How the Atomic Bomb Destroyed the Life of its Creator
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*Who else is excited about the upcoming film on Oppenheimer?!*
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Carl Sagan, please! Thanks for all your hard work!
Buckminster Fuller: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
Blaise Pascal
Fritz pearls
Jack the Ripper.
He died during the height of the Cold War, where tensions didn’t seem to be cooling down between the US and the USSR. Oppenheimer died believing that he was responsible for the end of the entire human race.
How existensionally depressing! Poor man. I hope he found solace in God before he died.
He's not responsible because someone more brilliant than him will invent a Dome's Day super weapon that will surely wipe-out all living creatures on Earth with only one explosion. It's a question of WHEN; not an IF.
Ridiculously sad, knowing such a genius and deep down not bad human being died thinking he possibly created a thing that would kill the human race and still might obviously, but didn’t at that point of course
@@donhuang9855doubt it was only possible due to the need of it and insane funding there will never be a need for a dooms day device
@@donhuang9855 That's Sam Altman with Chat GPT 4 or the entire Google team with their Bard AI. AGI will be the last invention of humanity.
One of my grandpa's friends knew Oppenheimer.
He said that when he met with Oppenheimer after the bombs dropped, he was, and I quote, "nothing but a shell of the man he once was, he was haunted by grief and consumed by guilt, it was like he wasn't there, like he was a ghost".
He dreamed of creating the strongest weapon known to our species.
And he succeeded.
DREAM...more like a nightmare.
@@charleswest6372 Damn right...
gamora : what did it cost?
@@artaxerxes360 Yes.
someone said that "mouse wouldn't make a mousetrap but humanity creates the atom bomb " 😂🤣
He died believing, he had become death , the destroyer of worlds. I cannot even begin to fathom the pain and guilt he went through. RIP
And you can't imagine all the pain he caused millions and millions of people!?
@@terranotra that's the point he didn't
May he rot
@@terranotra His creation stopped wars and he knew the pain he caused. You're a snowflake.
@@terranotraif he America would not have devoloped nuclear weapons the Germans would have continued the world war for more than a decade and we all know the barbarism of the Japanese army especially in China, all over the world there was destruction and famines especially in British and french colonies if the war would have continued for a decade it would have led to total destruction
After watching the movie just last night, I have to say I am both humbled and terrified by what this man achieved. Anyone who thinks his decisions were easy to make are fooling themselves. Shame that it took a movie so that many people like me knew about his incredible story
On the contrary, i'm glad that people know Oppenheimer's story through such a great movie, a Nolan's one at that. It leaves that much of a greater impact for people as opposed to just reading wikipedia articles or watching documentaries.
On the flip side perhaps he also got too much credit as the 'father' of the atomic bomb. MP was a giant collaboration with many genius scientists who worked out the theory and the equipment needed... They most likely still would've gotten that bomb without Oppenheimer.
@@PampiTayang-mq9wvagreed
He was betrayed by US government.
The movie gave me the same vibe as shin godzilla. People going to see a movie for a explosion, but alot of people left complaining as how it was boring. I walked out of it feeling horrified by the fact the creator of such a weapon was so terrified of his creation that his own country basically seen him as a hero and eventually failed him. It makes you realize what American politics were at that time. People need to see the horror of this movie, it's wasn't exactly the bomb.
gosh, I simply cannot even imagine the pain this man went through. he dedicated his whole life to something only to regret it later. Cillian Murphy will surely do justice to his story. cannot wait for the movie.
Christopher Walken can play him in the later years
Cillian is going to be amazing. Just in the trailer you can see the glare of regret of what his intelligence invented and what it meant.
Unless Nolan kills us all while shooting the movie
@@mrosos7308 Nolan needs to blow up a couple of nukes cuz CGI is too fake
peaky blinders 2
That first shot of him on camera... you rarely capture deadness, terror, and despair like that in someone's eyes. It's truly chilling. You feel terribly for the guy
Motherfucker, he created a WMD that killed countless people. What do you mean by, "You feel terribly for the guy,"?
Nope.
You see Despair in his eyes. Remorse. He helped create Something that has destructive power never before seen. But I believe the original Blueprints are in Ancient writings. So much is spoken of Ancient Wars an weapons of Mass destruction in the Bible an the Bhagavad-Gita, they were there for the elite to decipher an utilize this knowledge. Man always weaponizes it's discoveries. We are a Sad Race.
@@marchellochiovelli7259 THANK YOU! Hilarious. Feel terrible for a man who vanquished 140k souls. OK!!!!!
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 he didn't vanquish 140k souls wtf
Unpopular opinion: If it weren't for the atomic bomb, in the last seven decades, we could have easily seen another world war and three or four times more wars across the world. The sheer power of the atomic bomb prevented global powers from engaging in direct wars, which could have been devastating if anyone had used a nuclear weapon. The fear of nuclear weapons has kept the world more peaceful than you might think.
I totally agree!
facts
IMHO I'm not sure if you can attribute it fully to the atomic bomb. Yes, it's a major deterrent. And atomic bombs being possessed by multiple global powers is critical for checks and balances of aggression. But what global powers can't achieve through direct wars they've not hesitated to try through proxy wars. Look at the amount of proxy wars going around affecting millions of people globally. Atomic bomb or not, the global powers wage their wars for their interests. IMO even if atomic bombs weren't in the picture, today's heavily trade-reliant world deters global powers from engaging each other in direct conflict (some effects of which we are seeing with Russia's invasion of Ukraine) because no power can outlive a long drawn out war.
@@udarasamarasinghe8811 The EU is/was heavily The EU is/was reliant on Russian natural gas - for about two decades, but that didn't stop a war from starting 13 months after Biden was sworn in, AFTER 4 YEARS OF PEACE IN UKRAINE WITH TRUMP AS PRESIDENT.
The problem now is that the next world war will be the last
The most captivating part of the movie was when he met President Truman, telling him how guilty he was and blood on hands - what Truman said after that was chilling - that while Oppenheimer made the bomb, he approved and chose the cities to me bombed - basically saying “you are too self centered, if anyone who has blood on his hands, it’s me”.
I'm curious about what really happened during the conversation, as in what the context behind Truman's context was. To me it could mean 1. Truman was taking credit for the decision of the use of the bomb and ending the war, saying that Oppenheimer was being too self-centered. Or 2. Taking accountability and responsibilities for the weight of the decision, that Oppenheimer wasn't the person who should bear the consequences.
In the movie, Truman was portrayed as the former, but that's Nolan's interpretation. I still give the benefit of the doubt on what Truman really meant. I'm not a historian or not even American, with no knowledge on what kind of a leader Truman was, so it's just pure curiosity.
@@bunfaceI mean it could be both
Truman being a jerk - he was definitely self centered ( Truman, that is). Oh well, never one of my favorite presidents anyway and most of them have been mediocre
Truman was trying to make Oppenheimer feel better. More like, you are not carrying all the burden yourself. Don't take it all upon yourself.
I really couldn't care less about the prideful and arrogant Truman or " leaders" that don't understand or care about humanity in general. - most POTUSES
Rest easy, Robert. Humanity found other ways to destroy itself. More painful ways.
No.......this is the only way of destroying all of humanity. Hell even with nuclear war humans will still find a way to survive
And what are those ?
@@John76125 Only Devil knows.
The destruction is enough for several life times, kind of excessive and sad.
@@John76125 make it up
“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.”
― Bhagavad Gita
Can you elaborately explain it please
@@aayushdoke5895 means, you're only responsible for what you have done, not for the outcomes.
Yeah I am Hindu too but to be honest no matter how genius the scientist was he clearly cannot hide behind Krishna's quote he made the bomb knowing perfectly well what it can do.So he was responsible cus he knew what the outcome would be like it's not like he didn't and something happened that he didn't intend to do
Bullshit. That's just a weak justification for your actions.
@@cookingworldworld3405 that was his duty
Just watched Oppenheimer last night, can't believe how Nolan portrayed his life so accurately on screen. Almost every incident mentioned in the video is a part of the movie!
Nolan literally copy pasted this video.
@@throwaway326as a figure of a speech maybe, but Nolan has been working on Oppenheimer since almost two full years ago now. They both just included most of the important facets of Oppenheimer’s life.
Most of what you saw in the movie was just the typical government line and Hollywood. Impressions, they really don't tell you who the man was. Really? Isn't all that accurate?.
The way he was treated by his friends, colleagues, and the government after they no longer had any use for him was disgraceful and gut-wrenching.
My physics professor in college worked with Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer would break into the secure safe and mess things up just to mess with the security guards. He had a great sense of humor along with his great intelligence. He wanted to have the Japanese invited to a neutral island and see a detonation of an atomic bomb. My prof was the first person to have a chain reaction go critical and survive. The two parties ahead of him were killed. He did it by remote 3 miles away.
You are confusing Richard Feynman with Oppenheinmer. In his "biography" Surely You Must Be Joking Mr. Feynman, he talks of his jokes which included safe cracking. In one incident he left a half eaten sandwich inside a secure safe. Oppenheimer was a dry bureaucrat, a brilliant mind though nonetheless.
You are probably correct since I do remember that story about the sandwich. Interestingly enough, my professor got his pHd in physics from U.C. Berkeley paid for by the air force. He knew all the men who flew the Enola Gay. I took physics in the spring of 1963. A lot of water under the bridge.
@@young1939 Oppie was a scumbag! He tried to have extramarital sex with Linus Pauling's wife, and she rejected his advances. Linus' ended his friendship with Oppie, and Linus' wife said that Oppie had an infatuation, not with her, but with Linus. Gross. He was a gaye, dramatic, Hollywood actor - a "cocktail scientist". To say he "invented" fission weapons is incorrect! If he had that skill, Operation Paperclip would have been aborted, and the German scientist's would have been imprisoned and or executed. Oppie, Einstein, and many other US scientist's were flaunted in the tabloids unrightfully. They are both extremely mediocre.
Vanneshuer( Sp) Bush...
Is the behind the scenes creator and saw to the bomb being used even when Japan was on its knees.
He was motivating work on the Bomb before the war began ......
He achieved all the inter- office DC connection of dots , like a gremlin.
( Bush family claims is non- relation....)
@Destroying Angel I kinda doubt that.
R. Oppenheimer was a genius. He was one of the most advanced scientists in his time. His greatest strength was in physics.
Unbelievably gifted!!He probably had an IQ above 160...
"Advanced"? He was a war criminal.
Well, he was a physicist.
but rotten to the core...you have to be to create something soo evil and cruel....its one of the worst ways to die...syour skin melts off and then you die slowly and painfully...my mind just can comprehend that someone created this knowing that politicians who are going to control these weapons arent always moral individuals
@@HK-gm8pe In an atomic bomb explosion most people die instantly
Andrey Sakharov, one of the creators of thermonuclear bomb, shared a similar experience and feelings. He went on to become a human rights advocate but was hunted by his own discoveries for the rest of his life.
At least his wasn't used to nuke civs
Fun fact, Truman hated Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer talked about having blood on his hands, but Truman, the guy who ordered the bombs dropped, said the blood on his hands was a million times greater
Yes , Truman was a bit jerky like Strauss, Robb, and Teller
He also called Oppenheimer a crybaby cretin 😬💀
@RoGameReview yeah. That was really unexcusable
I never liked Truman and after hearing how he treated Oppenheimer, I still don't. If POTUSES don't feel they can be decent to citizens, why be POTUS at all since the position involves representing citizens . On the other hand, I like Oppenheimer a lot , particularly after reading up on him, including a biography by Abraham Pais. He was incredibly intelligent.
If you want a glimpse of all Potuses from back in the era watch The Butler😮😮. It says it all.
See this may be random but this is why I’m always a big fan of Chris Nolan, the subjects he chooses for his films are so important and quite honestly I probably wouldn’t have looked in to Oppenheimer if this movie wasn’t coming out but his life should be studied
Everyone know Oppenheimer. He was the head of the Manhattan project. Who are you? Gen Z? Another important project during WWII was the development of radar at MIT.
@@benl3260the atomic bomb it’s self is well known but I’ve never learned bat Oppenheimer so calm ur selves
@@benl3260I hate people like you, I knew about Oppenheimer but jeez don’t so ignorant to think everyone knows everything. Everyone different be happy that people have a chance to hear about r him
@@benl3260wtf bro trying to gatekeep?
@@benl3260what would we even do with the information?? There’s enough anxiety going around these days.
While He was stunned by the sheer awesome raw power of the Bomb, he felt great shame after the bombs were dropped. Knowing that such a weapon can cause massive destruction on a scale never before seen and kill so many people made him feel heavy in guilt.
In his interview video. You can see that while he is talking there is so many emotions going on not just in his words but in his face to. All of this movements told an emotion.
Actually, that video of him talking about it occurs before the bombs are dropped in Japan. They did a test to see the yield of a nuclear bomb a few months before the first bomb is dropped in Japan and that's when he realises what he has created.
Well his créations were the reason for peace since the cold war
@@willg1088 Is fear, truly peace?
@@Iliadic if being brave means ur stupid then yes fear means being smart
Screw all that gave that an ignorant thumbs up…..you obviously weren’t in the Pacific in 1945, with our Navy, Marines and Army,….fighting the Sucidal Jap
My dad used to tell me that just because I can do a thing doesn't mean you should, think Oppenheimer. Everytime I am about to do something simply because I can...I hear his words. Thanks dad❤
i watched the movie yesterday and i was really such a heartbreaking moment.. u can see the pain and regret in his eyes. cilian murphy did such a great job playing the character
Which movie
@@mahwishkhan9301 Oppenheimer
Can't thank you enough for giving me a look at history from another angle. I am 67 and although I'm excited that my granddaughter will have the opportunity to work on earth, the moon or Mars, I also fear she/we will not make it that far due to the governments lack of wisdom and vision of what is most important for humanities survival. Another brilliantly done video. Thank you.
Cindy is Great! So, are you still riding at 67? I'm 68.
I had a '72 Kawasaki 500 H1-B Orange. The Royal Enfield must be NICE!
@@davidmacphee3549 David so glad to meet you. I rode a 79 Kawasaki KZ750 for years and won't hesitate to do a 1,000 mile day on it. The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 is hands down the best bike I've had. A very simple, old school bike mechanically. Scheduled maintenance is extremely cheap or I'm betting you can do it all yourself, I do. I'm full time traveling with everything I own strapped to my bike and it handles the mountain twisties with ease. 650cc with a 6 speed gearbox I've had it to 105 once and she was still accelerating a little. Mileage on normal back roads has been mid 60s mpg, but not in TX ;-) I have no desire to get anything bigger. 27,000 miles on her now and no big problems. I'm figuring this will be my last bike. At $6,200 if something happens to this one I'll just buy another one. If you want to chat see my About page for email address. I love talking about My Royal Enfield.
people 67 years ago thought they would work on the moon or mars today
I’m 19
Give me some general advice
@@meocats I know. I'm like Elon Musk, so frustrated and disappointed that we stopped exploring and have just been going around in circles around the earth for years. Hope we succeed now
"The stress of gradwork threw him into depression" Woah now that's an inspiration for all the struggling grad students. Don't feel less of yourself and hang in there.
I heard the same thing about Nikola Tesla if my memory is correct.
I have a submission tomorrow 😅
You to can one day make the world hide in fear of your monstrous invention.
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
@@Trentstone121 hell yeah
While watching Nolan's Oppenheimer in theatre, I had tears dripping from my eyes when Oppenheimer is shown getting the Enrico Fermi Award. Had known about it (thanks to this video) but it was something else to see it filmed..... Cillian Murphy is so frail, thin (like Oppenheimer was in his later years) and after being through such a huge mental ordeal of carrying the weight of all those deaths, later being treated as a spy by the government (that used his creation to end their war), getting his security clearance revoked....the injustice of everything and they expected to make it right by giving him one award?
Like the movie said, they didn't do it for Oppenheimer (they had already destroyed him by them). They did it for themselves.
Can't help but feel incredibly sad for Oppenheimer. Glad that the world can know about him through Nolan's work.
Thank you Newsthink for making this video.
After leaving Oppenheimer, this is a really cool watch and also a firm affirmation of how dedicated the movie was to actually telling his story
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should"
He seems very remorseful here, knowing that what he created not only killed but caused immense pain and suffering for millions of people, and could do so again. I’m sure he wishes that the bomb hadn’t been used on civilians, although that decision wasn’t his to make.
he was forced he died truly believing he had ended the world since his death was at the height of the cold war, he died with no peace of mind.
I really liked the narration and the visuals of this video, as well as the content. It reminded me of a poster I made about a scientist I now can't remember, in university. Fun memory, and really enjoyable video, thanks!
the quality , the presentation and everything is top-notch. hats off
I remember the death of Oppenheimer, at that time I was in the military and I was in the rec room of the barracks when I saw the announcement of his death, and later heard of his cremation and Katie spreading his ashes over Oppenheimer Beach it was a sad time for the family. There was a lot of sad time in the family in those years!!!
Obviously, you’re his relative
Yeah, what about the other families he helped wipe out. Cry me a river.
@@marchellochiovelli7259 and what about all the families the Japanese destroy, they destroyed far more lives than he did, someone has to stop them !!!
Outstanding Documentary. Kiitos
@@apexxxx10 there is a lot more to the story that they don't tell !!!
Cindy, you're a great story teller. Your videos, they're a treat to watch. They are so well researched and I am grateful that I stumbled upon your channel. You make RUclips a better place. A better, knowledgeable place. Thank you for your sheer efforts.
I appreciate it!
Vannevar.....Bush was father of the A Bomb.... he pushed the bomb through DC offices...... lf you can get the first book written about Los Alamos... in its glossary Vannevar.... has 20 references at least .
Vannevar... was at every Behind the scenes meeting....,
@@Newsthink i his death or Kala quote is misplaced. I think he meant in a way like he is fulfilling his dharma and comparing himself to Arjuna who too was forced to fullfill his dharma.
Well said. Exactl,y what I was thinking. Cindy, you have a great talent :)
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
May he rest in peace, this new movie shed light on his story that was well deserved. Absolutely brilliant and saddening at the same time
The information you guys showed here, it's the exact flow of the movie. Wow , great work.
This was the first profile on Dr. Oppenheimer that I've ever watched. Thank you for sharing him with us.
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
I've always found it so ironic how some people who murdered millions are celebrated while others doing the same are villianized. I read a quote that said "history is written by the winners" and it seems its really true. Once you win, all your reasons are somehow justified while the other party's reason are made to seem dehumanizing. Of course i understand that it was an action that was necessary and that most of them did what they did to end the war. But it still seems so disgusting to me to see people responsible for the death of millions being celebrated regardless of the reason.
As I understand nobody on that project wanted to do it. The government approached them that it was either going to be US or the Nazis. A very compelling argument if you ask me.
@@lakecountynaturalist7617 Still they did it. Your argument is the same as humanising the Nazi soldiers saying they just followed orders
LMAO, japan lost but hey, they dont like to talk about their war crimes.
You realize without this bomb the axis would’ve won the war and we probably wouldn’t be talking in a comment section on RUclips right (that is if your from the US)
Well the problem with that saying is that it isn’t true. Coalition forces won the Iraq war but if you ask people if it was justified I believe most of those answers would be no. The Entente won the first world war and yet in France and Britain the war is condemned as a senseless slaughter. The fact that you hold the opinion you have is a testament to how the statement isnt true because the information that allowed you to form your opinion was not censored.
Great documentary. Thank you for making it!
Thank you a lot for this very informative video, also I'm into your warm and clear voice that made me keep listening to. I was curious about Oppenheimer as well as his roll in the history, since i intent to watch his biography movie in the following week. Then I fortunately found your chanel :) and was amazed by a bunch of interesting videos about brilliant people that you carefully created. Keep it up! You're doing great.
When Oppenheimer had his Ph D examination, one of his proffesors went out, and when he was asked how was the exam going, he answered, I was lucky to get out, because Oppenheimer was starting yo ask questions to his examinators.
LoL that's awesome 😂😂😂
What's an examinator? I know what an examiner is . . . 🤫
@@dougball328Ze are cybernetic examiners from ze future!
I have been following this channel for a long time and I think this is one of the best videos yet. I did not realise that the vide was 16 minutes long. These are masterful mini documentaries! I am curious to see what better comes out next.
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
just another propaganda from us establishment, first they used the scientist then when he revolted they made him appear to be some evil just like wiki leaks founder and Snowden. most evil country if I says ever exits is USA and its people, as without the people support this could not have been possible.
00:00 Oppenheimer's haunted by the implications of the first nuclear weapon
01:03 Oppenheimer's early life and education
02:00 Oppenheimer's research and work in theoretical physics
03:19 Oppenheimer's role in the Manhattan Project
05:06 The devastating impact of the atomic bomb
06:52 Oppenheimer's guilt and later role in atomic policy
08:00 Oppenheimer's suspicion and loss of security clearance
13:33 Oppenheimer's life in Princeton and his declining of a new trial to regain his security clearance.
14:05 Oppenheimer's recognition and awards, his battle with throat cancer, and his death.
14:57 Oppenheimer's ashes being spread in Oppenheimer Beach and the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons today.
15:46 The Doomsday Clock and the urgency to address the threat of destroying our world.
A great synopsis of Oppenheimer's life, movies in the past didn't do his reputation justice. Thank you for a more realistic glimpse into his life, and for setting the record straight. ⚛️ ☀️ ✨ 🏝️
The atomic bomb didn't destroy Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer destroyed Oppenheimer. He was brilliant. He was insane to a degree (tried to poison his professor and strangle his friend) Chronic chain smoker and suffered from malnutrition. He weighed 115 lbs at one point at 6' tall. Einstein warned him not to get involved with the government on this project. I read "American Prometheus" and can't wait for the movie release. He was brilliant.
Where is it recorded that Einstein gave him that specific advice??
Additionally, Einstein later regretted presenting the letter to FDR that was the beginning of the Manhattan Project. Once he realized the Germans could not make the bomb, he saw no point in the project.
This was absolutely fantastic. I am really looking forward how Nolan will put all this in a cinema movie
Oh another masterpiece
He will ask cinema halls to detonate real bombs for realism.
@@Zen-ds4od how do you feel now about the big news that “dropped” a couple days ago hahaha
@@dirtyphon3sex Omg, my heart literally skipped a bit when I saw your comment. I was scrolling nonchalantly through the comment section, mostly interested in seeing what other people find interesting about Opp. story, then few comment about the upcoming movie - which I didn't know Nolan was directing.
Then I laughed at Zen's comment for obvious reason but your reply to him scared me for real. I know he (Nolan) goes for realism in his films and I assumed that your comment was related to some practical effects he would want to film but this is a goddamn movie about nukes and bombs much more complicated than ones in his previous movies.
You made me go google in a second just Nolan and movie and the second article was Variety which explains what his plan was about practical effects he favors over VFX with his cinematographer.
I guess he already shot the scene in New Mexico for the Trinity test, I couldn't figure out, given it was a quotation from Nolan about his plans, I didn't read another article to see if it was already shot.
So, I do apologize for the long reply, but I also thank you for the scare and mostly about the info.
Since Zen is not replying, how do you feel about Nolan's prerogative in making this particular movie?
I really want to know, of course If you don't mind and have time on your hands.
P.S. Without this comment I would have just leave a comment for the content creator.
Thank you for your work and I'm glad I found your channel.
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
Very impressive and fascinating dude. They should make a movie about this guy’s life.
Everyone should see this movie. This man was so unstable mentally. He did stop Japan and ended that war. He suffered many losses afterwards both personally and professionally. Unfortunately we all have lived in fear ever since. Crazy.
He was a pawn of the U.S. Military
Love your channel. I have been following your channel for more than a year. It really sparks a curiosity in me and these biographical documentaries are really good. We would love to see a video on Vincent van Gogh someday. btw love your video quality and editing skills.
A terribly painful eureka moment for him. This really is the true definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Explain the topics in such way that viewers can't even think of skipping the advertisement.. ❤️
The whole Oppenheimer movie summary in 17 minutes
Couldnt stand that movie, just like barbie
Excellent biopic. Even with the advantage to look back through time and review records and events all these years later who really knows the truth. The lives of people are complicated and so very nuanced.
I love how much I’m learning from this, thank you
Fun fact: Robert Oppenheimer’s third cousin, Alan Oppenheimer, is a legendary voice actor best known as the voice of Skeletor in the original He-Man cartoon.
Oppenheimer wasn't the only scientist who worked on the atomic bomb.John Archibald Wheeler, Richard Feynman,Freeman Dyson and another scientist with the surname Teller also worked on the Bomb.
werner heisenberg too but he failed
@@arifhadiyanmohdzahrain9196 Well, he was not given the resources and probably had more respect for humanity and intellectuals of all faiths than the prevailing regime in Germany.
Edward Teller.
Collective effort...
John von Neumann!
this channel is great . im always studying but whenever I see a post I take a break to watch :)
Loved the video. Great work!
Love the narration. Just subscribed❤
Absolutely love your channel. Logged in to another account and had missed your content. I'm now binge watching.
The man is getting a movie, can’t wait to see it. Thank you for this concise insight on Oppenheimer life.
just another propaganda from us establishment, first they used the scientist then when he revolted they made him appear to be some evil just like wiki leaks founder and Snowden. most evil country if I says ever exits is USA and its people, as without the people support this could not have been possible.
The actor they picked for Oppenheimer was fantastic
I suppose it's a good example of how we often make decisions without knowing - or even being able to know - the consequences. And then somehow have to live with those consequences and find a way to go 'oh well' and hope that the community can carry the responsibility together. I can see why the guy distanced himself somewhat. Zygmunt Bauman put it really well in his sociological descriptions of why and how diffusion of responsibility happens (cf. his book 'Modernity and the Holocaust'). You have to go on living somhow. It's not pretty but it's a psychological survival instinct.
The only person in the world who truly understands the power of his creation..and hes told to make it 1000 times more powerful. I dont think anyone will ever see the horror he must have experienced in his mind to come to that realisation, it truly is unfathomable to humans to really understand power on that scale, to really understand it our brains arent capable..its like understanding what a million is, we get the concept but we dont fully visualise that full million in our head, our brains literally arent capable of it....but he had an insight that most wouldnt have, how could we ever understand something so vast. Its terrifying.
Well done - an enlightening story on one of the more important figures in modern history. I got a lot out of watching it; several facts I was unaware of involving this very interesting man, and a clearer view into the circumstances and the context in which they occurred.
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
The Manhattan project only started on the insistence of Mark Oliphant who was an Australian physicist, and the number one kingpin was German physicist Klaus Fuchs and without his input the atomic bomb would never have been developed, in fact Britain knew how to develop an atomic weapon at the time but didn't have the time and resources during and immediately after WW2.
I cant imagine another actor nailing this great historic character than Cillian. Cant wait to watch Nolan’s masterpiece in IMAX.
Always amazes me how really smart people can also be very stupid in ways normal people wouldn't.
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Very well done. The film Day One is the best chronicle of the entire history of the gadget's creation.
It’s crazy that my school in Germany hasn’t told us ANYTHING about oppenheimer at all. Yet you do get topics like the „use“ of the atomic bomb, how it was created and all but his name doesn’t get dropped anywhere.
I’m glad that this has gotten recommended to me randomly.
German school don't cover much of this topic. They tell you for years from mideval emperors but the newer history comes far too short
Oppenheimer created the bomb with many Jewish Physicists to throw on German cities but you guys quit before the bomb was finished. Can you imagine Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg completely destroyed and Germans dying of radiation poisoning for years? Good thing you guys gave up, turned chicken, and mustache man put a bullet in his head !!!!!
Can't wait to watch his story next week !
Thankyou for this most informative segment and documentary
His eyes say it all. I have never seen such sadness in my life.
Wow that was a crazy documentrary. It felt like I was in a different world while I watched it. You're amazing :)
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
Funny.
Good job, straight to the point.
I’m here after the movie and all I can say is that Christopher Nolan is a genius and Cillian Murphy deserves an Oscar for his role as Oppenheimer. This movie is truly a masterpiece and I’ve never seen anything like it before.
Imagine creating what is, relative to it’s time, probably the greatest feat of engineering and science every achieved in the history of mankind with the possible exception of metallurgy. And then seeing it used to, in the combined span of seconds, end hundreds of thousands of lives and went on to be the weapon with the easiest potential to end the human race
white people literally love when their own people do the worst. They say Hitler was amazing, Jeffrey Dahmer good guy, Las Vegas shooter troubled. WOW. They always give themselves a pass. Well, I'll be the one to tell you that you're the sickest, most destructive parasites to have ever existed on planet Earth.
why is metallurgy so great?
@@normalizrd because forging metals without metals is incredibly difficult. So much so that we can’t even do it today. And it’s more complex than you think, because to create most forges you at least need metal to carve the stone into a forge. They had to be very very creative with Stone Age tech to mine, extract, and purify ore before smelting it into usable metal. For the tech at the time, it was a leap on par with agriculture.
A pity that the work of scientists in the University of Birmingham England in 1940 is not mentioned. Without their calculations the fission bomb could not have been conceived.
Yes. Their name could have been mentioned.They are unsung heroes behind the scene.But the History would always celebrate the ultimate heroes .
So that's why England didn't produce the first device? Oppenheimer just copied calculations like it was a recipe? The conception was solely in Birmingham? All the world powers were developing this and only the USA pulled it off first, for better or worse.
Thank you for this explosive ( I.had to) presentation. 🏆 🏆
Who is after here NOLANS OPPENHEIMER
Thank you and yours for this outstanding biography of Oppenheimer!
Wasn't just Oppenheimer, was a team of scientists from all over the world including UK, Australia, Germany and a few others
Yes, they were many to develop the bomb, but he was the leader
@@larscp what do you mean leader,?
@@blake9358captain of the team
Why does everything have to be nationalistic? Seems to only be the case whenever America succeeds in anything. People really really don’t like Americans.
@@user09832 The Manhattan project started up on the insistence of Mark Oliphant an Australian physicist from Adelaide, the number 1 kingpin ironically was German born physicist Klaus Fuchs, without his input the bomb would not have been possible during WW2 , unfortunately he was a communist sympathiser which is exactly how the Soviet Union was able to develop a nuclear weapon only years after.
Hooked me to my seat, great narration and visuals. It is a must-watch context video before the movie.
As he died, the Cold War was the closest to be a hot one. Thinking about that his last thought may had been that he is guilty of the destruction of earth is still haunting. I wish he would lived longer to see how the Cold War was about to cool down and eventually starting the disarmament he always propagated. I wished the world would have listened to him sooner, even though you can not deny the fact that nuclear weapons and tactic of scare somehow worked.
R.I.P to all the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It seems he was sidelined because of petty criticisms and perhaps jealousy
I have learnt many new things from this video. Thanks for making this film. The contents are full of amazing knowledge.
Could you share what you learned so we can all learn. Pla
You have done a excelent work in this,
Thank you very much.
Gratitudes and Regards from Bangalore.
this was a great video! thank you
Well researched, quite educative kudos 👏👏👏👏
to me, the irony of Oppenheimer's fear about humanity destroying it's self will come not by a bomb but from the destruction of nature. the very soil we walk on and the very water human bodies depend on are being ruin from our reckless behavior towards nature.
Thank you Cindy. Great Work.
can’t wait to see oppenheimer opening night
Looks great bro, how did you make the slow motion parts not lag?
I love your work! This is excellent.
Yes.
I remember that morning: the explosion was 150 miles away but it was so loud we thought a house on our block had blown up.
*Your Story is a LIE, cuz If TRUE, You wouLd have Had More to say !!!*
How old are you!? At that age you are on RUclips...😁
Poor Oppenheimer he wouldve never guessed what Project Japkiller 3000 would be used for
This was amazing doc very well done
Actually the Manhattan project employed 176,000 people across 100 sites over the entire country, it was the largest physics experiment ever conducted in the history of mankind and the largest wartime project ever conducted. Also very expensive, Chrisron particle accelerator cost more than 300 million just for wiring !!!
300 millions? Wow that's cheap
@@jaxkal9596 Was the wire silver? Due to shortages of copper, Groves had to sign for many millions of dollars of silver, "borrowed" from the US Treasury, to use for wiring.
@@dougball328 yes !!!
@@jaxkal9596 not 300 million in todays money. Adjust it for inflation, also how is 300,000,000 dollars cheap?😂
Except for the development of the B-29 Superfortress bomber which was even costlier and the carrier of the ultimate weapon in 1945
I'd always heard he was a very, very depressed guy. I wonder how much of that he dealt with his whole life, and how much came after The Manhattan Project.
From the recording his eyes looked very dead. I can feel the sadness thru his eyes
To Oppenheimer it was the scientific pursuit that excited him. How it was used was not his decision to make. The same can be said of the inventor of the humble knife. A useful kitchen tool, yet, a deadly weapon if used as such.
Can't wait for the Oppenheimer movie
“Mr oppen we regret to inform you that Japmelter 3000 Megalodon ultrakill has been used in an… unexpected manner.”
I was born on August 8th 1945.
These events have upset me ever since.
God be with you my friend ...
I can’t think of one photograph or video in which Oppenheimer smiles.
Photo at 7:59, slight hint of a smile
The color change at 4:07 was nice!