Thank you for uploading this documentary. I watched this when it was broadcast by PBS in the summer of 1995, nearly 30 years ago. It's great to be able to watch it again.
@@joeshoe6184no, the transcripts are basically on point to the originals, they’re just different points. Oppenheimer is about the life before during and after the bomb, and the trials and tribulations that came with it, this is about how the bomb was made
My great uncle was Dr. Robert (Bobby) Wilson, and married to my great aunt Jane Wilson. Uncle Bobby knew the ramifications of the bomb and despised it, but he loved science more. He was also the first director of Fermi Labs. I’m incredibly proud of my uncle Bobby.
I saw The Day After Trinity years ago. As you may know, it is an excellent dcoumentary about Oppenheimer and the making of the Bomb. Your Great Uncle figured prominently in the documentary. What he had to say about the anguish he suffered for years later moved me a great deal. He said he was immediately depresed when the Bomb exploded and that depression stayed with him since. That was a very long time. ypur Grand Uncle was interviewed for Day After Trinity was made in 1980, 35 years later. It is a very moving interview in a documentary full of moving interviews. THey were all changed irrevocably at the consequences of the Bomb. Of all the interviewees, the one with your Great Uncle moved me the most and I have never forgotten the impact it made. If you have seen the doc, you should check it out.
A balanced mind will help you realize that forcing your will on other people only serves to make the world a darker place. I can't imagine being proud of a profoundly evil man who killed so many only to fulfill his ego. There is no excuse because nothing evil ever leads to anything good, ever.
I would not agree he was responsible for BUILDING the bomb. He managed the actual development, construction and successful conclusion at Los Alamos. But many significant physicists and engineers built the bomb. It was an inevitability that began a couple of decades earlier
It bears mentioning that in the 1920s and 1930s, Communism had a pretty large (compared to now) following in the US and around the world, and it was considered a possible, viable, system. The horrors of Mao and Stalin, Pol Pot and North Korea were still in the future, some of them far in the future.
I worked with nukes while in the air force and then at sandia after university. It got to the point when they were just mundane to me. I remember the first time I saw a plutonium pit (pu239 alloyed with gallium). It was just a ball of metal a little bigger than a baseball. No glow, no ominous music in the background and other than the sphere being a little.warm it was for anyone to see just some metal. Then one day we were out at the old test site in Nevada that from the air looks like the surface of the moon from almost 1000 weapons tests, and it dawned on me that I was in the room with a material that was just this side of matter and energys equivalence. And the weapons we were dismantling were of the thermonuclear variety which uses a Nagasaki style bomb as a detonator so I had the feeling of being looked at directly by the grim reaper who was just shaking his cloaked head at us
I was recommended this documentary after watching the movie Oppenheimer, and then I found how hilarious and amusing distortion the film has made. Admittedly, I fist paid my attention to this great man for the film, but I won't wtach it once more and go spread the true fact and doc to my friends.
I can't hold myself to recall the reverberation that someone has tagged the film as"INTJs must watch""THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FILM that intellectuals must go", I lmao every time of the every recollection.
If you know how an explosion works and how a nuclear fission reaction works then you will realize that a nuclear fission explosion is not possible. If you don’t then here is a brief overview: Explosions are destructive because of the blast. The blast is caused by the creation and expansion of gases. The bigger the blast then the more destructive power it has, because more gas has been released. For example 1g of TNT creates 1 litre (1,000grams) of gas. Dynamite is 50% more powerful because 1g of it produces 1,500g of gas. The byproducts of a nuclear fission reaction include heat and free neutrons, no gas is produced. Therefore there can be no destructive blast. An overreacting lump of Uranium or Plutonium simply heats up and melts. Nuclear fission is caused by the absorption of free neutrons by atoms of heavy metals such as Uranium and Plutonium. This makes them unstable and they break up into atoms of smaller/lighter elements. This process is called nuclear fission. Neutrons are relatively heavy particles and have no charge. They are heavier than protons and are traveling very fast and so they are difficult to stop. This is why in a nuclear power reactor the free neutrons have to be slowed down significantly so that fission reactions can take place. If not slowed down sufficiently, the neutrons simply fly away. Neutrons need to be slowed down by 10,000 times. This is done by using a moderator either normal light water or heavy water (or carbon). The free neutrons bounce off (scatter) against the hydrogen atoms transferring energy and slowing down in the process just like two billiard balls colliding. It takes several hours for a nuclear power reactor to start to generate significant heat. Nuclear weapons don’t contain a moderator and therefore free neutrons can’t be slowed down and so they don’t get captured by the very large nucleus of the heavy metal and thus fission does not occur. The probabilities of absorption and scattering of free neutrons of different speeds/energies is available from the Neutron Cross Section Tables which are publicly available via IAEA refer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_cross_section Nuclear fission explosions are therefore a fiction. Now there is no need for you to read my book “Oppenheimer’s Deadly Toys- The Nuclear Weapons Hoax” although you might learn a bit more if you do. www.amazon.com/s?k=oppenheimers+deadly+toys&crid=NO3WT5PGME78&sprefix=oppenheimers+deadly+toys%2Caps%2C282&ref=nb_sb_noss
@@robertschlemmer5039 the nuclear fission reaction needs to get started before any other laws of physics apply, think about neutron cross sections and rewrite
@@miladmoghadam2318 What are you even talking about??? Musk would ruin this country within the first month. Keep your insane musings to yourself, nutjob.
So u think of biden as an old man and Trump as crazy? Why is Trump crazy, is it the thought of actually enforcing the laws of the country. Stopping an invasion in the south that u liberals have not only approved but put on steroids. Problem is, those who get their news from government run organizations and social media have believed everything they’ve told u. Just go to Covid to see those who waited every week to see what the government would allow u to do, those are the same folks who spewed Russia Russia Russia every week realizing by the time it was disproven, it wouldn’t matter. China doesn’t hold a candle to the threat ABC, NBC,CBS, MSNBC , Google , Facebook etc pose to democracy in this country. Heck the liberals have stopped holding elections and now just appoint another lifelong politician to run for President. It’s sick
Thank you so very, VERY much for putting this superb documentary on You Tube.
You're welcome. It has gotten a tremendous reception.
Thank you for uploading this documentary. I watched this when it was broadcast by PBS in the summer of 1995, nearly 30 years ago. It's great to be able to watch it again.
Glad that you enjoyed it.
The movie Oppenehimer? Forget it. You want the story of how the bomb was created, watch this documentary.
I agree completely.
Right.
But Oppenheimer is about a character assassination and not about building a bomb.
@@user-dh6bj2me5p Good point
Is the movie factually inaccurate?
@@joeshoe6184no, the transcripts are basically on point to the originals, they’re just different points. Oppenheimer is about the life before during and after the bomb, and the trials and tribulations that came with it, this is about how the bomb was made
Thank you so much for making this available!
Cool Hand Luke, most welcome. "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
paul frees doing narration!
Thank you very.much for uploading this. Very best wishes
Most welcome. Best to you.
An incredible documentary! One that draws you in and never lets go. Thank you for uploading.
You're welcome.
This is a great documentary. I've had it recorded on VHS since the 1990's
So, so much great video is on VHS.
My great uncle was Dr. Robert (Bobby) Wilson, and married to my great aunt Jane Wilson. Uncle Bobby knew the ramifications of the bomb and despised it, but he loved science more. He was also the first director of Fermi Labs. I’m incredibly proud of my uncle Bobby.
I saw The Day After Trinity years ago. As you may know, it is an excellent dcoumentary about Oppenheimer and the making of the Bomb. Your Great Uncle figured prominently in the documentary. What he had to say about the anguish he suffered for years later moved me a great deal. He said he was immediately depresed when the Bomb exploded and that depression stayed with him since. That was a very long time. ypur Grand Uncle was interviewed for Day After Trinity was made in 1980, 35 years later. It is a very moving interview in a documentary full of moving interviews. THey were all changed irrevocably at the consequences of the Bomb. Of all the interviewees, the one with your Great Uncle moved me the most and I have never forgotten the impact it made. If you have seen the doc, you should check it out.
A balanced mind will help you realize that forcing your will on other people only serves to make the world a darker place. I can't imagine being proud of a profoundly evil man who killed so many only to fulfill his ego. There is no excuse because nothing evil ever leads to anything good, ever.
Bragger 🙄🙄🙄
Great documentary
The RUclips Nanny actually censored 0:02:50 in its subtitles. What a world we [still] live in.
I would not agree he was responsible for BUILDING the bomb. He managed the actual development, construction and successful conclusion at Los Alamos. But many significant physicists and engineers built the bomb. It was an inevitability that began a couple of decades earlier
wtf are these comments saying?? i think this movie compliments nolan’s “oppenheimer” well
I think there are agendas and confirmation bias' at work..
It bears mentioning that in the 1920s and 1930s, Communism had a pretty large (compared to now) following in the US and around the world, and it was considered a possible, viable, system. The horrors of Mao and Stalin, Pol Pot and North Korea were still in the future, some of them far in the future.
Excellent, excellent upload.
The movie "Fat Man and Little Boy" is good, and goes in the personal lives of the Los Alamos staff.
Saw it when I was 16 on PBS back in 80-81. Guess I’ll give it another look see.
And so I did. What a predicament we are in.
Narrator was Paul Frees….most prolific narrator of the 1950’s, surprising he was still working in 1980’s….
Also did Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion!
Thank you!
You bet!
Amazing doc!!!
He was not responsible. The president was responsible
the narration says he and Chevalier were 'close friends' -- maybe in Chevalier's mind!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_Chevalier
The blind girl who saw the flash of the Trinity explosion I will never forget.
Very interesting information If you are going to watch Christopher Nolans Film Oppenheimer❤😢
there is no hope for humanity. it's gonna get way worse than this
It takes a village to raise a problem child.
I worked with nukes while in the air force and then at sandia after university. It got to the point when they were just mundane to me. I remember the first time I saw a plutonium pit (pu239 alloyed with gallium). It was just a ball of metal a little bigger than a baseball. No glow, no ominous music in the background and other than the sphere being a little.warm it was for anyone to see just some metal. Then one day we were out at the old test site in Nevada that from the air looks like the surface of the moon from almost 1000 weapons tests, and it dawned on me that I was in the room with a material that was just this side of matter and energys equivalence. And the weapons we were dismantling were of the thermonuclear variety which uses a Nagasaki style bomb as a detonator so I had the feeling of being looked at directly by the grim reaper who was just shaking his cloaked head at us
The video is not about you, stop bragging 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I was recommended this documentary after watching the movie Oppenheimer, and then I found how hilarious and amusing distortion the film has made. Admittedly, I fist paid my attention to this great man for the film, but I won't wtach it once more and go spread the true fact and doc to my friends.
I can't hold myself to recall the reverberation that someone has tagged the film as"INTJs must watch""THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FILM that intellectuals must go", I lmao every time of the every recollection.
Your comment makes no sense. What "distortion" are you referring to?
Why do you find the two so incompatible?
Any andhbhakt's are here....😅
Kteh tv 54 stories the television see way san jose😉
Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds. -Oppie
It’s amazing how bad a film Oppenheimer is
Paul Frees? Sounds an awful lot like Orson Welles.
1:28:09.
Why must ye all Bragg about yourselves, attention seeking??? 🙄🙄🙄🙄
You're just jealous you don't have a family member who worked on the bomb.
If you know how an explosion works and how a nuclear fission reaction works then you will realize that a nuclear fission explosion is not possible. If you don’t then here is a brief overview:
Explosions are destructive because of the blast. The blast is caused by the creation and expansion of gases. The bigger the blast then the more destructive power it has, because more gas has been released. For example 1g of TNT creates 1 litre (1,000grams) of gas. Dynamite is 50% more powerful because 1g of it produces 1,500g of gas.
The byproducts of a nuclear fission reaction include heat and free neutrons, no gas is produced. Therefore there can be no destructive blast. An overreacting lump of Uranium or Plutonium simply heats up and melts.
Nuclear fission is caused by the absorption of free neutrons by atoms of heavy metals such as Uranium and Plutonium. This makes them unstable and they break up into atoms of smaller/lighter elements. This process is called nuclear fission. Neutrons are relatively heavy particles and have no charge. They are heavier than protons and are traveling very fast and so they are difficult to stop. This is why in a nuclear power reactor the free neutrons have to be slowed down significantly so that fission reactions can take place.
If not slowed down sufficiently, the neutrons simply fly away.
Neutrons need to be slowed down by 10,000 times. This is done by using a moderator either normal light water or heavy water (or carbon). The free neutrons bounce off (scatter) against the hydrogen atoms transferring energy and slowing down in the process just like two billiard balls colliding. It takes several hours for a nuclear power reactor to start to generate significant heat.
Nuclear weapons don’t contain a moderator and therefore free neutrons can’t be slowed down and so they don’t get captured by the very large nucleus of the heavy metal and thus fission does not occur.
The probabilities of absorption and scattering of free neutrons of different speeds/energies is available from the Neutron Cross Section Tables which are publicly available via IAEA refer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_cross_section
Nuclear fission explosions are therefore a fiction.
Now there is no need for you to read my book “Oppenheimer’s Deadly Toys- The Nuclear Weapons Hoax” although you might learn a bit more if you do.
www.amazon.com/s?k=oppenheimers+deadly+toys&crid=NO3WT5PGME78&sprefix=oppenheimers+deadly+toys%2Caps%2C282&ref=nb_sb_noss
Always one know it all bragger 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Someone slept through physics class.
Look up Charles Law. Think about implications and rewrite.
@@robertschlemmer5039 the nuclear fission reaction needs to get started before any other laws of physics apply, think about neutron cross sections and rewrite
Commuis
I think it had better Elon Musk be the president of the USA not an old man or another crazy one
Well since he wasn't born here thats impossible. Learn your civics.
@@edl1973 So the truth is hard even for Americans!
@@miladmoghadam2318
What are you even talking about??? Musk would ruin this country within the first month. Keep your insane musings to yourself, nutjob.
So u think of biden as an old man and Trump as crazy? Why is Trump crazy, is it the thought of actually enforcing the laws of the country. Stopping an invasion in the south that u liberals have not only approved but put on steroids. Problem is, those who get their news from government run organizations and social media have believed everything they’ve told u. Just go to Covid to see those who waited every week to see what the government would allow u to do, those are the same folks who spewed Russia Russia Russia every week realizing by the time it was disproven, it wouldn’t matter. China doesn’t hold a candle to the threat ABC, NBC,CBS, MSNBC , Google , Facebook etc pose to democracy in this country. Heck the liberals have stopped holding elections and now just appoint another lifelong politician to run for President. It’s sick
Awesome
Why? The banality of evil .... that's why.
I loved this... Now, if I ever do watch "The Movie" I can just wrap up in a story without being attached to the facts..
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