Nuclear Turning Point: The Birth Of The Atomic Age | The Real Oppenheimer | Timeline
As the leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer played a significant role in the development of the atomic bomb. This documentary examines Oppenheimer's private and professional life, from his early years to his involvement with nuclear physics and his later advocacy for nuclear weapons controls.
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That man has to be one of the most internally fractured and tortured human beings that's ever lived. To have that level of intelligence, that inherent grasp of ethics and compassion and then have a direct hand in the unprecedented, horrific deaths of 100's of thousands and then see the horrors of those that survived the blast... to try and live with that. Holy F.
Yes, he was so intense, mystical and into literature, and also ethereal!
Guy Walters in it : automatic thumbs up
Oppenheimer ended up regretting his contribution. Love World History. Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻
But It was thanks to his nukes that millions including Japan itself was saved.
@@Yk1000-No. Not true.
The amplitude of the musical audio is much greater than the narrator's audio. It becomes a little annoying.
cry about it
I have read the book , and I really enjoyed. One fact that impresses me is that the fear of a chain reaction was from a few scientists, the most famous is Enrico Fermi . By the book, the other scientists were moderate on that argument .
I grew up in the Los Alamos area where J Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues made the first atomic bomb. I was lucky enough to be acquainted with many of the original scientists of the Manhattan Project. Los Alamos in those days was a very small town where people knew each other. Brilliant minds--but very little common sense!
My God Mother, my Mother's best friend, at the age of 19, was in the records section of the Los Alamos labs during the war. She had meet Oppy and Gen. Groves.
It was scary to think when they tested the bomb they weren't 100% sure about causing a chain reaction. And Oppenheimer thought they wouldn't make more and more powerful nukes. And If it's true that Truman believed the Soviets would never get the bomb.
It seems that Oppenheimer made the bomb out of scientific curiosity and it's importance at the time. He did not make because he liked what it did. That's why I like him. He was so smart that he knew the outcome of this discovery before a single device was used. In short, he knew the cold war would happen and that he had truly opened pandora's box, but for a "good" cause. Sort of.
if he was so smart then how did he allow himself to being exploited by usa government ? if he were really as smart as you say, then he would not end up being powerless in his own project that he had ethical doubts about. Maybe you just want him to be really smaeet as a reason to worship like an idol
@@tawan20082008 Not an idol. Just nice to know that he at least had reservations about he was doing. I don't know that others in his position would have. That's all.
@@tawan20082008 USA government used him because he was American. Born in New York.
What do you do when you are a scientist and you are told that your government needs you? Would you say no? Especially when you are told that the enemy is working on a similar project?
@@user-cy5li2zp9zya it’s easy to say all this when it’s not you being point on the spot. Don’t matter what you say tawan has made up his mind about all this and nothing will change that.
This videos shows me, no matter how honest one is, people can hate you for reasons that do not match your morals, and in that ignorant loathing, can forbid one from reaching their full potential by being forbidden from accessing tools due to someone else deeming them unworthy of trust. Oppenheimer, how much I relate to his views and experiences.
You don’t know who is honest and you can’t just trust their words. When neck tattoo guy shows up on his motorcycle to pick up your daughter it’s a good idea not to trust regardless of what he says. If you want to keep your national security from rhe communists it’s a really good idea not to give secrets to a communist. This I what Lincoln would have called self evident.
Man’s pursuit of folly has no bounds.
Great work!
Any discussion of nuclear weapons always provokes in me the saying "just because we can, doesn't mean we should."
Well presented
R.I.P
The message is, be afraid. Made to keep you living in fear.
Anyone know what music is being used in this documentary 10:11
Can’t wait to see it. I’ve always been interested in the subject
Am I the only one who thinks he looks and sounds like Mr Rogers?
Why are some spots blurred?
Oppenheimer was a very complicated man
Who isn’t
That AI art you used for the thumbnail doesn’t even look like Oppenheimer
It must be different now or something cause there's no issue with the thumbnail
What music is used ???
The whole story is about “we have to do this first before THEY do it”.
nope, that’s just what you imagined or what you want it to be about
@@tawan20082008 Just like the race to get to the moon first.
That is correct. There was a great concern over the progress of the German atomic program. Oppenheimer stated that a plant would be no less than one city block long, could be hidden on the grounds of an industrial facility and could not likely be identified by visual inspection. He also said that a company like I.G. Farben could produce a bomb. I.G.. Farben was the world's largest chemical cartel at the time, and is virtually unknown today. Source: Spying on the Bomb by Jeffrey T. Richelson.
I agree. The intelligence showed that the Nazis were developing the bomb which is how The Manhattan Project started.
Narcissistic personality disorder is about two things only 🌎 power as well as destruction plain & simple
We thank him for the MIRV.
Also, I don't think there is a human alive that wants to be remembered for having revolutionized mass murder, even if it's the order of the day.
you must not know much about people
Hope we never have to use any ever again Old Cold Warrior
Oppenheimer was in the right place at the right time? Talk about diminishing his contribution to the Manhattan project with a statement like that
The real Oppenheimer Shows a photo of Cillian Murphy 😭😭
No word of Lise Meitner ? Just Oppenheimer ?
What? Why would they need to mention others? This is a documentary about Oppenheimer.
There was a slight, minor concern that atomic weapons would make the earth catch fire which was dismissed by everyone. More people were killed in air raids on Tokyo and other cities every night for months before Nagasaki. Over 150,000 killed in the bombing of Tokyo about a week before Nagasaki.
That's right. A scientist on the project realized that an atomic chain reaction might ignite the atmosphere, followed by the oceans. How that problem was resolved is not known. And yes, the United States could have fire bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They did not have to use atomic bombs for the same destructive effect.
@@user-cy5li2zp9z … Absolute rubbish. Would you have written the letters to millions and millions of mothers explaining why their sons were killed in Indonesia, Burma, China, Malaya, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Siam, Japan and numerous other places because your president refused to use a weapon that would have ended the war within 3 days of its use? Would you have stood in front of those mothers? It was projected that over a million Allied soldiers would have died in Japan alone then there were all the other places. Not counting the estimated 3 to 7 MILLION Japanese deaths! The arguments against not using the bombs are spurious and go against logic.
@@Ubique2927What original research have you done? Do you think everyone was for the dropping of the bombs? "Among the Navy brass, feelings ran strong against the bombings. Admiral Ernest King, the chief of naval operations, told his co-author that he did not like the atomic bomb “or any part of it,” and said that the air-sea blockade would have been enough to force a Japanese surrender. Several leading air commanders, including Generals Hap Arnold and Curtis LeMay, said that the atomic bombs were unnecessary because conventional bombing had already brought Japan to its knees. Remarks of this sort can be understood in the context of internal military politics and budgetary positioning. Yet it is clear that many military leaders thought the atomic bombings unjustified and even immoral. Admiral Bill Leahy, the senior most active-duty US officer of the Second World War, left a scathing passage in his memoir, charging that the United States had “adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying woman and children.” '
Wow
Ah yes history
All those poor people and Animals dead, may they rest in peace.
Little boy dropped
THE END OF HUMANITY
There is nothing new, under the sun...
Yup too much music in this documentary
They never mention that Japan did not immediately surrender. However the day AFTER Russia delared war they DID surrender!
Some say that it was the A bomb that ended the Second World War by persuading Japan to surrender but a closer look at the facts suggest that Stalin's invasion of Manchuria had something to do with the Japanese decision
historían over here
They didn't want smoke with the Soviets but still I'm sure those "cruel bombs" had something to do with it
Yes, Stalin overran Manchuria in a series of attacks. The plan was to land on Hokkaido. I think the Americans were not too keen on that.
One of the narrator has let down the presentation....
Fantastic.
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"there's this man not so far from u with his finger on this trigger and if he pulls for trigger" - well, there's you, not so far from this man with your finger on this trigger and if you pull for trigger... it works both ways you know. there was no war in ukraine before united states orchestrated the 2014 coup in ukraine and tried to make ukraine join nato. what do you think would america do if tomorrow mexican president says that mexico decided to create a military alliance with russia and china and deploy russian nuclear missiles next to united states border? how long would that be before usa invades mexico?
I tend to take offence at any person who describes themselves as some kind of God. The atomic bomb was the culmination of thousand of peoples work and effort from different nations including Canada and Britain Oppenheimer didnt make the bomb all by himself in his basement
No, he didn't, but the British had some trouble. They did not detonate an atomic bomb until 1952.
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Unwatchable. Sound and music are awful. I lasted 1:56.
😂😂😂 after he end the war and help us... U.S.A try to judge him 😂😂😂... Good on you America 🇺🇸 shame...
05:00 Leo Size-ard?? 🤔
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A cultist?
Was he a Christian? Nasty cult that one is.
Y’all quit complaining about the music. a bunch of cry babies 😂 watch something else if it bothers you that bad
Well, if this video isn't s horrendous piece of American self-justification for murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. And then you even try to justify it, "there were no communications." What a lie, the japanese had already made overtures via Portugal and other countries, looking for an honourable surrender. Pretending they didn't surrender to justify your criminal actions make me puke, it's so disgusting.
Japanese soldiers slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Usually with brutality never seen in human history, and they had no interest in stopping. Do you care about that or are you just a modern day revisionist?
this film is overly proud of its “scientific” whatever, and totally not acknowledging the war crime that happened in hiroshima and nagasaki . Japan committed many war crimes too, but definitely so did usa with hiroshima nagasaki
A Jew without Torah is misguided!
I don’t listen to documentaries with music. Facts only please.
You are missing out, Battlefield Vietnam has one of the most endering themes I've ever heard, but most can do without the music
ohhh, we are so sad to hear that! we will change everything for you ! is there anything else we can do for you ? because you’re so “important” to everything
Only the biggest fool will refuse a chance for more knowledge based on silly things like this.
Thats easy fixed, press cc and turn your farq in volume down Richard Cranium.
Poor boy. 🎻
the movie sucked.
I thought it was good. I can see that many found it boring.
it was like watching fear and loathing in las vegas@mulattovanguard
The entire planet disagrees with you, perhaps the issue is...with you?
it only won more awards than any other film , you should have spent all your savings on it at the theaterr
So you're a simpleton... thanks for letting the world know.
Jew
There are no more Jews. After the Romans forced them to stop sacrificing animals to their "god", the religion of Judaism ceased to exist. What exists now is a fake Judaism in which sin is fully permitted alongside with the blasphemous Christians and Muslims.
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Yes he was and there's nothing wrong with that, get a grip and stop being offensive.
You're obnoxious
I never liked the movies Of nuclear war during In 2022 Having nightmares of The Nuclear War, World War 3 & Nuclear Weapons and today In 2024 I still having nightmares of this ****!.