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To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

The way implosionin a nutshell works was they had a solid ballof plutonium, just a solid...

The way implosion
in a nutshell works was they had a solid ball
of plutonium, just a solid sphere of it, about the size of a softball,
maybe a little bit smaller

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The way implosion in a nutshell works was
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they had a solid ball of plutonium,
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just a solid sphere of it,
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about the size of a softball, maybe a little bit smaller.
Duration
12 seconds
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46
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:13
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

Exploring how one man's brilliance, hubris and relentless drive changed the nature of war forever.
And this is encased by tons of high explosives. - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:07
And this is encased by tons of high explosives.
And these high explosives are really specially made, - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:16
And these high explosives are really specially made,
Every angle of this is gonna be being pushed upon - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:08
Every angle of this is gonna be being pushed upon
What you want to do is get this pressure - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:10
What you want to do is get this pressure
If it were asymmetrical, it probably wouldn't work. - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:05
If it were asymmetrical, it probably wouldn't work.
You had to have enough pressure quickly enough - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:13
You had to have enough pressure quickly enough
Every aspect of this is an almost totally new problem. - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:06
Every aspect of this is an almost totally new problem.
It is a technology that would have benefited from - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:05
It is a technology that would have benefited from
CONANT: Oppenheimer was working night and day - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:06
CONANT: Oppenheimer was working night and day
And as the project grew in size, the security service - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:09
And as the project grew in size, the security service
And even though he was beloved and admired - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:20
And even though he was beloved and admired
RHODES: When Oppenheimer was teaching - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:16
RHODES: When Oppenheimer was teaching
He discovered, to his shock, - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:08
He discovered, to his shock,
One of them told me he was living on - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:07
One of them told me he was living on
Oppenheimer was changed by this discovery - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:09
Oppenheimer was changed by this discovery
BIRD: And Oppenheimer sort of naturally, - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:11
BIRD: And Oppenheimer sort of naturally,
CARR: Communism was a very appealing idea in the 1930s. - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:07
CARR: Communism was a very appealing idea in the 1930s.
People didn't know what was going on real time - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:11
People didn't know what was going on real time
What people here in the United States saw instead was, - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:17
What people here in the United States saw instead was,
(crowd cheering) - To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 00:11
(crowd cheering)