a signature pork pie hat,
He was handsome and charming - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
He was handsome and charming
And at Los Alamos, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And at Los Alamos,
So he would come into the room - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:17
So he would come into the room