Today is Aug. 6th here in Japan. I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart, that everyone in the world is thinking of what happened here in Japan on Aug. 6th this day in history, and then on Aug. 9th, and may those horrid events never, ever happen again.
Not that the bomb wasnt a horrible way to die but so was the rape torture and beheading of the american english and chinese that the japanese so cruelly inflicted upon innocent humans!!! The japanese people were ultimately to blame for a VERY CRUEL WAR---americans certainly were not!!!Look at the whole of the war!!!
This Oppenheimer 'father of the Bomb' is exaggaration because of a movie. Yes, he was in charge, but it could have been someone else. There were so many brilliant scientists around, that it would have been done anyway. Not to mention Feynman at least. Key thing is that Einstein warned Roosevelt who made decision to build it - a humongous and ultra expensive task which only USA were capable of. Oppenheimer's greates achievement is probably Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
His charisma and reputation managed to get all those scientists to come to Los Alamos to work on the project. He got it done. He could grasp all aspects of what was needed in all aspects of the science and kept it going bt being involved. That takes a special mind.
Hi Milke, I hope this helps for people who really didn't know much about him to go in with some base knowledge of his life. I just wished I would have touched on Lewis Strauss more. I got the impression while doing research that Teller was going to be the main antagonist. He was the scientist that demonized him.
Most of the atomic scientists from the Manhattan Project sided with Oppenheimer, not with Edward Teller who was his main scientific opponent. Teller wanted the H bomb largely as a personal vanity project to prove that he could do it.
It seems well established from a number of sources that although Oppenheimer had friends who were communists, he never joined the Communist Party himself. He also never betrayed any atomic secrets.
I see what you are saying, but the "joining debate" is really just semantics in this regard. He gave money (lots), went to meetings, dated communist, and recruited students into coming. But he himself at the end of the day was not a communist.
In the middle of May 1945 Manhattan project came to standstill, problem was with synchronization of implosion by simultaneous. detonating of charges. Problem was solved when advanced German timers were delivered, the commander of German submarine was on the way to Japan when got message of Nazi Germany capitulation and he decided to hand over these timers to US ship in Atlantic. Without these German timers Trinity would never occurred on July 16 1945, it would took a few more months to develop these timers by US itself.
Thank you. Very informative. How you respond to comments is impressive. How about makind a documentry about nuclear rece among the countries and pathetic efforts in nuclear disarmament?
Thanks! I try to respond to as many as I can. Some comments on here I'm not always sure what to respond with. I'm actually not sure what our next project will be but I am likely to take a break from the arms race/oppenheimer/ atomic type topics. My true love in history is the Apollo program, maybe something with that.
The “J” in Oppenheimer’s name did not stand for Jonas. It stood for Julius. Jean Tatlock was not a physicist. She was studying psychiatry when she died.
Hey Alex, in early life it clearly states that it was Julius, I'm not sure if Jack says jonas somewhere else. Do you remember where in the video the Jean Tatlock thing is? I would like to make a correction in the video but I didn't see it.
The discussion on gaseous diffusion, isotopic separation by gas centrifuge of UF6 and preparative mass spectrometry are laughably abridged and provide no real explanation of the technical difficulties or achievements of this dream team. The consequence of a poorly designed "bomb" would be a dirty fizzle with a lack of yield. But over many tests, the results were generally too much unexpected yield and never a fizzle. Getting the initial design right with both the U235 and Pu239 designs and so little radioactive material to spare is truly the amazing part of this story.
I apologize if my scientific explanations are lacking, I got most of my physics info from the Ray Monk book. I certainly didn't understand a lot of it. I certainly made the docu for history fans. I would say I took on more than I can chew with the science stuff. That's why I reached out to Jordan Ashley to explain the in and outs of the bomb because I thought that would really count for something. I think she did a great job explaining it. Hopefully the lack of physics explanation didn't ruin the video for you or anybody else that has a better grasp then me.
@@HistoryCity1 My comment isn't specifically directed at you or your very intelligent presentation but all the biographers and historians of the Manhattan Gadget. The theoretical underpinnings of "the "bomb" were understood by the theoretical atomic physicists of the day to result in the letter to Roosevelt asking that the project be adopted by the US military. This was all well before Oppenheimer was selected to oversee the effort at Los Alamos. Everything that followed was essentially an engineering problem solving session of varying degrees of difficulty. Gradient shaped charges made of conventional chemical explosives, timed electrical detonators to the microsecond, endless neutron cross section calculations and much more were performed without the benefit of electronic computers or even handheld calculators. And it had to work the first time. Using two explosive devices was required to convince the Japanese that we had an endless supply of them when in fact we only had two and had used them both already. In retrospect Oppenheimer was wrong on this account and also the continued engineering of hydrogen bombs. H bombs are free yield as lithium deuteride is cheap to refine compared to U235 and Pu239 and makes the issue of first use that much more unlikely than say a small tactical nuke with more limited blast radius. To date, our luck has held, but no guarantees for the future.
He contributed $1,000 a year ($23K today) to the American Communist Party from 1937-1942. He was not a formal member of the party (card-carrying) but associated with many people that were. So, if you want to parse facts, no he wasn't a member of the party. Did he support the party? Yes, to some extent.
@@buckhorncortez Thanks for commenting buck. I have had a several comments from people refuting my claim that he joined the party. He went to the meetings, donated to them, had two relationships in the party, his brother was openly in the party, and he recruited students. As i explained in the video, it's still far more complicated than that. Thanks for watching.
yes he was, not technically a card carrying member but he was a financial supporter of the party and attended many meetings. Having said that , he was a loyal American.
I would still characterize him joining since he donated thousands of dollars, recruited students, went to events, dated one communist and married another. He himself was not a communist. He was a new deal democrat.
I would agree with this. Rhodes was the historian I was quoting when I shared "I have no doubt the United States was on the side of the angels in WWII, but they used the tools of the devil to win. I think books are far better sources than anything else.
@@HistoryCity1 To be respectfully clear, my comment was to uplift and invite reading the book, not downgrade your excellent documentary. I also watched the doc by Murphy, who was a little too subjective in his presentation including stating that Oppy didn’t quote Vishnu phrase “I am death…” Curious, since there’s the televised interview of him saying exactly that; I was very disappointed with him.
@@johnnash5118 I'm wondering if what he meant was that he misquoted it. I think it even says in Rhodes book he is combining quotes and ideas into one perfect little quote. I reached out to Rhodes when I began to write this to clear up a few points of research but he never got back even though we exchanged email a few years ago. I went with his explanation about his quote so maybe the other docu was trying to challenge a common notion. IDK. Can I get a link to this Murphy doc? I would love to check it out.
I want to watch this movie about him and the world's most destructive weapon. To me he successfully demonstrated the destructive power of a nuclear bomb. I put him in the same category as Tesla, both men were historically geniuses. Just think of the aftermath, this weapon never stops destroying as it travels through time
Hi thanks for taking the time to comment identification133. He certainly earned the recognition for great physicist of his day. Its crazy Hiroshima took 9 seconds
Frisch and Peierls obviously did everything needed to "invent" and design the bomb except to actuallly manufacture it. The Manhatten projects primary mission was to islolate the U235 indetified by Frisch and Peirerls in the quality they described or larger; then put the critical mass together with a firing mechanism. General Groves was in charge of the project. That doesn't leave much room to claim an office manager of a group of physicists was "the father of the a bomb" makes such historians rather look like fools. Oppenheimer didn't even think the atom could be split. Ernst Lawrence could possibly claim it because the Plutonium bomb was exploded first even though it wasn't built first. Lawrence identified plutoniium as a substitute for U235 which could be extracted chemically. Giving that title Oppenheimer is totally invalid and an attempt to give false credit to a minor player in the project. His largest impact was a very poor security internally allowing the secrets to be stolen easily.
Thanks for providing lots of background information that will help me to follow Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer", which I hope to see next month. One curiosity, which I hope you find amusing rather than offensive: You used both "nucular" and "nuclear", perhaps even mixed in the same sentence. Many folks who say it wrong find it impossible to pronounce it correctly, no matter how much they try. (Think "atomic pasta" = "nucular pasketi" = "nuclear spagetti") Lots of folks, even nuclear physisicts, erroniously say "nucular". I'm delighted that most of the time your narrator said it correctly.
Insightful yet riveting take on Oppenheimer! Love the music too. Could you provide the name of the one you used at the 55.30 mark? It's quite powerful.
Yes! Its called Portal Latrop from Dex1200 Thanks for watching and commenting. Some of the songs in here are original and I was proud of the work our partner Circle Tone did for this project.
Einstein made a few speeches in public forums about the dangers of nuclear energy. The politicians and lawmakers weren't interested in the U.S in what he said. Oppenheimer was a poster boy of the nuclear program of the United states jump-started in about 1942. A car with a dead battery can be jump started with the good battery of another car with a jumper cable. The American atom bomb program was jump started in about 1942 when two academic scientists showed up at the white House with about 50 papers of the Soviet atom bomb. The Soviet atom bomb was designed by a Soviet team led by Egor Kurchatov between 1936 and 1942. During a visit to the White House in about 1942, Robert Oppenheimer said he needed 3 months notice in early 1942 approximately, in order to quit his job and to enlist himself in the re-design and re-manufacture of the Soviet atom bomb designed by the Soviet team of dissident nuclear scientists within the Soviet Union. President Roosevelt asked the two academic scientists in about 1942 why there so many papers on nuclear air blast calculations in the smuggled papers on the Soviet atom bomb. the bundle had about 50 pages approximately. The two academic scientists rightly guessed that these air blast calculations were a delaying tactics by the dissident scientists of the Soviet Union to delay the manufacture of he Soviet atom bomb. which made up to 70 percent of the papers handed over to the white House. President Roosevelt made it very clear that he wants an American with a German last name to be the poster boy of the nuclear program of the US. Kurchatov himself was a dissident scientist. He looked more like a beach boy surfing a surf board as a young man. Egor as a young man also looked like a slim fraternity boy in any college in the US. Average fraternity man in any college across the US used to be fat. About a decade or two ago, college fraternities in the US made it a requirement that all new fraternity members be slim or muscular and not fat any more. Later, he also started looking like a mad scientist as he aged. Oppenheimer was hesitant to join the nuclear program, as he someone told him as a child that he had a German last name. *** In 1942, two theoretical physics from a country hear Holland or Denmark showed up at the White House with detailed blueprints of the Soviet atom bomb along with air blast calculations. President Roosevelt was suddenly highly interested. Two academic scientists from Holland or some other small country near Holland or Denmark visited the White House along with blueprints of the Soviet atom bomb, and offered to become project managers of the American nuclear program. President Roosevelt told Oppenheimer that he needed an American with a German last name as the project manager. Why, If the President finds out that Hitler may use the atom bomb against the US, then President Roosevelt may be obliged to order the use of atom bombs against Berlin. So President Roosevelt wanted a scientist with a German last name to lead the American nuclear program. Einstein had also talked about the dangers of nuclear energy in public. No politician or lawmaker in the US listened to the nerdy scientist named Einstein who looked like a mad scientist. The President listened to the two visiting academic scientists from Central European country who came to the White House with a bundle of papers and blueprints of the Soviet atom bomb and air blast calculations of the Soviet nuclear weapons program in 1942..
I can see how the Nagasaki bomb use, just 3 days after Hiroshima can be criticized. Japan was wrecked by the conventional fire bombings, their war industries were decimated, famine was at hand; time would’ve forced Hiro Hito to seek an honorable unconditional surrender under threat of another “most cruel bomb.” 30 days would’ve been a reasonable wait.
The Nagasaki bomb didn't sit well with Oppenheimer either. He knew though it wasn't up to him. I think the belief was at the time was that had the US dropped the second bomb, there was no denying the effectiveness of the bomb.
@@HistoryCity1 Certainly, but with a 30 day ultimatum, would they have challenged that threat? I read that the Truman decision was influenced by his Midwest (I forgot the exact quote) conservative resolve?
@@johnnash5118 I remember once reading something similar about Truman that he had something like a no non sense Missouri sense. That's a really interesting question about Japan though. It's possible that since the days and weeks more and more people died, which was far more than the first day of the blast, maybe the Japanese learning it was not 200 plus thousand and not the initial 50k believed to be dead would have sunk in more. It's hard to know though.
Japan refused to surrender even after Hiroshima, I believe. Japanese civilians were told to fight to the death if Japan was invaded. Hirohito could’ve surrendered, he didn’t. He was God to his people.
The modern trend of material civilization is to increase the degree of the feverish material condition, which has therefore reached the point of 107 in the form of atomic energy, with the foolish politicians crying that at any moment the world may go to hell. That is the result of the advancement of material knowledge, and of the neglect of the most important part of life, the culture of spiritual knowledge. Śrī Īśopanisad.
The idea of mass material possessions is not new to modern society. This has been around all over the world for thousands of years. It was the industrial revolution where we lost a lot of our connections to culture and nature at scale that is scary.
No he doesn't deserve credit as important to the Abomb. Oppenheimer was not even close to the "man behind" the Abomb; he didn't even think atoms could be split until German scientists did it. Gen Groves headed the massive Manhattan project; one might call Groves "the man behind the A bomb". Oppenheimer was picked by Groves as the manager of a group that designed the bombs, an important but small part of the project. Germans made all the discoveries that made an a bomb possible. 1. Fission, and 2. U235's importance. Ernst Lawrence identified Plutonium as an easier obtain substitute for U235. Many could have filled Oppenheimer's shoes. As manager of the bomb design he may well be held responsible for the poor security screening and lack of internal security that allows the Russians to obtain these secrets.
His love affairs have 0 effects on his loyalty. He was fair and honest and true enough. Groves was a jack ass under pressure from you guessed it, the usa government.
At 54:38 you’ve got the WRONG date of death for Kitty; you have her dying on the same date as J. Robert: Feb. 18, 1967. It’s important to QC your work.
Nice catch, after researching for about 6 months and doing the video for two months, I probably had real tired eyes by the time I got to the 54 min mark. Hopefully it didn't ruin the video for you. I think I just put her face on the wrong slide.
@HistoryCity1 Interesting & (mostly) enjoyable video. However, overall credibility suffers from the surprising & grating mispronunciation of the names of major figures such as Szilard and Bethe.
My Father was on the beach in Coney Island on leave, waiting to be called back for the invasion of Japan, when they heard about the bombing. Would he survived that invasion?
What unit was he in? I can look up preliminary battle plans to check his likely involvement. However, the best answer i can ever give you is the bomb likely saved his life.
My father was at Philippines waiting to participate in an invasion when bomb was dropped. Remember Japan was brutal in war, and a never surrender culture. Even after Hiroshima they did not surrender It took a second bomb
No more shocking than the historical pictures of the Tokyo bombing of March 9, 1945. The Tokyo bombing destroyed a larger area and killed more people - it just took about three hours longer.
@@buckhorncortez I think the crazy part is the idea that one plane, and one bomb did all that in nine seconds. The tokyo photos are also hard to stomach.
@@gerrydooley951I bet it was worst for the people who suffered radiation poisoning, from the black rain, had malformed children and died years after having had various cancers or deformities.
Duck & Cover! What a Stupid Idea.. It's bend over & kiss your butt goodbye! I remember doing these drills in school back in the 70's. Know one ever told us about radiation 😢
I remember doing a few of these as a kid in the 90's. Looking back on it now it just seems like somebody was checking a box. Sadly, unless you are outside the blast radius, you have zero chance.
I went to elementary school in the 1950's. We didn't do duck-and-cover. Instead, we went to a hallway, where there were no windows, and lay stomach down on the floor, with the head bent to the side and one hand below the face and one hand on the neck. I didn't think these measures would be very effective, but I complied, as did everybody else.
@@jackkomisar458 Hi Jack, I'm from Illinois and I remember doing a very modified version of it. I think looking back on the drills my teachers didn't care about them. Tornadoes were a bigger threat in rural IL.
It’s funny that an Irishman is playing Oppenheimer in the movie when Oppenheimer was American. If Michael Collins was played by an Englishman or American instead of Liam Neeson, the Irish wouldn’t be happy.
Your comparison is apples to pineapples. In other words, kind of seems related on the surface, but is really nothing alike. There are certain stories that are so deeply cultural and so deeply sensitive that those who have lived that story (the Irish, for example) have every right and expectation to see one of their own bring the story to life. For those who might not know, Michael Collins was a freedom-fighter for his entire nation, eventually ambushed and killed for his actions. Irish people everywhere can either identify, or at least strongly know, who Michael Collins was. Americans, generally speaking of course, likely have little identification with RJO as a fellow American, if they even know who he was (especially before the film).
Hollywood has been using Irish/British actors to portray historical figures for decades. Let me pose a question to you @MRK1973 Who would you have cast to play Oppenheimer? I think Murphy nailed it and will get an oscar nomination.
Matt Damon as General Groves!!!?? I was lookimg forward to seeing this movie until I heard Matt Damon is playing General Groves. I dont know if I could get past that in my mind.
@@RogerWatford I'm pretty sure Matt Damon ended up in this movie because the studio wanted more stars to promote it. Damon is a name, therefore they will write a bigger check. I agree at the end of the day, he was a strange choice for Groves.
I would rather die then have to carry the burden of having created such a weapon. The bomb was a single victory in an endless sea of tragedy and despair...
I feel like I know every second of this guy's life after watching, this, the 10th maybe 20th sudden documentary about him. Might not even watch the Nolan version now. Kinda wore out on this guy already.
Have you seen the movie yet? I agree on the fatigue. I spent 6 months researching for this. I have one more video where we talk about the movie. Once that is out, I am moving on from him. Thanks for watching
Because Japan chose not to surrender, Oppenheimer influenced the U.S. government to build the atomic bomb to drop it over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There wasn't a choice but to force Japan to surrender. The bombing was I think a week or a month after Germany surrendered. The point was at the begining was for the U.S. to beat Nazi Germany in the race of the development of atomic bombs. And to be ahead of other countries.
Im going to have to disagree with you here. Oppenheimer didn't influence the government to make the bomb. It was that letter signed by Einstein and other notable physicists. The bomb was dropped on August, about three months after the German surrender. The only country trying to develop an atomic bomb was Germany so they didn't race against a bunch of other countries.
Same story with Dr Nambi Narayan a space scientist at ISRO..was wrongly accused .. tortured and arrested...later proved innocent ..clean...so what.... we lost his talents....wasted ..coz of vested interests.
The conversation with Chevalier is only half-correct in the way described here. Chevalier told him about a third party (Eltenton) who was connected to the Russians and was hoping to share secrets with them. It wasn't a case of Chevalier approaching him actively to do so, or at least there's been no real evidence or accepted version of history that had him doing so. He (Chevalier) was describing a conversation he had with someone (Eltenton) that had disturbed him, and so he told Oppenheimer. Chevalier was never accused of actively subverting the US (though was blacklisted etc. for being a card-carrying communist). It's kinda nuanced, but a big difference if we want to really remember either men accurately. Two other small points: 1. Groves brought the uranium from Belgian Congo (in Africa) not from Belgium (which was under Nazi occupation at the time); 2. Its still debated whether what Fuchs gave the Russians really would have made a huge difference in the pace of Russian atomic and H-bomb development (I'm believe it certainly didnt hurt, but its importance is sometimes overstated). Still, ironic that with all that attention on Oppenheimer there was a Russian mole already right under their nose.
I have a little bit of info in there about him studying in Germany getting his PHD. I had a little more, but a copyright strike forced me to cut out about 45 seconds around this time. I'm still hoping to get that section put back in about it. Sorry :(
I grew up in Kentucky and my family was originally from Tennessee, but I remember growing up hearing my mom and grandmother along with my aunt's talk about the Manhattan project "power plants" that are located (in Tennessee) there, killed my great grandfather.....does anyone have any idea what exactly they were talking about?
Can you get me your grandfathers name? Feel free to email me with the information. I might have some ideas. If you have any military info that would help as well.
@@jamiefeltner6398 i will see what i can do this weekend. I have good experience looking into people involved in the war effort. If you could please email me at lchchannel3@gmail.com so we can communicate there. -jase
Between Oppenheimer and Teller the latter was murderer most telling, and to this day should be exposed as the bringer of poison and trauma to all generations like myself since, and the religiosity of both is appalling.
@@bearowen5480 I get what you are saying especially with his role in the letter to FDR, but I don't think we will ever truly know who had the idea first to make an atomic bomb.
@@HistoryCity1 I commend to you Pullitzer Prize For History winner, "THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB" by Richard Rhodes. Rhodes asserted that Szillard was the originator of the concept, and in the first chapter, details the month and year that while crossing a street in London that the idea first popped into his head. His account convinced me.
@@bearowen5480 I see what you are saying. I just think from it becoming an idea in theory to the practical had a lot of combined scientist along the way that contributed to it. John Crofton and Ernest Walton first split the atom etc. Szilard was building on what Rutherford wrote. That's why I jokingly referred to Szilard as grandfather.
He did join the communist party. However he was not a communist. I don't believe i wrote jean tatlock was a communist. Do you have a time stamp for that?
@@HistoryCity1 There is credible evidence, which I found after reading your reply, that Oppenheimer did join the Communist Party. The question is not settled and I am not qualified to discuss it. I retract that part of my comment. However, it seems to me that if one joins the Communist Party, that means that one is Communist. It would be a good subject for debate. Please read my earlier comment again. I did not say that you said that Jean Tatlock was a Communist.
This documentary is way better than the 3 hour movie. It contains all I needed to know without the little drama details of the movie, which is actually pretty boring by the way.
I tried my best to get historical footage but i had to fill an hour somehow. Im sorry the PBS show footage ruined it for you. I do appreciate you taking the time to watch though
Can u imagine being a parent of one of those boys being killed in the invasion of japan and then learning that we had an atom bomb that could have stopped the war without an invasion but we didnt use it? Now multilpy that by 500,000 parents leaning this news. Also, there would have been many more people on both sides killed if we invaded japan and won a year later.
tell that to the many chinese americans and english that felt for an instant the cruel blade of the japs samurai swords and more--the PEOPLE of Japan are ultimately responsible for the use of the bombs---none other!!!!
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. I appreciate you taking the time to give feedback though. I'll keep that in mind when I go to make the next one. I was going for casual audiences and wanted to show a lot of the videos I found making this. Hopefully you give us a second chance someday.
@@HistoryCity1 Pretty sure that comment was about a certain current theatrical release, not your video. Nice use of the 1980 BBC series. A much better coverage of the subject than Nolan's noisy screensaver.
It's a stupid documentary and of course it's from the US perspective. As for Oppenheimer being a communist hey never fully committed to a communist party 100% did he? There were many other thinking usually students who explored the idea and explored it's benefits as many others did before World war 2 but of course it the US has major problems with communism because it is the most capitalist country in the world the US bloody hates communism. Maybe if he had Nazi or fascist it may have been different. And let's not forget at the end of WW2 and even after. Let's not forget the US pilfered all the most excellent scientists working in the Nazi party and demanded Japan hand over their scientific information so that they could use their science statistics to increase the US space project and other science projects.
@@HistoryCity1wasn’t a communist by definition huh? Yet you blatantly label him a communist just under four minutes in. Have some damn intellectual and historical integrity if you are going to make biographical videos about people. Embarrassing look.
@@HistoryCity1 yeah cause in good ol' 'murica anything just slightly socialistic is automatically communism the land of the free?.... more like the land of the delusional
Correction: I put the wrong slide in there for the date of Kitty Oppenheimer. Her date of death is October 27, 1972.
Okay!
150.000 died in Tokyo from incendiary bombs (basically fire bombing) on a city of wood and rice paper.....
I appreciate how this video highlights Oppenheimer's conflicting role as a scientist and the consequences of his creations.
Today is Aug. 6th here in Japan. I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart, that everyone in the world is thinking of what happened here in Japan on Aug. 6th this day in history, and then on Aug. 9th, and may those horrid events never, ever happen again.
Not that the bomb wasnt a horrible way to die but so was the rape torture and beheading of the american english and chinese that the japanese so cruelly inflicted upon innocent humans!!! The japanese people were ultimately to blame for a VERY CRUEL WAR---americans certainly were not!!!Look at the whole of the war!!!
We were fortunate to have him. Our history with Japan in WWII would have been very different without him and the other brilliant people that saved us.
Oh yes, how nice
This Oppenheimer 'father of the Bomb' is exaggaration because of a movie. Yes, he was in charge, but it could have been someone else. There were so many brilliant scientists around, that it would have been done anyway. Not to mention Feynman at least. Key thing is that Einstein warned Roosevelt who made decision to build it - a humongous and ultra expensive task which only USA were capable of. Oppenheimer's greates achievement is probably Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
I never knew Oppenheimer had such a complex background. I can't express my feelings. Great video!
@nancymolly8359 Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Jack and I are humbled at the response that people gave after they watched this.
His charisma and reputation managed to get all those scientists to come to Los Alamos to work on the project. He got it done. He could grasp all aspects of what was needed in all aspects of the science and kept it going bt being involved. That takes a special mind.
Wow, this video really dives into the complex history behind Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb.
The Trinity test footage is still mind-blowing to watch.
Im happy they filmed it. I think someone pitched not filming it because it would somehow be a security risk.
It was all a game of numbers in which the innocent will always pay the highest price...
Incredible history lesson! Oppenheimer's role in the Manhattan Project is both fascinating and haunting.
Thanks William!
I love his eyes, they see into other worlds, respect and love, J. Robert.
Who else is here as homework for Christopher Nolan's new film?
Hi Milke, I hope this helps for people who really didn't know much about him to go in with some base knowledge of his life. I just wished I would have touched on Lewis Strauss more. I got the impression while doing research that Teller was going to be the main antagonist. He was the scientist that demonized him.
Such an Insightful exploration of the man behind the atomic bomb. Keep up the good work!
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That would be a Nobel Prize for Physics or Chemistry, not a Nobel Peace Prize, which would have been irrelevant to the Manhattan Project.
Nice catch, when I hear Nobel I instantly think Nobel peace prize.
Most of the atomic scientists from the Manhattan Project sided with Oppenheimer, not with Edward Teller who was his main scientific opponent. Teller wanted the H bomb largely as a personal vanity project to prove that he could do it.
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Fantastic Documentary! Very thorough and enlightening. I learned alot watching this- Thank You for uploading this!
Thanks!
It seems well established from a number of sources that although Oppenheimer had friends who were communists, he never joined the Communist Party himself.
He also never betrayed any atomic secrets.
I see what you are saying, but the "joining debate" is really just semantics in this regard. He gave money (lots), went to meetings, dated communist, and recruited students into coming. But he himself at the end of the day was not a communist.
Such an informative video! Oppenheimer's legacy is a reminder of the power and responsibility of science.
anks Notforsale! That was one thing I was hoping people would get from this docu
Science in wartime is a double-edged sword. ⚔⚛ Such an informative video!
Thanks Warren!
Great video on the complex life of a scientific genius.
Thanks Aichetou! We appreciate it
In the middle of May 1945 Manhattan project came to standstill, problem was with synchronization of implosion by simultaneous. detonating of charges. Problem was solved when advanced German timers were delivered, the commander of German submarine was on the way to Japan when got message of Nazi Germany capitulation and he decided to hand over these timers to US ship in Atlantic. Without these German timers Trinity would never occurred on July 16 1945, it would took a few more months to develop these timers by US itself.
Never forgettable Impact of the bomb on Japan and the world. Thanks for making this video and sharing with us.🙏
Don't forget the food you eat has radiation in it thanks for all the nuclear testing done in Nevada.
Today is Aug. 6th here in Japan. No, we will never forget the impact of those bombs. May those horrid events never, ever happen again.
The moral dilemma of using the atomic bomb is something we should always remember. Great video.
Thanks Mychannel, doing research on Oppie is something that will really stick with me. He was such a complicated man.
Destruction and death came to a new level.
Oppenheimer's moral dilemmas really hit hard. 😔💔
This is what i hope people would take away from this. Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Very informative. How you respond to comments is impressive. How about makind a documentry about nuclear rece among the countries and pathetic efforts in nuclear disarmament?
Thanks! I try to respond to as many as I can. Some comments on here I'm not always sure what to respond with. I'm actually not sure what our next project will be but I am likely to take a break from the arms race/oppenheimer/ atomic type topics. My true love in history is the Apollo program, maybe something with that.
The “J” in Oppenheimer’s name did not stand for Jonas. It stood for Julius. Jean Tatlock was not a physicist. She was studying psychiatry when she died.
Hey Alex, in early life it clearly states that it was Julius, I'm not sure if Jack says jonas somewhere else. Do you remember where in the video the Jean Tatlock thing is? I would like to make a correction in the video but I didn't see it.
The discussion on gaseous diffusion, isotopic separation by gas centrifuge of UF6 and preparative mass spectrometry are laughably abridged and provide no real explanation of the technical difficulties or achievements of this dream team. The consequence of a poorly designed "bomb" would be a dirty fizzle with a lack of yield. But over many tests, the results were generally too much unexpected yield and never a fizzle. Getting the initial design right with both the U235 and Pu239 designs and so little radioactive material to spare is truly the amazing part of this story.
I apologize if my scientific explanations are lacking, I got most of my physics info from the Ray Monk book. I certainly didn't understand a lot of it. I certainly made the docu for history fans. I would say I took on more than I can chew with the science stuff. That's why I reached out to Jordan Ashley to explain the in and outs of the bomb because I thought that would really count for something. I think she did a great job explaining it. Hopefully the lack of physics explanation didn't ruin the video for you or anybody else that has a better grasp then me.
@@HistoryCity1 My comment isn't specifically directed at you or your very intelligent presentation but all the biographers and historians of the Manhattan Gadget. The theoretical underpinnings of "the "bomb" were understood by the theoretical atomic physicists of the day to result in the letter to Roosevelt asking that the project be adopted by the US military. This was all well before Oppenheimer was selected to oversee the effort at Los Alamos. Everything that followed was essentially an engineering problem solving session of varying degrees of difficulty. Gradient shaped charges made of conventional chemical explosives, timed electrical detonators to the microsecond, endless neutron cross section calculations and much more were performed without the benefit of electronic computers or even handheld calculators. And it had to work the first time.
Using two explosive devices was required to convince the Japanese that we had an endless supply of them when in fact we only had two and had used them both already. In retrospect Oppenheimer was wrong on this account and also the continued engineering of hydrogen bombs. H bombs are free yield as lithium deuteride is cheap to refine compared to U235 and Pu239 and makes the issue of first use that much more unlikely than say a small tactical nuke with more limited blast radius. To date, our luck has held, but no guarantees for the future.
The movie a great character study. It isn't about the bomb or about Hiroshima.
This is an amazing video of the history of Oppenheimer and the first nuclear bomb it’s beyond crazy to have known it was unleashed on Hiroshima, 😢
Today is Aug. 6th here in Japan. May those horrid events never, ever happen again.
He was politically naive, and never ever a communist.
I agree with your assessment. Through my research for this i found that he aligned himself as a new deal democrat first and foremost.
How do you conclude that he was naive?
He contributed $1,000 a year ($23K today) to the American Communist Party from 1937-1942. He was not a formal member of the party (card-carrying) but associated with many people that were. So, if you want to parse facts, no he wasn't a member of the party. Did he support the party? Yes, to some extent.
@@buckhorncortez Thanks for commenting buck. I have had a several comments from people refuting my claim that he joined the party. He went to the meetings, donated to them, had two relationships in the party, his brother was openly in the party, and he recruited students. As i explained in the video, it's still far more complicated than that. Thanks for watching.
yes he was, not technically a card carrying member but he was a financial supporter of the party and attended many meetings. Having said that , he was a loyal American.
Openheimer is duty bound as a citizen of U.S.
Awesome video!! 10 out of 10!! Love the music!!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@HistoryCity1Name of the music? Thanks.
@@kyungheecho which music? I have some specifics in the credits at the end. If you get me a time stamp i can get you the song
@@HistoryCity1 Thanks, may be later. 🙏
Nice work HC! That truman warning always creeps me out.
I'm sure the music didn't help 😆
He never joined the communist party, his brother and his wife did but Robert never joined.
I would still characterize him joining since he donated thousands of dollars, recruited students, went to events, dated one communist and married another. He himself was not a communist. He was a new deal democrat.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize; at 764 pages, it included much more than this or any documentary can show.
I would agree with this. Rhodes was the historian I was quoting when I shared "I have no doubt the United States was on the side of the angels in WWII, but they used the tools of the devil to win. I think books are far better sources than anything else.
@@HistoryCity1 To be respectfully clear, my comment was to uplift and invite reading the book, not downgrade your excellent documentary. I also watched the doc by Murphy, who was a little too subjective in his presentation including stating that Oppy didn’t quote Vishnu phrase “I am death…” Curious, since there’s the televised interview of him saying exactly that; I was very disappointed with him.
@@johnnash5118 I'm wondering if what he meant was that he misquoted it. I think it even says in Rhodes book he is combining quotes and ideas into one perfect little quote. I reached out to Rhodes when I began to write this to clear up a few points of research but he never got back even though we exchanged email a few years ago. I went with his explanation about his quote so maybe the other docu was trying to challenge a common notion. IDK. Can I get a link to this Murphy doc? I would love to check it out.
@@HistoryCity1 ruclips.net/video/M1Ptr7ypSZU/видео.html
@@johnnash5118 Hey john did you mean to send me a link to my video?
@ 17:37
" . . . without a single leak of information."
Uh, NO!
I meant that he didn't leak any information
this is the best bio I've seen of Oppenheimer...very informative
Thanks Bradley! Although a few mistakes made it in, hopefully it helps people before or after understand the movie more.
Such a complex legacy he left behind. 📜✨
I want to watch this movie about him and the world's most destructive weapon. To me he successfully demonstrated the destructive power of a nuclear bomb. I put him in the same category as Tesla, both men were historically geniuses. Just think of the aftermath, this weapon never stops destroying as it travels through time
Hi thanks for taking the time to comment identification133. He certainly earned the recognition for great physicist of his day. Its crazy Hiroshima took 9 seconds
Frisch and Peierls obviously did everything needed to "invent" and design the bomb except to actuallly manufacture it. The Manhatten projects primary mission was to islolate the U235 indetified by Frisch and Peirerls in the quality they described or larger; then put the critical mass together with a firing mechanism. General Groves was in charge of the project. That doesn't leave much room to claim an office manager of a group of physicists was "the father of the a bomb" makes such historians rather look like fools. Oppenheimer didn't even think the atom could be split. Ernst Lawrence could possibly claim it because the Plutonium bomb was exploded first even though it wasn't built first. Lawrence identified plutoniium as a substitute for U235 which could be extracted chemically. Giving that title Oppenheimer is totally invalid and an attempt to give false credit to a minor player in the project. His largest impact was a very poor security internally allowing the secrets to be stolen easily.
Thanks for providing lots of background information that will help me to follow Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer", which I hope to see next month. One curiosity, which I hope you find amusing rather than offensive: You used both "nucular" and "nuclear", perhaps even mixed in the same sentence. Many folks who say it wrong find it impossible to pronounce it correctly, no matter how much they try. (Think "atomic pasta" = "nucular pasketi" = "nuclear spagetti") Lots of folks, even nuclear physisicts, erroniously say "nucular". I'm delighted that most of the time your narrator said it correctly.
read one of the two bios on him
Narrator had a rather cringeworthy hard time with the proper pronunciation of many of the names as well... That always bothers me to no end.
"Nucular" always makes my brain clench. I wish it didn't (it seems to me that most people pronounce it that way) but...oh well.
Both pronunciations are fine. I personally use noo-klee-er although nyoo-kyuh-ler is perfectly acceptable according to most dictionaries I use.
Anomynous.
His wife used to call him OppenHammer 🤭
Insightful yet riveting take on Oppenheimer! Love the music too. Could you provide the name of the one you used at the 55.30 mark? It's quite powerful.
Yes! Its called Portal Latrop from Dex1200 Thanks for watching and commenting. Some of the songs in here are original and I was proud of the work our partner Circle Tone did for this project.
@@HistoryCity1 thanks!
@@bettyngaruiya You got it! Let me know if you need anything else.
Einstein made a few speeches in public forums about the dangers of nuclear energy. The politicians and lawmakers weren't interested in the U.S in what he said. Oppenheimer was a poster boy of the nuclear program of the United states jump-started in about 1942. A car with a dead battery can be jump started with the good battery of another car with a jumper cable. The American atom bomb program was jump started in about 1942 when two academic scientists showed up at the white House with about 50 papers of the Soviet atom bomb. The Soviet atom bomb was designed by a Soviet team led by Egor Kurchatov between 1936 and 1942. During a visit to the White House in about 1942, Robert Oppenheimer said he needed 3 months notice in early 1942 approximately, in order to quit his job and to enlist himself in the re-design and re-manufacture of the Soviet atom bomb designed by the Soviet team of dissident nuclear scientists within the Soviet Union. President Roosevelt asked the two academic scientists in about 1942 why there so many papers on nuclear air blast calculations in the smuggled papers on the Soviet atom bomb. the bundle had about 50 pages approximately. The two academic scientists rightly guessed that these air blast calculations were a delaying tactics by the dissident scientists of the Soviet Union to delay the manufacture of he Soviet atom bomb. which made up to 70 percent of the papers handed over to the white House. President Roosevelt made it very clear that he wants an American with a German last name to be the poster boy of the nuclear program of the US. Kurchatov himself was a dissident scientist. He looked more like a beach boy surfing a surf board as a young man. Egor as a young man also looked like a slim fraternity boy in any college in the US. Average fraternity man in any college across the US used to be fat. About a decade or two ago, college fraternities in the US made it a requirement that all new fraternity members be slim or muscular and not fat any more. Later, he also started looking like a mad scientist as he aged. Oppenheimer was hesitant to join the nuclear program, as he someone told him as a child that he had a German last name. *** In 1942, two theoretical physics from a country hear Holland or Denmark showed up at the White House with detailed blueprints of the Soviet atom bomb along with air blast calculations. President Roosevelt was suddenly highly interested. Two academic scientists from Holland or some other small country near Holland or Denmark visited the White House along with blueprints of the Soviet atom bomb, and offered to become project managers of the American nuclear program. President Roosevelt told Oppenheimer that he needed an American with a German last name as the project manager. Why, If the President finds out that Hitler may use the atom bomb against the US, then President Roosevelt may be obliged to order the use of atom bombs against Berlin. So President Roosevelt wanted a scientist with a German last name to lead the American nuclear program. Einstein had also talked about the dangers of nuclear energy in public. No politician or lawmaker in the US listened to the nerdy scientist named Einstein who looked like a mad scientist. The President listened to the two visiting academic scientists from Central European country who came to the White House with a bundle of papers and blueprints of the Soviet atom bomb and air blast calculations of the Soviet nuclear weapons program in 1942..
Oh, wow. This whole thing made relevant sense. Thank you.
Thanks Leslie !
I can see how the Nagasaki bomb use, just 3 days after Hiroshima can be criticized. Japan was wrecked by the conventional fire bombings, their war industries were decimated, famine was at hand; time would’ve forced Hiro Hito to seek an honorable unconditional surrender under threat of another “most cruel bomb.” 30 days would’ve been a reasonable wait.
The Nagasaki bomb didn't sit well with Oppenheimer either. He knew though it wasn't up to him. I think the belief was at the time was that had the US dropped the second bomb, there was no denying the effectiveness of the bomb.
@@HistoryCity1 Certainly, but with a 30 day ultimatum, would they have challenged that threat? I read that the Truman decision was influenced by his Midwest (I forgot the exact quote) conservative resolve?
@@johnnash5118 I remember once reading something similar about Truman that he had something like a no non sense Missouri sense. That's a really interesting question about Japan though. It's possible that since the days and weeks more and more people died, which was far more than the first day of the blast, maybe the Japanese learning it was not 200 plus thousand and not the initial 50k believed to be dead would have sunk in more. It's hard to know though.
Japan refused to surrender even after Hiroshima, I believe. Japanese civilians were told to fight to the death if Japan was invaded. Hirohito could’ve surrendered, he didn’t. He was God to his people.
The modern trend of material civilization is to increase the degree of the feverish material condition, which has therefore reached the point of 107 in the form of atomic energy, with the foolish politicians crying that at any moment the world may go to hell. That is the result of the advancement of material knowledge, and of the neglect of the most important part of life, the culture of spiritual knowledge.
Śrī Īśopanisad.
The idea of mass material possessions is not new to modern society. This has been around all over the world for thousands of years. It was the industrial revolution where we lost a lot of our connections to culture and nature at scale that is scary.
No he doesn't deserve credit as important to the Abomb. Oppenheimer was not even close to the "man behind" the Abomb; he didn't even think atoms could be split until German scientists did it. Gen Groves headed the massive Manhattan project; one might call Groves "the man behind the A bomb". Oppenheimer was picked by Groves as the manager of a group that designed the bombs, an important but small part of the project. Germans made all the discoveries that made an a bomb possible. 1. Fission, and 2. U235's importance. Ernst Lawrence identified Plutonium as an easier obtain substitute for U235. Many could have filled Oppenheimer's shoes. As manager of the bomb design he may well be held responsible for the poor security screening and lack of internal security that allows the Russians to obtain these secrets.
He was never a communist.
yes he was, for a while, but he was also a loyal American
His love affairs have 0 effects on his loyalty. He was fair and honest and true enough. Groves was a jack ass under pressure from you guessed it, the usa government.
Harry held the bomb and dropped it twice. Who holds the bomb today?
Angel to some a demon to others!
That is Jornada del Muerto or (day's ) journey of death.
At 54:38 you’ve got the WRONG date of death for Kitty; you have her dying on the same date as J. Robert: Feb. 18, 1967. It’s important to QC your work.
Nice catch, after researching for about 6 months and doing the video for two months, I probably had real tired eyes by the time I got to the 54 min mark. Hopefully it didn't ruin the video for you. I think I just put her face on the wrong slide.
I’m coming here after watching the movie
Good movie!
@HistoryCity1 Interesting & (mostly) enjoyable video. However, overall credibility suffers from the surprising & grating mispronunciation of the names of major figures such as Szilard and Bethe.
Im so glad I found this, I didnt want to see the flashy versian that has just come out. This made him more human.
He wasn’t a communist
thank you
My Father was on the beach in Coney Island on leave, waiting to be called back for the invasion of Japan, when they heard about the bombing. Would he survived that invasion?
What unit was he in? I can look up preliminary battle plans to check his likely involvement. However, the best answer i can ever give you is the bomb likely saved his life.
My father was at Philippines waiting to participate in an invasion when bomb was dropped. Remember Japan was brutal in war, and a never surrender culture. Even after Hiroshima they did not surrender It took a second bomb
Sad story. All around.
Hi @jwilliams3269, I would agree. He certainly railroaded even though he did what was asked of him.
Shocking historical footage of Hiroshima's destruction.😲😲
Hi orintaa6141, those images are crazy right!
No more shocking than the historical pictures of the Tokyo bombing of March 9, 1945. The Tokyo bombing destroyed a larger area and killed more people - it just took about three hours longer.
@@buckhorncortez I think the crazy part is the idea that one plane, and one bomb did all that in nine seconds. The tokyo photos are also hard to stomach.
He did his job for the us government.
i would not want to have somanysouls on my concience....
I think he wore that stress on his face later in life. I think Nolans movie captures that fear.
Really controversial decision to use the bomb. I hate this
Do you mean you don't like the decision to drop the bomb or the video?
Had the bombs NOT been dropped, thousands of American boys would have died.
Was the right decision to drop the bomb. Was is hell.
It was no worse than the fire bombing we were doing in Japan prior to the A-bomb
@@gerrydooley951I bet it was worst for the people who suffered radiation poisoning, from the black rain, had malformed children and died years after having had various cancers or deformities.
this movie as well nice movie in the worlds information in war in freedom time in all worlds msging so nice
Duck & Cover! What a Stupid Idea.. It's bend over & kiss your butt goodbye! I remember doing these drills in school back in the 70's. Know one ever told us about radiation 😢
I remember doing a few of these as a kid in the 90's. Looking back on it now it just seems like somebody was checking a box. Sadly, unless you are outside the blast radius, you have zero chance.
The just don't make nuke-proof school desks today like we had in the 1950s...
I went to elementary school in the 1950's. We didn't do duck-and-cover. Instead, we went to a hallway, where there were no windows, and lay stomach down on the floor, with the head bent to the side and one hand below the face and one hand on the neck. I didn't think these measures would be very effective, but I complied, as did everybody else.
@@jackkomisar458 Hi Jack, I'm from Illinois and I remember doing a very modified version of it. I think looking back on the drills my teachers didn't care about them. Tornadoes were a bigger threat in rural IL.
It’s funny that an Irishman is playing Oppenheimer in the movie when Oppenheimer was American. If Michael Collins was played by an Englishman or American instead of Liam Neeson, the Irish wouldn’t be happy.
Your comparison is apples to pineapples. In other words, kind of seems related on the surface, but is really nothing alike. There are certain stories that are so deeply cultural and so deeply sensitive that those who have lived that story (the Irish, for example) have every right and expectation to see one of their own bring the story to life. For those who might not know, Michael Collins was a freedom-fighter for his entire nation, eventually ambushed and killed for his actions. Irish people everywhere can either identify, or at least strongly know, who Michael Collins was. Americans, generally speaking of course, likely have little identification with RJO as a fellow American, if they even know who he was (especially before the film).
Hollywood has been using Irish/British actors to portray historical figures for decades. Let me pose a question to you @MRK1973 Who would you have cast to play Oppenheimer? I think Murphy nailed it and will get an oscar nomination.
Matt Damon as General Groves!!!??
I was lookimg forward to seeing this movie until I heard Matt Damon is playing General Groves. I dont know if I could get past that in my mind.
@@RogerWatford I'm pretty sure Matt Damon ended up in this movie because the studio wanted more stars to promote it. Damon is a name, therefore they will write a bigger check. I agree at the end of the day, he was a strange choice for Groves.
I would rather die then have to carry the burden of having created such a weapon. The bomb was a single victory in an endless sea of tragedy and despair...
I understand what you are saying. These things happen in the fog of war. Sometimes the feeling is him or me. That mentality led to the atom bomb
I feel like I know every second of this guy's life after watching, this, the 10th maybe 20th sudden documentary about him. Might not even watch the Nolan version now. Kinda wore out on this guy already.
Have you seen the movie yet? I agree on the fatigue. I spent 6 months researching for this. I have one more video where we talk about the movie. Once that is out, I am moving on from him. Thanks for watching
Because Japan chose not to surrender, Oppenheimer influenced the U.S. government to build the atomic bomb to drop it over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There wasn't a choice but to force Japan to surrender. The bombing was I think a week or a month after Germany surrendered. The point was at the begining was for the U.S. to beat Nazi Germany in the race of the development of atomic bombs. And to be ahead of other countries.
Im going to have to disagree with you here. Oppenheimer didn't influence the government to make the bomb. It was that letter signed by Einstein and other notable physicists. The bomb was dropped on August, about three months after the German surrender. The only country trying to develop an atomic bomb was Germany so they didn't race against a bunch of other countries.
Y so many test on bombs and Y so many test on one man's... life
Oppenheimer's complex legacy as the "Father of the Bomb."
One can make a case for Fermi.
Same story with Dr Nambi Narayan a space scientist at ISRO..was wrongly accused .. tortured and arrested...later proved innocent ..clean...so what.... we lost his talents....wasted ..coz of vested interests.
Thanks for sharing this! Im going to go look him up now.
@@HistoryCity1 There is a movie on him... Rocketry. Blood boils when u watch this.
@@lokashankar2602 do you know where i can find this?
Pendapat : mungkin terdapat unsur yang mampu melambatkan pergerakan laju uranium. Ami
Can somebody translate this?
I was able to translate some of this, which element are you talking about?
The conversation with Chevalier is only half-correct in the way described here. Chevalier told him about a third party (Eltenton) who was connected to the Russians and was hoping to share secrets with them. It wasn't a case of Chevalier approaching him actively to do so, or at least there's been no real evidence or accepted version of history that had him doing so. He (Chevalier) was describing a conversation he had with someone (Eltenton) that had disturbed him, and so he told Oppenheimer. Chevalier was never accused of actively subverting the US (though was blacklisted etc. for being a card-carrying communist). It's kinda nuanced, but a big difference if we want to really remember either men accurately.
Two other small points: 1. Groves brought the uranium from Belgian Congo (in Africa) not from Belgium (which was under Nazi occupation at the time); 2. Its still debated whether what Fuchs gave the Russians really would have made a huge difference in the pace of Russian atomic and H-bomb development (I'm believe it certainly didnt hurt, but its importance is sometimes overstated). Still, ironic that with all that attention on Oppenheimer there was a Russian mole already right under their nose.
You entirely skipped his time at the University of Goettingen in Germany - pivotal for the drama of the "race" with the Germans 👎
I have a little bit of info in there about him studying in Germany getting his PHD. I had a little more, but a copyright strike forced me to cut out about 45 seconds around this time. I'm still hoping to get that section put back in about it. Sorry :(
I grew up in Kentucky and my family was originally from Tennessee, but I remember growing up hearing my mom and grandmother along with my aunt's talk about the Manhattan project "power plants" that are located (in Tennessee) there, killed my great grandfather.....does anyone have any idea what exactly they were talking about?
My family was originally from Oakridge
Can you get me your grandfathers name? Feel free to email me with the information. I might have some ideas. If you have any military info that would help as well.
Luke Roosevelt Stansberry
@@jamiefeltner6398 i will see what i can do this weekend. I have good experience looking into people involved in the war effort. If you could please email me at lchchannel3@gmail.com so we can communicate there. -jase
Between Oppenheimer and Teller the latter was murderer most telling, and to this day should be exposed as the bringer of poison and trauma to all generations like myself since, and the religiosity of both is appalling.
Have you ever heard the song "The Catalyst" By Linkin Park? I think that is a good representation of the last legacy of the Manhatten Project.
OIh8 Teller but Stanley Kubrick didn't, which is how we got such a great movie out of both of them.
James Chadwick was the father of the bomb Oppenheimer wanted and got the glory
Maybe the grandfather or uncle :)
Respectfully disagree, it was Leo Szillard who first realized the potential for an atomic explosive.
@@bearowen5480 I get what you are saying especially with his role in the letter to FDR, but I don't think we will ever truly know who had the idea first to make an atomic bomb.
@@HistoryCity1 I commend to you Pullitzer Prize For History winner, "THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB" by Richard Rhodes. Rhodes asserted that Szillard was the originator of the concept, and in the first chapter, details the month and year that while crossing a street in London that the idea first popped into his head. His account convinced me.
@@bearowen5480 I see what you are saying. I just think from it becoming an idea in theory to the practical had a lot of combined scientist along the way that contributed to it. John Crofton and Ernest Walton first split the atom etc. Szilard was building on what Rutherford wrote. That's why I jokingly referred to Szilard as grandfather.
Duck and Cover! What a joke! Only in America! If your lucky, you might leave a "shadow" on the wall or floor.
Those videos are the definition of cringe. They are hard not to laugh at.
Jornada del Muerto Dead Man's Journey.
No. Highway of the Dead.
After hearing the claims that Oppenheimer had joined the Communist Party and that Jean Tatlock was a physicist, I stopped watching.
He did join the communist party. However he was not a communist. I don't believe i wrote jean tatlock was a communist. Do you have a time stamp for that?
I found it. I wrote psychiatrist and i think jack read physicst. Sorry
@@HistoryCity1 There is credible evidence, which I found after reading your reply, that Oppenheimer did join the Communist Party. The question is not settled and I am not qualified to discuss it. I retract that part of my comment.
However, it seems to me that if one joins the Communist Party, that means that one is Communist. It would be a good subject for debate.
Please read my earlier comment again. I did not say that you said that Jean Tatlock was a Communist.
@@georgefleming864 i didn't mean to write she was a communist. Sorry
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This documentary is way better than the 3 hour movie. It contains all I needed to know without the little drama details of the movie, which is actually pretty boring by the way.
Biggest assassin ever.
Ha! That's one way to look at him.
Biggest HERO, you mean, right? 🤨 🇺🇸
Phony docudrama footage spoils this.
I tried my best to get historical footage but i had to fill an hour somehow. Im sorry the PBS show footage ruined it for you. I do appreciate you taking the time to watch though
The war over , why still kill so many innocent civilians. Evil people 😬
The war wasn't over Japanese were prepared to fight to the death.
@@HistoryCity1 then fight Japanese army not innocent civilians and children that had nothing to do with the war.
Can u imagine being a parent of one of those boys being killed in the invasion of japan and then learning that we had an atom bomb that could have stopped the war without an invasion but we didnt use it? Now multilpy that by 500,000 parents leaning this news. Also, there would have been many more people on both sides killed if we invaded japan and won a year later.
And japan would never have surrendered without the stom bomb being used and would have to have been invaded.
"Atom" bomb.
Glad napoleon Attila the Hun ect didn’t do anything Japan got in late on the action Doesn’t seem quite fair
What?
This has so much extra filler garbage has to make it unwatchable
PURE EVIL
who?
tell that to the many chinese americans and english that felt for an instant the cruel blade of the japs samurai swords and more--the PEOPLE of Japan are ultimately responsible for the use of the bombs---none other!!!!
This narrator mispronounces words by the dozen. Sorry but he won't get a subscription from me.
Too much sizzle and not enough steak. Way too much mood setting and padding. Poor show.
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. I appreciate you taking the time to give feedback though. I'll keep that in mind when I go to make the next one. I was going for casual audiences and wanted to show a lot of the videos I found making this. Hopefully you give us a second chance someday.
@@HistoryCity1 Pretty sure that comment was about a certain current theatrical release, not your video.
Nice use of the 1980 BBC series. A much better coverage of the subject than Nolan's noisy screensaver.
How was he a communist? You lost instant credibility
It's a stupid documentary and of course it's from the US perspective. As for Oppenheimer being a communist hey never fully committed to a communist party 100% did he? There were many other thinking usually students who explored the idea and explored it's benefits as many others did before World war 2 but of course it the US has major problems with communism because it is the most capitalist country in the world the US bloody hates communism. Maybe if he had Nazi or fascist it may have been different. And let's not forget at the end of WW2 and even after. Let's not forget the US pilfered all the most excellent scientists working in the Nazi party and demanded Japan hand over their scientific information so that they could use their science statistics to increase the US space project and other science projects.
At least he held onto long-term credibility.
He wasn't a communist by definition. He associated with communist but he saw himself more as a new deal democrat
@@HistoryCity1wasn’t a communist by definition huh? Yet you blatantly label him a communist just under four minutes in. Have some damn intellectual and historical integrity if you are going to make biographical videos about people. Embarrassing look.
@@HistoryCity1 yeah cause in good ol' 'murica anything just slightly socialistic is automatically communism
the land of the free?.... more like the land of the delusional