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Well, that was the very same week
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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

Well, that wasthe very same week that he briefed the bombardiers that were going to be on...

Well, that was
the very same week that he briefed the bombardiers that were going to be on the
mission to drop those bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
as it turned out, and he was instructing them in a sort of coldly
intellectual fashion at exactly what altitude
the bomb should be detonated so that it would have the
maximum destructive power, and that it should be dropped
on the center of a city

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Well, that was the very same week
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that he briefed the bombardiers
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that were going to be on the mission to drop those bombs
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on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as it turned out,
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and he was instructing them
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in a sort of coldly intellectual fashion
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at exactly what altitude the bomb should be detonated
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so that it would have the maximum destructive power,
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and that it should be dropped on the center of a city.
Duration
37 seconds
Views
47
Timestamp in Movie
00:51:20
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.
So he both understood the ethical consequences - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
So he both understood the ethical consequences
- And so in some unpleasant sense - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
- And so in some unpleasant sense
And you can certainly say - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And you can certainly say
They weren't really even sure - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
They weren't really even sure
And so if you'd waited two weeks and said, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And so if you'd waited two weeks and said,
And so we built it, we're gonna use it, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:28
And so we built it, we're gonna use it,
- And after Hiroshima, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
- And after Hiroshima,
Oppenheimer never felt that he made a mistake - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
Oppenheimer never felt that he made a mistake
And the thing that Japanese journalists - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
And the thing that Japanese journalists
Oppenheimer still say, "No, I don't." - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
Oppenheimer still say, "No, I don't."
He was a very famous man, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
He was a very famous man,
- And it's very notable that after the war, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
- And it's very notable that after the war,
He did no original science after the war. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
He did no original science after the war.
He still kept his directorship - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:28
He still kept his directorship
- 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