As a New mexican, the work of Oppenheimer is a familiar tale, the work that was conducted forever changed New Mexico. Los Alamos still stands today and has some of the brightest minds still working on who knows what. New Mexico still has a huge military presence to this day.
I mean...Oppenheimer reportedly had a marketing budget of 100 million dollars. Yes, the internet is helping, but the marketing for this film has been huge...
@@piyushmate3837 Marketing budget are never calculated into the film's budget. That's why movies generally need to earn back double of what the film actually cost to turn a profit. That's to account for the marketing costs.
I watched a very good documentary about it. The men there were working 12 hour shifts from MON. to SAT. They were studying Advanced, Physics, Chemistry and Math like a "crash course". Fun began from SAT. evening to SUN. midnight.
Fun fact: my grandfather (who was a surveyor and later worked for the New Mexico State Highway Department) helped design the street layout for Los Alamos. As it was all top secret and did not officially exist, he of course couldn’t tell anyone about it. My uncle remembers sitting in their backyard on Escalante Street in Santa Fe and seeing odd lights in the skies over Los Alamos. They didn’t know what it was, but at least my grandfather knew it was military and COULDN’T TALK ABOUT IT.
My OTHER grandfather was a brakeman on the Santa Fe Aitchison and Topeka Railroad at the time, and they had a route that took them from Tucumcari south into Carrizozo (county seat of Lincoln County. Yes, THAT Lincoln County). One evening whole traveling south, they saw what they thought had to be an explosion from a plane crash because it was so bright. They thought they were going to come up on the wreckage, but saw nothing. It wasn’t until after Hiroshima that they realized they had seen the effects of the Trinity blast.
@@devvratarya1 If he did, I am unaware of it, but I doubt it. He was many MANY miles from the blast site, and the radiation cloud floated well north of where they were.
Oppenheimer really was right with his famous quote about atomic bombs. But isn't it even more shocking that people continued to work and test on atomic bombs like the one they dropped on the Amchitka? This had some really devastating effects, and they even filmed it moving the soil. Our crew talked about that and the animals that were home on the island. This is def something worth getting informed about.
@@nuclearferrets Nuclear energy is the best energy source ever conceived. And just counting the deaths of all nuclear explosions ever, it doesn't come close to the deaths that would've otherwise occurred if, say, the Us had been forced to invade the Japanese home islands.
I just saw the movie today it changed my perspective forever on what around uncertain future is. Oppenheimer opposed the use and development of nuclear weapons like the H bomb I cannot imagine how horrible he felt for him creating one of the first and only things that could actually destroy mankind once you watch the movie and think deep about its gonna change your perspective on nuclear weapons forever. At the end of the movie, when he was speaking to Albert Einstein, he said something that would forever hunt me. "I believe we already destroyed the world," as he said that it showed the uses and destruction of ICBMs that he didn't wanna be see or developed, but it happened. It sent a chill down my spin. I can not express how much that movie changed me. Because once you watch it and think you deeply about everything behind it or what it represents. You'll be hunted or changed, but if you ignore it, you will be without even knowing, and that's the most terrifying part.
Actually, though Einstein signed the letter, he did not write any of it. The warning came from Leo Szilard with Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner, Einstein was just brought in to make the letter be taken seriously.
From the Pulitzer-winning biography American Prometheus, the Los Alamos town (dubbed The Hill) eventually grew to 5,000 civilians (and family members) who worked on the project, flanked by 2,000 military police who guarded them.
@@crew_the3rd I guess you haven't read that deep into it. The whole point of the Manhattan Project was to keep it a secret. In that, they were successful against the Axis powers, but not the Soviets. The military and scientists were substantially at odds with each other there, particularly in these matters. It's remote location was a double-sided sword. Relatives couldn't visit. Workers couldn't talk to spouses about work. Those inside couldn't travel more than 100 miles away, once a month. Anywhere in that area, counterintelligence was posted. Mail was censored. Voting was disallowed. All writings were classified. Scientists caught being handled by the Soviets were drafted elsewhere, dismissed, or brought up on charges of espionage. When Oppenheimer left Los Alamos at any time, he was tailed by counterintelligence. Around then and thereafter, scientists were/are expected to moderate themselves, for the sake of secrecy. This in itself is a kind of prison. So yes, it is that deep.
That first Trinity snapshot is something else. The sheer size of this plasma ball... 0.016 second. How such a small payload can deploy such massive amount of energy is truly mesmerizing.
Every news source on RUclips has come out with a video on Oppenheimer’s life ahead of the movie, and I’ve actually enjoyed learning the history of his life, the time, and the real-world implications before seeing the film 🙌🏻
I lived in Los Alamos in my teen years and went through junior high and high school there. This was long after the residential townsite had ceased to be a closed city*, though the lab’s technical areas were (and are) of course normally closed to all visitors except on very special occasions. (I got to take advantage of some of those occasions.) * And yes, this means that if you are curious about Los Alamos, you can visit there as a tourist, no special permission needed.
Indigenous ppl lived in the fallout zone of the tests and had leukemia for generations, too. Watch John Pilger’s The Coming War with China (2014) doc for how our atomic bomb tests impacted indigenous ppl of the Marshall Islands, as well 🥺
Okay. So we’re talking about Oppenheimer now huh? I gotta tell you how faithful the set of Los Alamos in the movie was to real life. The movie showed meticulously (if not accurately) what was in the work and how did they build it. The most unforgettable part of it was the Trinity field test scene. Like oh my God. I could not forget how it sounded and looked like.
It would’ve been nice if this story was a little more nuanced and talked about the city that was bulldozed, the people that were uprooted and the diseases they caught because of the the experiments and lack of care for their lives.
MANY families lived in the area and were forced out. They were "compensated" but below market value - and Hispanics at a lower rate than whites. Some were given nothing at all. It is another story of the U.S. displacing marginal populations with no regard to "democracy" or human rights. "All's fair in love and war" and our government buys into that wholeheartedly.
@@TitusRex why though. If you're really interested in the topic, a Hollywood production won't give you anything relevant - instead, you hear of good old McCarthyism forever and ever.
The Los Alamos lab took over the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite boys boarding school. It already had housing and a basic infrastructure, but importantly VERY isolated.
The Canada and french connection. We don't like to include ourselves, but Canada played a significant part in the research and supply of some of the uranium/plutonium for nuclear projects. This included labs from McGill/ McMaster/Cambridge and many more universities who had experiments in Montreal, Chalk-River and many more. This was truly an allied effort. Canada was part of pioneering much of the work from Rutherford from early 1890's.
@@Samouraimoh its about being humble and not forgetting. Less we forget, the impact of war is terrible. Of note, chalkriver has been one of the biggest sources of medical isotopes. That i can be proud of.
Since the new film Oppenheimer pops up everywhere…but it’s good though for everyone to know about how nuclear bombs where invented and specifically how it’s a threat to our own existence and even Oppenheimer shared this opinion after its invention. Yet the people in power and worldleaders wouldn’t listen. Since then the world we know almost didn’t exist anymore due to a few events that almost destroyed it
I've read three or four books written by physicist Richard Feynman. In those books, he discusses his time in Los Alamos, and some of the lifestyle issues and problems there while the team worked on the Manhattan Project. This video adds even more to that story. Thanks !
@@metfan999I tried to read it years ago and found him to be incredibly obnoxious. I might have to give it another shot bc I still hear people raving about that book.
Aside from all the "Barbenheimer" jokes & memes , I am legit starting to become more & more interested in Oppenheimer's story & this Vox vid has shed more light on it. Real talk that little jiggle at the end was legit creppy
As someone who lives in Philippines... that manhattan project liberated our ancestors during the war... prevented millions of death... i dont know if other filipinos share my view but I like to believe it is the most factual one
There were also some songs from Oak Ridge, in fact a whole musical written for its 25th anniversary which included similar songs to the Los Alamon Lament, though the timing of that lament makes it especially powerful.
Reminder, they weren't necessarily super "remote", they were occupying Native American tribal lands - like the Nez Perce, Yakama, Umatilla. Not only were the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki sacrificed, so were the ancestral lands. Colonialism is a disease that destroys all.
My question is bereft of atomic bomb activity. Why in the first place was the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite boys boarding school, existed in a VERY isolated location.
Two amusing anecdotes from my home town: The "Ashley's Pond" shown on the one map is named after the man who owned the Boy's Ranch that got bought out. His name was Ashley Pond, so the local joke is that the pond's full name is Ashley Pond's Pond, or Ashley's Pond squared when you live in a town full of scientists. Also there's a letter in the historical museum there from Sears & Roebuck replying to a woman who wrote asking for their catalog. The letter said we don't know what you're doing with our catalogs but we've sent over 100 to this P.O Box and we aren't sending any more.
His role in this has been overblown. This took thousands of people. Leslie Groves played a much bigger part in actually achieving it. Without his organisational talent and contact with private industry it would never have happened. He was an expert project manager. This Oppenheimer fixation is just hype.
And brought peace for us for centuries. Look at the US, which is obsessed with war. Without the atomic bomb, they would've bombed a lot of countries like Iran, Russia and others. This special bomb is the main reason, there is only a proxy war between the US and Russia, no direct conflict.
@@jamesjross the intellectuals made it happen, Oppenheimer had a huge part in choosing the colleagues to work on the project and it was his scientific breakthrough that helped make it happen. Read more and you'll see.
I went to Los Alamos last year for research and got to tour the current lab stretch. The calm and beauty of the radius and the neighboring towns really resonated with why Oppenheimer must’ve chosen Los Alamos and not just because of its remoteness (so remote I couldn’t use uber eats at the hotel i stayed at). Aside from the awesome (rare and exclusive) opportunity to see the current works involving isotopes, the hikes provided extraordinary views. Would truly love to be back but in a vacation manner. After this film, many will surely want to visit and hopefully with respect.
@@AK-pq7wb forgive me for sounding insensitive; i wasnt trying to ignore my privilege and i def know that this isnt a problem many will share nor should it even be a problem at all… my only reasoning for why i included this is since i was at a hotel nearby nothing without a way to travel by myself and only could in groups which wasnt always the only times id want to eat (i dont think its wrong to want to eat more than the three general times in a day).. regardless, i do agree that this isnt the best way to indicate the remoteness of a place but i just wanted to include my own modern day experience
Just imagine oppenheimers thoughts and feelings for the rest of his life after the trinity tests. He died in 1967 during the cold war so he died thinking the world was gonna end because of his brilliant mind.
My great grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project, although from what I understand he might have had a majorly minor role in the production of making the bomb itself.
Such a good video. Hits just the right beats. For example, highlighting (but not belaboring) the fact that more than 20% of Los Alamos women were having babies (far, far above the national average). The Nolan film and great pieces like this prepare Americans (and Westerners, in general) to confront the increasingly unavoidable and increasingly unstable situation in Russia.
With all of the Oppenheimer hype, it is fun to my home town in the lime light. I lived in Los Alamos for my High School years. They probably have my graduation photo somewhere, as they had all of the seniors for the past as well. That pond in map is still there near downtown. (The Lab was moved to a southern mesa allowing the town to grow) It is a nice place to visit if you can.
Only existing structure? First, the ranch school was comprised of several buildings. Second many other ranches existed in the area, many belonging to enthnically Hispanic peoples who were paid far less for their lands than their white neighbors.
First learn that Hispanic ain’t a race or an ethnic background. Those people weren’t ethnically looking Hispanic if they were they would of looked like there colonizers the Spaniards, many of those Hispanos were of native descent living on land of their ancestors that the Spaniards stole, technically all those Hispanos have native ancestry not matter how deep their Spanish ancestry goes so technically they were on past native land owned by whitewashed mixed race Hispanic natives, their was also many hispanos in Los alamos working there. Luis Alvarez who was of Spanish speaking descent was whiter than his Italian counterpart Enrico Fermi
I used to work for the office of the attorney general office in Austin TX in the mail center and we received different mail from different companies and several were the Los alamos national laboratory
I hope the film includes the mathematician Jon von Neumann. He would drive everyday from Los Alamos to Albuquerque intentionally swaying side to side on the highway on his way to get lunch at his favorite restaurant.
theres actully a small court yard were the po box was registerd and right behind it was a small post office were all the people send to los alomos went first to be told were to go and what they would have to do
I work with people who worked at Los Alamos after the war and all of them either have asbestosis or cancer or both. The labs poisioned half of northern New Mexico's population. Most of them were poor hispanic people and the labs did virtually nothing to protect them. Even secretaries and janitors got asbestos or beryllium exposure, and a large number were irradiated. This went on into the 90s. Amazing things have been developed at Los Alamos but it all came at the expense of low-income hispanic and native american people who didn't have a lot of opportunities. Now they are all chronically ill. It honestly irritates me that people are so into the Manhattan Project because of this movie when it has brought so much death and illness. Is this really worth celebrating?
As a New mexican, the work of Oppenheimer is a familiar tale, the work that was conducted forever changed New Mexico. Los Alamos still stands today and has some of the brightest minds still working on who knows what. New Mexico still has a huge military presence to this day.
No doubt. Moved on to alian tech.
interesting
los alamos is not that secretive. They even hire non-americans routinely
@linkinlinkinlinkin654 not all positions require security clearence. The world will always need ditch diggers
@@themousebouse Richard Feynman got his start there as manual laborer, and went on to win the Nobel Prize.
nolan doesn't need to spend money for marketing his movie, the entire internet is doing it for him
Probably because it's the last great movie for awhile
@@tylerdurden788 Until Dune Part 2 in November.
Edit: Dune Part 2 has been confirmed to be delayed to March 15, 2024. It's a sad day people.
I mean...Oppenheimer reportedly had a marketing budget of 100 million dollars. Yes, the internet is helping, but the marketing for this film has been huge...
@@FreakieFanthe movies whole budget is 100m according to wiki
@@piyushmate3837
Marketing budget are never calculated into the film's budget. That's why movies generally need to earn back double of what the film actually cost to turn a profit. That's to account for the marketing costs.
I once met a veteran whose dad worked on the Manhattan project. He spoke to me about living in that city as a child. It was a cool conversation.
this is a cool comment
tell us more😀
awesome bro
"Cool"? Its literal human history bruv, its fookin awesome
I watched a very good documentary about it. The men there were working 12 hour shifts from MON. to SAT. They were studying Advanced, Physics, Chemistry and Math like a "crash course". Fun began from SAT. evening to SUN. midnight.
Fun fact: my grandfather (who was a surveyor and later worked for the New Mexico State Highway Department) helped design the street layout for Los Alamos. As it was all top secret and did not officially exist, he of course couldn’t tell anyone about it. My uncle remembers sitting in their backyard on Escalante Street in Santa Fe and seeing odd lights in the skies over Los Alamos. They didn’t know what it was, but at least my grandfather knew it was military and COULDN’T TALK ABOUT IT.
My OTHER grandfather was a brakeman on the Santa Fe Aitchison and Topeka Railroad at the time, and they had a route that took them from Tucumcari south into Carrizozo (county seat of Lincoln County. Yes, THAT Lincoln County). One evening whole traveling south, they saw what they thought had to be an explosion from a plane crash because it was so bright. They thought they were going to come up on the wreckage, but saw nothing. It wasn’t until after Hiroshima that they realized they had seen the effects of the Trinity blast.
Did ur grandfather have any effect from bomb radiation ?
@@devvratarya1 If he did, I am unaware of it, but I doubt it. He was many MANY miles from the blast site, and the radiation cloud floated well north of where they were.
awesome bro
Very interesting
Oppenheimer really was right with his famous quote about atomic bombs. But isn't it even more shocking that people continued to work and test on atomic bombs like the one they dropped on the Amchitka? This had some really devastating effects, and they even filmed it moving the soil. Our crew talked about that and the animals that were home on the island. This is def something worth getting informed about.
but isnt the same nuclear reaction that also makes energy? there is always to sides of the same coin
@@ReyZar666 nuclear power isn’t the “good side” of that coin. And if it was, it wouldn’t outweigh the terror of an atomic bomb.
@@nuclearferrets Nuclear energy is the best energy source ever conceived. And just counting the deaths of all nuclear explosions ever, it doesn't come close to the deaths that would've otherwise occurred if, say, the Us had been forced to invade the Japanese home islands.
I just saw the movie today it changed my perspective forever on what around uncertain future is. Oppenheimer opposed the use and development of nuclear weapons like the H bomb I cannot imagine how horrible he felt for him creating one of the first and only things that could actually destroy mankind once you watch the movie and think deep about its gonna change your perspective on nuclear weapons forever. At the end of the movie, when he was speaking to Albert Einstein, he said something that would forever hunt me. "I believe we already destroyed the world," as he said that it showed the uses and destruction of ICBMs that he didn't wanna be see or developed, but it happened. It sent a chill down my spin. I can not express how much that movie changed me. Because once you watch it and think you deeply about everything behind it or what it represents. You'll be hunted or changed, but if you ignore it, you will be without even knowing, and that's the most terrifying part.
awesome bro
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@skywalkscenes eh?
@@GetOnlineVon whats funny?
@@andrewreynolds912 your paragraph
Actually, though Einstein signed the letter, he did not write any of it. The warning came from Leo Szilard with Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner, Einstein was just brought in to make the letter be taken seriously.
From the Pulitzer-winning biography American Prometheus, the Los Alamos town (dubbed The Hill) eventually grew to 5,000 civilians (and family members) who worked on the project, flanked by 2,000 military police who guarded them.
perhaps there is a secret barbie town somewhere in america too.
"guarded them" kept others out, them in? both perhaps
@@Riplee It's not that deep 🙄
@@crew_the3rd I guess you haven't read that deep into it. The whole point of the Manhattan Project was to keep it a secret. In that, they were successful against the Axis powers, but not the Soviets. The military and scientists were substantially at odds with each other there, particularly in these matters. It's remote location was a double-sided sword. Relatives couldn't visit. Workers couldn't talk to spouses about work. Those inside couldn't travel more than 100 miles away, once a month. Anywhere in that area, counterintelligence was posted. Mail was censored. Voting was disallowed. All writings were classified. Scientists caught being handled by the Soviets were drafted elsewhere, dismissed, or brought up on charges of espionage. When Oppenheimer left Los Alamos at any time, he was tailed by counterintelligence.
Around then and thereafter, scientists were/are expected to moderate themselves, for the sake of secrecy. This in itself is a kind of prison. So yes, it is that deep.
@@rgw5991Oh, Barbenheimer totally makes sense now. 😅
That first Trinity snapshot is something else. The sheer size of this plasma ball... 0.016 second. How such a small payload can deploy such massive amount of energy is truly mesmerizing.
E=mc^2, mostly
Looks like everyone is talking about Oppenheimer now!
I swear. This the second video I saw today. It’s only 8am here
Oppenheimer has the best chance for a marketing stunt on barbie
Indeed Sherlock
You could say that the amount of people talking about him has really... exploded over the last couple weeks
who?
The ending,.... chilling! Thanks, editor and everyone working on this.
The butterfly effect kind of chain reaction🤯
Every news source on RUclips has come out with a video on Oppenheimer’s life ahead of the movie, and I’ve actually enjoyed learning the history of his life, the time, and the real-world implications before seeing the film 🙌🏻
And you'll watch it again in the movie as it's a biopic but these videos give us more context to the movie.
Just shows how many ppl are bandwagon
My Granddaddy worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the Manhattan Project. He proudly displayed his certificate until the day he died.
My father was a pistol and I'm a son of a gun.
I lived in Los Alamos in my teen years and went through junior high and high school there. This was long after the residential townsite had ceased to be a closed city*, though the lab’s technical areas were (and are) of course normally closed to all visitors except on very special occasions. (I got to take advantage of some of those occasions.) * And yes, this means that if you are curious about Los Alamos, you can visit there as a tourist, no special permission needed.
Los Alamos high school W
@@Kallifroggio TOPPER MARCHING BAND W
I’ve heard that there were natives who lived on that land that were forcibly removed by the government and was expecting the video to mention that!
It's briefly mentioned in the movie when Oppenheimer meets Truman.
Indigenous ppl lived in the fallout zone of the tests and had leukemia for generations, too. Watch John Pilger’s The Coming War with China (2014) doc for how our atomic bomb tests impacted indigenous ppl of the Marshall Islands, as well 🥺
Add Maralinga and the Montebello Islands in Australia when the British tested theirs
Native Americans have been kicked out from their land everywhere across the country.
@@smb723exactly
Okay. So we’re talking about Oppenheimer now huh? I gotta tell you how faithful the set of Los Alamos in the movie was to real life. The movie showed meticulously (if not accurately) what was in the work and how did they build it. The most unforgettable part of it was the Trinity field test scene. Like oh my God. I could not forget how it sounded and looked like.
perhaps there is a secret barbie town somewhere in america too.
@@rgw5991 maybe.
A secret Barbie City? Nah, never happened, OR DID IT?
The testing scenes were incredible (goosebumps)
@@rgw5991Yeah, it's called Beverly Hills
It would’ve been nice if this story was a little more nuanced and talked about the city that was bulldozed, the people that were uprooted and the diseases they caught because of the the experiments and lack of care for their lives.
MANY families lived in the area and were forced out. They were "compensated" but below market value - and Hispanics at a lower rate than whites. Some were given nothing at all. It is another story of the U.S. displacing marginal populations with no regard to "democracy" or human rights. "All's fair in love and war" and our government buys into that wholeheartedly.
That time still these racial problems existed
this is scope for a whole different movie
@@seeyafornow2642This video isn’t about the movie.
Who cares. Development of weapon saved millions
Just watched Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan and cast built such a mind-blowing film.
how, wasnt it released worldwide on 21st of July....
Also watched yesterday. It's amazing. Everyone should see it.
guess it wasn't just mind-blowing.
@@TitusRex why though. If you're really interested in the topic, a Hollywood production won't give you anything relevant - instead, you hear of good old McCarthyism forever and ever.
@@lauraqueentintsome theaters get advanced screening
The Los Alamos lab took over the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite boys boarding school. It already had housing and a basic infrastructure, but importantly VERY isolated.
Huh?? That's questionable. Why was there an all boys boarding school so isolated? Huh.. the satanic military always creates more questions.
You commented this without watching the video, didn't you?
You're just repeating what he said.
Wow if only you had watched the video to figure out they already stated this
@@johanjvdw The Los Alamos lab was based at the location of the Los Alamos Ranch School, a very isolated location
The Los Alamos ranch school became the fuller house dude, it’s not isolated I go there every week lol
Phil, you did an *EXCELLENT* job on this video. The story brought me in and the visuals/animations kept me fully interested. Great work!
awesome bro
The Canada and french connection. We don't like to include ourselves, but Canada played a significant part in the research and supply of some of the uranium/plutonium for nuclear projects. This included labs from McGill/ McMaster/Cambridge and many more universities who had experiments in Montreal, Chalk-River and many more. This was truly an allied effort. Canada was part of pioneering much of the work from Rutherford from early 1890's.
And you are proud of that contribution!
@@Samouraimoh its about being humble and not forgetting. Less we forget, the impact of war is terrible. Of note, chalkriver has been one of the biggest sources of medical isotopes. That i can be proud of.
Since the new film Oppenheimer pops up everywhere…but it’s good though for everyone to know about how nuclear bombs where invented and specifically how it’s a threat to our own existence and even Oppenheimer shared this opinion after its invention. Yet the people in power and worldleaders wouldn’t listen. Since then the world we know almost didn’t exist anymore due to a few events that almost destroyed it
I've read three or four books written by physicist Richard Feynman. In those books, he discusses his time in Los Alamos, and some of the lifestyle issues and problems there while the team worked on the Manhattan Project. This video adds even more to that story. Thanks !
I hope Feynman is portrayed in the film!
I’ve read “surely, you’re joking, Mr. Feynman” and i love the safe-cracking stories
@@metfan999 Apparently, Jack Quaid (son of Meg Ryan/ Dennis Quaid) plays Feynman in the film.
@@JillWhitcomb1966he does! He sure played the bongos in the movie
@@metfan999I tried to read it years ago and found him to be incredibly obnoxious. I might have to give it another shot bc I still hear people raving about that book.
Aside from all the "Barbenheimer" jokes & memes , I am legit starting to become more & more interested in Oppenheimer's story & this Vox vid has shed more light on it. Real talk that little jiggle at the end was legit creppy
As someone who lives in Philippines... that manhattan project liberated our ancestors during the war... prevented millions of death... i dont know if other filipinos share my view but I like to believe it is the most factual one
Great job, Phil!!
There were also some songs from Oak Ridge, in fact a whole musical written for its 25th anniversary which included similar songs to the Los Alamon Lament, though the timing of that lament makes it especially powerful.
Great art direction on this Vox
This is one of the craziest episodes in modern History and I can't wait to see in theaters
How did this creepy "Los Alamos Lament" not end up in a Fallout game?
Can’t wait for the movie; I’m planning on watching it Sunday.
Same🤗🤗
I want to see it just for 3 hours relief from the scorching heat I live in.
Reminder, they weren't necessarily super "remote", they were occupying Native American tribal lands - like the Nez Perce, Yakama, Umatilla. Not only were the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki sacrificed, so were the ancestral lands. Colonialism is a disease that destroys all.
Barbenheimer >> Entire Marvel Woke phase
Like if y'all agree
@@thebestevertherewasshut up
@@thebestevertherewas More like entire Marvel phase after 2012😭
@@thebestevertherewasNo like, because there's no such thing as "woke".
I think the natives would rather be colonized by Europeans and Americans than the Japanese
"Which hospital were you born? Mine was the university hospital downtown"
"uhh ... P.O. Box 1663"
My older siblings have PO box 1663 on their birth certificate
the editing of this one is so moving, especially the ending.
Thanks for the video!
The ending is just surreal. What a fantastic video!
hello! good video!!
My great grandfather worked at Los Alamos after the war, never really found out what he did, but whatever it was I’m sure it was cool.
Outstanding video, great sound design
Growing up in New Mexico, one of the biggest rivals of my high school speech and debate team was Los Alamos High. They are really good 😂
They better be, LOS ALAMOS HIGH IS BETTTTERRRR
5:46 a woman doing research in Physics in the 1940s .... Shocking but great . This shows that women were always in the development of physics
My question is bereft of atomic bomb activity. Why in the first place was the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite boys boarding school, existed in a VERY isolated location.
This is really well edited love the ending
Great background, well done as always, Vox!
Barbenheimer the greatest movie combo of the decade
Two amusing anecdotes from my home town:
The "Ashley's Pond" shown on the one map is named after the man who owned the Boy's Ranch that got bought out. His name was Ashley Pond, so the local joke is that the pond's full name is Ashley Pond's Pond, or Ashley's Pond squared when you live in a town full of scientists.
Also there's a letter in the historical museum there from Sears & Roebuck replying to a woman who wrote asking for their catalog. The letter said we don't know what you're doing with our catalogs but we've sent over 100 to this P.O Box and we aren't sending any more.
That's funny lol
Heisenberg from Albuquerque and Oppenheimer from los Alamos , there is something special in the air of new Mexico
The part at the end with the song/poem is just... wow! So eery.
Amazing video! Thanks!
Wow, what a great documentary, congrats for the video
And so Oppenheimer caused some of the greatest rifts in the world seen even today
His role in this has been overblown. This took thousands of people. Leslie Groves played a much bigger part in actually achieving it. Without his organisational talent and contact with private industry it would never have happened. He was an expert project manager. This Oppenheimer fixation is just hype.
The Russians and Brits would’ve invented it by themselves anyways
And brought peace for us for centuries. Look at the US, which is obsessed with war. Without the atomic bomb, they would've bombed a lot of countries like Iran, Russia and others.
This special bomb is the main reason, there is only a proxy war between the US and Russia, no direct conflict.
@@jamesjross the intellectuals made it happen, Oppenheimer had a huge part in choosing the colleagues to work on the project and it was his scientific breakthrough that helped make it happen. Read more and you'll see.
@@jamesjrossas usual people like to build myths and exaggeration around single person. Seems to be the case with Oppenheimer.
amazing documentary!!!
My high school physics teacher would regale us with stories of his time here (we took the source for granted- now I have questions).
Lovely channel
Was waiting for this.
I went to Los Alamos last year for research and got to tour the current lab stretch. The calm and beauty of the radius and the neighboring towns really resonated with why Oppenheimer must’ve chosen Los Alamos and not just because of its remoteness (so remote I couldn’t use uber eats at the hotel i stayed at). Aside from the awesome (rare and exclusive) opportunity to see the current works involving isotopes, the hikes provided extraordinary views. Would truly love to be back but in a vacation manner. After this film, many will surely want to visit and hopefully with respect.
So remote you couldn’t use UberEats🤣 wow… unimaginable. How could one survive such desolation
@@AK-pq7wb forgive me for sounding insensitive; i wasnt trying to ignore my privilege and i def know that this isnt a problem many will share nor should it even be a problem at all… my only reasoning for why i included this is since i was at a hotel nearby nothing without a way to travel by myself and only could in groups which wasnt always the only times id want to eat (i dont think its wrong to want to eat more than the three general times in a day).. regardless, i do agree that this isnt the best way to indicate the remoteness of a place but i just wanted to include my own modern day experience
Smart, gorgeous, memorable. Congrats Phil.
Just imagine oppenheimers thoughts and feelings for the rest of his life after the trinity tests. He died in 1967 during the cold war so he died thinking the world was gonna end because of his brilliant mind.
My great grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project, although from what I understand he might have had a majorly minor role in the production of making the bomb itself.
Thats so interesting!!
where’s barbie’s hidden city
Such a good video. Hits just the right beats. For example, highlighting (but not belaboring) the fact that more than 20% of Los Alamos women were having babies (far, far above the national average). The Nolan film and great pieces like this prepare Americans (and Westerners, in general) to confront the increasingly unavoidable and increasingly unstable situation in Russia.
"... we knew the world would not be the same...
two of us Laughed.. two of us cried.... .... most... were Silent....."
Great video! Where does Vox get there info graphics? Makes me want to make my own videos
I have become death, the destroyer of Worlds...
With all of the Oppenheimer hype, it is fun to my home town in the lime light. I lived in Los Alamos for my High School years. They probably have my graduation photo somewhere, as they had all of the seniors for the past as well. That pond in map is still there near downtown. (The Lab was moved to a southern mesa allowing the town to grow) It is a nice place to visit if you can.
Where I can find that song ? 8:03
I actually went there on accident trying to view a monument. I was confused when i got to the gate because i didnt know this place existed
I have an 80 year old client who was born there. She is an adamant pacifist.
Los Alamos is one of the richest counties in the US thanks to the Los Alamos Labs that are still there
Make more of this type of content. This is what I want from Vox!
That ending creeped through my skin.
fantastic video
Hey @TheGameCrafter , you have this video incorrectly added to your "Possible Products" Playlist.
Na he wants to buy a nuclear bomb
Great video Vox and so it was a secret so they can create it :]
Very intriguing!
Amazing editing and overall production as always.
Richard Feynman messed with security there often.
Only existing structure? First, the ranch school was comprised of several buildings. Second many other ranches existed in the area, many belonging to enthnically Hispanic peoples who were paid far less for their lands than their white neighbors.
First learn that Hispanic ain’t a race or an ethnic background. Those people weren’t ethnically looking Hispanic if they were they would of looked like there colonizers the Spaniards, many of those Hispanos were of native descent living on land of their ancestors that the Spaniards stole, technically all those Hispanos have native ancestry not matter how deep their Spanish ancestry goes so technically they were on past native land owned by whitewashed mixed race Hispanic natives, their was also many hispanos in Los alamos working there. Luis Alvarez who was of Spanish speaking descent was whiter than his Italian counterpart Enrico Fermi
Amazing storytelling
Oppenheimer in South Africa is about an ultra rich oligarch family widely despised
I used to work for the office of the attorney general office in Austin TX in the mail center and we received different mail from different companies and several were the Los alamos national laboratory
Interesting information
3:54 bro really said "i know a spot"
@3:17 where did you get this version of "Los Alamos Lament?" It's fantastic!
I hope the film includes the mathematician Jon von Neumann. He would drive everyday from Los Alamos to Albuquerque intentionally swaying side to side on the highway on his way to get lunch at his favorite restaurant.
Where is this known?
@@whaddup5417 In one of his biographies.. "Prisoner's Dilemma" by William Poundstone c1990
great video so far, but man that compression .... dither on a youtube video is brave :)
It is terrifying to actually see those pictures of trinity test.
History of Mankind's Brilliance.
ngl this would make a great quantum leap episode
among the most haunting episodes yet!
What an amazing story.
theres actully a small court yard were the po box was registerd and right behind it was a small post office were all the people send to los alomos went first to be told were to go and what they would have to do
My grandfather drove semi at Hanford...
He had marbles filled with plutonium,,as a GIFT?!
Surprised he died from CANCER??
This felt like a trailer 🔥
Vox is maybe the best information RUclips channel!
Here I am after watching Oppenheimer
Destroyer of the Worlds
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
I work with people who worked at Los Alamos after the war and all of them either have asbestosis or cancer or both. The labs poisioned half of northern New Mexico's population. Most of them were poor hispanic people and the labs did virtually nothing to protect them. Even secretaries and janitors got asbestos or beryllium exposure, and a large number were irradiated. This went on into the 90s. Amazing things have been developed at Los Alamos but it all came at the expense of low-income hispanic and native american people who didn't have a lot of opportunities. Now they are all chronically ill. It honestly irritates me that people are so into the Manhattan Project because of this movie when it has brought so much death and illness. Is this really worth celebrating?
You’re out of touch. Research says otherwise.
This is very interesting
The other secret city was Oakridge TN