Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project: The real thing! Splendedly A.I restored and colorized (1945)
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2023
- This film shows original footage about the activities in the New Mexico dessert to develop an atomic weapon. It has been meticulously restored, enhanced and colorized to give a better view of what really went on at Los Alamos in 1945.
In brief: this was a secret project under the name "the Manhattan project" and was lead by physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer under military supervision in the person of General Leslie Groves.
In order for hundreds of scientists to be as active and motivated as possible, an new small town was constructed in the dessert at Los Alamos, where they could live with their entire family.
Exerpt: The actual Trinity test took place at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, about 200 km South of Los Alamos. This facility is now part of the White Sands Missile Range.
It is remarkable to note that Japan was bombed only 20 and 23 days after the one and only (successful) Trinity test conducted on 16 July 1945. At the time of that test there was hardly anymore nuclear material available. Astonishingly The Gun-type "Little Boy" bomb, that was dropped on Hiroshima, was deployed untested! This was done out of pure necessity in view of having run out of uranium.
The "fat man" bomb, that was dropped on Nagasaki, was of the same type as the one used during the Trinity test, i.e. an implosion-type bomb.
In view of the level of development of electronics in 1945, the electronic control of the bomb was an astonishing achievement. To need the bomb to work, 32 high explosive detonator modules, that were mounted around a solid plutonium core, needed to fire inwards at exactly the same time in order to compress the core. The shock wave needed to hit the fissionable core with a precision of microseconds.
Till this day Truman's decision to deploy nuclear weapons is highly controversial. Historians claim that one of the more important reasons to do so was to impress the Russians, who were also rumored of being in the process of developing a nuclear bomb.
Truman himself believed that deploying these bombs saved half a million American plus Japanese lives compared to a continued war on the ground. The question whether he, and others who, to this day, make similar statements were and are right is purely a matter for speculation. No factual conclusions can or should be drawn because their are simply too many scenario's and unknowns, just like nobody currently knows how the Russia Ukraine conflict will end.
Fact remains that the bombings caused tremendous loss of life.
In view of the fact that Truman called Oppenheimer a "cry baby" after Oppie told him that he has blood on his hands, plus the way Truman announced the bombing of Hiroshima with a smile on his face, and that many historians state that the war with Japan was already close to being over before both atomic bombs were dropped, makes one wonder why Truman is still on the 5th place in the list of best USA presidents.
Remarkably, his responsibility for putting over 220.000 people into their graves seems still to be hidden in the shadows of his achievements as regards his continuation and re-inforcement of Roosevelts New Deal, foreign policies and economic reform.
While constructing the bombs, it appears that Oppenheimer was less concerned about its potential military use.
Oppenheimer never publicly expressed regret for being the "Father of the atomic bomb". However, in view of his conduct and critical statements towards how his bomb had been deployed it is clear that, especially in later years of life, he mentally struggled with remorse. He did openly question whether the use of the bombs on Japan were really necessary.
To end this film, I just want to share this thought. Considering that the comments under my video have shown that so many (young) viewers are out of touch with history and are gullible for strange conspiracy and other theories as well as propagate twisted facts, a legitimate question is to what extent films like Nolan's "Oppenheimer" contribute to even more misinterpreted and misunderstood historic facts.
Although extremely cleverly made and largely based on facts, Nolan has taken the liberty to dramatise and even alter and twist the representation of facts to suite Hollywood's agenda. For example the "cry baby" event did not happen as portrayed in the film but took place later in a different setting.
Also Oppenheimer would in reality never have approached Einstein to ask for an opinion about Teller's fear that the bomb might destroy the entire Earth because of an unhaltable continuation of the nuclear fission in the Earths atmosphere. In reality Oppenheimer discussed this with American physicist Karl Taylor Compton.
To what extent future generations will take Nolan's great film for fact is unpredictable, but nevertheless somewhat worrying. It keeps me wondering whether a film can be properly made both with historic correctness and highest entertainment value in mind.
Source: archive.org
Music: Trevor Kowalski
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*A special treat, as well as a historic fact check, especially for those who already went to see Christopher Nolan's great "Oppenheimer" movie* The topic of the development of the atomic bomb and its deployment on Japan is a sensitive and controversial issue. Please keep your comments respectful, factual and thoughtful. Hatred and rubbish comments will simply be removed.
Why did you turn off the comments on that other video? Isnt it because I was exposing how unethical and inhumane was the bombing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, which was a military attack on military targets.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the clearest manifestation of America's inhumanity, greed, thirst for bloodshed, unethical warfare, corrupt judgment, negligence of all what is supposed to be of value to normal human beings.
Once again, the melting of the hundreds of thousands of civilians in these 2 cities will always be a sign of shame and dishonor stamped on the forehead of the criminal US administration... no matter how many times you turn off the comments section or whoever reports me for whatever illogical reason.
The USA has NO right to talk about human rights in any other country, let alone dictate what are human rights and what aren't.
I hope from the bottom of my heart, and for the sake of the MILLIONS killed by US intervention and sanctions all over the globe, that this tyrannical state succumbs to its knees, so that the whole world can take a sigh of relief.
I found Nolan's film the most confusing and boring film I have ever endured. learnt far more from your one!
Awesome Quality!! Thanks A LOT!
Here in New Mexico its sad because the towns around the site most have cancer or died of the down wind effects. Its a sad thing. Very sad. Also many of the mesa still have missile silos in them. Manzano mountains. Gallup area. Some are said to be up near Dulce mountains in NM. Not to mention the WIPP sites used to bury the radioactive waste here in NM.
I love the fact you use AI as a tool to improve the footage but not to just invent its own version of events, and especially not to take over script writing and narration. This is only the second video by you i have watched, im halfway through and i am as impressed so far with this as i was with the first, well done sir keep em' coming..
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Thank you so much for your incredible work bravo
Thank you too!
Very well done. Thank You
Mushroom clouds that will hang over humanity forever.
Excellent work as always
Thank you! Cheers!
Can’t imagine the nightmares he had..wow
Oppenheimer? Yes. Truman? He stopped a war that had cost 70 million lives up to that point and got a nation primed to fight to the death still with 4 million soldiers ready to fight and die for the emperor, sparing America a million estimated casualties and millions more Japanese dead, and stopped it cold. I'm sure Truman slept like a baby. As I would have, too. -- just as the Chinese, the Koreans, the Filipinos, Vietnamese, Laotians, and Indonesians did too considering how many millions of their people the Japanese had murdered over the years during their occupations. I'll guess they have zero problem with Truman smiling, too
@@jody6851 Please be more careful with generically stating figures like "70 million" and linking that to Truman's deployment of the two a-bombs. Fact is that Japan lost 3.1 million and the US 0.4 million, so in total 3.5 million.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/world-war-two-casualties-by-country
The war in Europe was already over when Truman deployed the bombs on Japan. Truman was then only in power as president for half a year. It was Frankin D. Roosevelt and Churchill who were responsible for handling the war in Europe on the side of the allies. No idea whether WW-II really touched Truman and gave him restless nights. This is interesting reading: millercenter.org/president/truman/impact-and-legacy
Fantastic work yet again Rick.Regardless of individual views on the Morality/Legality of many of these decisions your work provides a very special insight into the whole process. The restoration, enhancement and colourization provides another dynamic, another insight to all that was being done at Los Alamos. great work. Thank you.
Thank you kindly
japan would have fought to the end killing thousands of lives. i wish they would have dropped it outside the cities, killing less people. i think japan would have gotten the message still
Thanks for this
My pleasure!
We saw the new feature film last night and I thought when watching it that Nixie tubes did not fit into that scene. I also made the comment that I was sure that some scenes had been created for dramatic purposes and did not actually occur in real life. Well done on your presentation of this important part of world history.
Thank you very much.
What’s interesting that the historical inaccuracies you listen is that every single change Nolan made was for the better; dramatically, narratively, for character development, pacing.
Yes, but as I said: It's impossible to serve two masters: the historians and the Hollywood studios. This film has the appearance and pretences of being a historic documentary, but it is not, at least not quite. Fact and fiction have been unrecognisably mixed!
My point is that future viewers will take Nolan's film for fact, especially when sites that discuss the actual historic facts get more and more deeper hidden on/in the web as time progresses.
@@Rick88888888 Well I’d argue it doesn’t present itself as a historical documentary by virtue of the fact that it’s a narrative picture - a work of fiction. It claims to be based on a true story and is. The things you listed aren’t huge changes they’re simply to make for a more engaging movie. It’s not the burden of a filmmaker to answer for misinformation, they can only make the art.
Oppenheimer not being shut out after trinity and going on to have a long career is boring in a dramatic movie. Him not accepting the invitation by Strauss is great because it adds character to both men.
I get it’s not factually accurate but I’ll take a historically accurate great movie over a factually accurate mediocre one.
@@takethesky8478 Commenting on your last sentence: Is a person's objective to want to be entertained or to be educated by a film?! One should not take a Hollywood film as the source for serious historic (research or insight) purposes, neither should one expect a factual documentary to have any entertainment or amusement value. Nolan's film is a halfway house between both, and thus fulfils neither objectives. Great film though!
@@Rick88888888 This clearly entertained people but you don’t think it educated? For all it gets wrong, the film does something greater than details by brining the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing back ti public consciousness, back into the conversation.
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Thanks for restoring and sharing, truly valuable!
Would it be an idea to share your work on Curiosity Stream as well?
I hardly knew anything about them. I Googled it: So far the company is not a great success and losing money. I can't find anything about uploading to them and getting monetized. Currently I am also storing my work on archive.org see: www.ricksfilmrestoration.com/indexEN1.htm
though i understand your opinion on nolans inaccuracy, i think some things were needed to be added for tension and to get the point more clear
I am amazed at the processes involved in your work to achieve such natural coloring, or at least what I perceive it to be. Beautiful work, very well done! I look forward to many more such wonderfully restored archives. ❤️ 15:38
Thanks. Have you watched the nearly 300 videos that are already on my channel?
@@Rick88888888 No, I haven’t. I went to your channel a few months ago, but I only saw the more recent ones. I will check again.
13:29 where is the interview from
Wow... Amazing work. You nearly brought him into life.
Brilliantly AI restored Rick. Think i will save alot of comments on this except that i had family members who were tortured by the Japanese, starved and brutally treated, and came home luckily but as skeletons. Personally i dont think the Japanese would have surrendered. It is not in their DNA. Also, i dread to think that the Americans might have devasted every city in Japan with these weapons, is these 2 hadnt had the effect they had
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Great, thanks!
Ai will be the new Manhattan project
Your work helps the younger generations see what really happened rather than what Hollywood says happend, because according to Hollywood it was the US that broke the enigma code as just one example. Hollywood i suppose has its place in telling history, even if it gets the events wrong but sparks an interest in a young person to whatever part of history that the film is attempting to tell
Agreed about helping the young generation, but sorry, it were the *British at Bletchley Park* that broke the Enigma code! No American involvement / achievement at all. Read the story of Alan Turing and/or watch the great movie "The Immitation Game".
It's very easy, 78 years later, to look back and criticize the decisions taken, when you weren't there, you didn't take into account the context of the moment and you didn't have the decisions in hand. Japan was not a victim, it was a villain. Unfortunately, the history of imperial Japan and its crimes faced against China and Korea are almost overshadowed by the history of Nazism. The real culprit for Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the Japanese military high command who did not want to surrender, thinking they could still fight the world alone. The previous plan, invasion of the two main islands would prolong the war for several months, if not years. It would have been done jointly with the USSR from the north and would have had millions of military and civilian casualties. Japanese society was being armed with whatever was available, such as bayonets, axes, spears, swords, etc. It would be a terrible slaughter. After the defeat, Japan would be divided between the communist north and the capitalist south, creating yet another point of tension in the already expected cold war. What I have described is just a small summary of the context of 1945. Atomic weapons were used to end the conflict that lasted 6 years. So ask: if you were in Harry Truman's shoes, what would you do?
two trains of thought ???
1 pearl harbor",,,,, and 2 the lives of hundreds if not thousands of Americans if the decision as to mount a invasion of Japan,,,3,,,, "if you smack Uncle Sam he come back and smack you twice as hard"
hence 2 A-bombs ,,,, Japan had her come up-ance
rightly so,,,,,pre 1945 Japan was a evil force
Fair comment however the war started much earlier in 1937 with Japan causing all types of atrocities. The bomb was not detonated to save lives. It was to show Stalin the might of the US & how much inferior his programme was. After the Japanese surrender the the US leadership were gloating in their success against Japan & now the USSR. When the USSR conducted its tests in 1949, it took the the US false sense of security by surprise. I will call the real.start of Cold War where you had 2 nations with with 2 greatly differing ideologies & one with focusing on consumer culture & debt accumulation to support the consumerism. On the other hand you a heavy industry focus and no respect for the working class whom where the bottom of class struggle. The USSR was full of contradictions and hypocrisies. The whole idea of socialism was freedom the people and collective ownership of the assets of industry. Industry thud became the instrument of the ruling oligarchy. To shift the industry & output to where they saw fit. They caused climate disasters for example by cultivating cotton in Kazakhstan which led to an environmental catastrophe as thr Azov Sea almost dried up.
Our fellow Yankees did their bit by promoting individualism through un-needed consumer goods. It created a toxic craze that exists to day. The oligarchs of business got together to create a treasure box for the Yankee government to fund their whims so they could cut social spending, privatise medical services, & a few other policies in place to create a new megalith of billionaires who do not pay tax and control the system in their favour. This is the era since records were first kept that inequality is now at its highest point. Is this end of capitalism? Time will reveal all.
Great work, I also colorized this video a few days ago, the blue eyes in particular are missing from here.
Where can I see your work?
hollywood ruin pretty much every historical fact. Saving private ryan for example. Nice post Rick with many 8's
Pura vida Rick excelente video para que las futuras generaciones se informen sobre este gran acontecimiento de la historia que tuvo muchas consecuencias que hoy dia se siguen gestando .pura vida
From my understanding, the Japanese powers were not going to surrender. Let's say, Truman decided not to bomb Japan, how would one go about having the Japanese surrender without having to bring troops into the island without getting more soldiers killed?
Maybe there's something I misunderstood about the war, but everything indicated that Japan was not going to give up even if they knew that they were losing the war. Am I missing anything?
For a start, under the Geneva Convention, the deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. These treaties were agreed in 1949, so after the War, by 196 countries. So by modern standards, at least, nuking civilians in order to reduce further military casualties is not considered morally acceptable - or legal.
@@PEHowland I understand, but I always wondered how would you surrender an enemy who does not want to surrender and would prefer to "sink themselves along with their enemies"?
@@filb good question, and one much of the world is now struggling with, with Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. But nuking Moscow isn’t a credible option, even if Russian pundits like to suggest they should do that to the West!
He did wonderful experiment.
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Truth no longer can be found in this world.
Easy to sit back 80 years later & be arm-chair generals. Look at the dead & wounded counts for Iwo Jima & Okinawa. The mainland would be worse, much worse. Oppenheimer himself in the final interview used the word "butchery" to describe the war's prior years. Consider that you had a loved one slated to be in the mainland invasion force. What would you have decided? I thought so.
Don't forget, Nolan's Oppenheimer was based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus, not on perfect historical accuracy.
apparently he never spoke those oft quoted lines right after the explosion
No, being a physicist, he had his head too much stuck in the technicalities of producing the bomb(s) and hardly gave the ethics and implicit cruelty a thought. That's what you get especially with such ego-trippers. Sadly, the remorse came years later (far too late if you ask me). I noticed the same thing: while I am restoring and colorizing historic film, I hardly notice its contents. It is after the film is finished and I watch the end result then the emotions starts to appear and the contents real sinks in.
According to his brother Frank , Oppenheimer simply said "It worked".
all these most intelligent scientist put all in one room to created horrific destructive power as oppose to created something positive, it is worst then the devil himself.
They did create something horrific, no question about it. But that was always going to happen after the discoveries of Hahn, Strassmann and Meitner in 1939. These scientists also found out about nuclear power generation. It might help us fight global warming. I hope so.
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Scientist, not a commander. He did not understand the war.
Spare us the woke virtue signaling. The Japanese were brainwashed into thinking the most noble act in life was to die for the emperor. Under the bushido code of war, the most disgraceful thing a soldier could do is surrender to the enemy. In the battle of Saipan, every single Japanese soldier except for a handful fought to the death or committed suicide rather than surrender. Every Japanese civilian on that island committed suicide by jumping off a cliff rather than surrender to the Americans who they had been taught to believe were devils. The same story with Iwo Jima and Okinawa, with every island, American forces had to take back from Japan -- virtually EVERY Japanese soldier fought to the death rather than surrender. The Japanese still had over 4 million soldiers on the Japanese home islands also prepared to fight to the death. Schoolchildren and civilians were being trained in weaponry to fight the Americans as well. Even after the first bomb leveled Hiroshima, the Japanese refused to surrender. In fact, when a core group of high-level Japanese army officers got wind of the possibility Emperor Hirohito was finally going to surrender AFTER the second bomb!! on Nagasaki, they tried to launch a coup and kidnap the emperor to prevent surrender, until they were stopped by loyalists. Okinawa alone, where the Japanese had 100,000 troops stationed, cost the US 49,000 casualties including 12,500 dead. No one in his/her right mind could claim with a straight face that taking Japan and its 4 million soldiers would not have cost America hundreds of thousands of dead, maybe a million wounded. Not to mention millions of Japanese lives -- far far more than the numbers lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If the US suffered 12,500 dead in a battle against 100,000 Japanese (12.5% in relation), who then fought to the death or committed hari-kari, and then figure the Japanese had another 4 million men ready to fight to the death in Japan itself, you do the math as to how many American dead to expect based on the Okinawa percentages -- not counting civilian guerilla war. Only pontificating holier-than-thou's sitting in the safety of their own homes 78 years later can afford to lecture anyone about the decision to drop the bombs.
Another historical fact this video doesn't mention is that the US did not simply show up unannounced one day and drop the bombs on Japan, which is the impression most people have. The US dropped tens of thousands of leaflets first over every one of the ten city targets on the bombing list warning the civilians that the US had a new superweapon it would use and urged all civilians to leave the cities to save their lives, but was ignored. The US also warned the Japanese high command that it had such a weapon, but the Japanese high command ignored that, too. And while you're shaming Truman about the loss of life implying he's a war criminal, maybe you should first ask the Chinese, the Koreans, the Filipinos, and Southeast Asians what their opinion is, considering how many millions of their people the Japanese murdered starting in 1937. Sort of like asking the Jews what they'd have thought if the US was able to drop the bombs earlier over Germany destroying Hamburg and Wurzburg to put an end to Nazi Germany once and for all. Think they'd be wringing their hands over the loss of German civilians? If I knew I had stopped World War II right in its tracks by vaporizing a couple of German or Japanese cities, yet saving the lives of millions more on all sides by putting an end to the war cold that had already been raging for six years at a cost of 70 million people, I'd be smiling, too. Lay off Truman, and find some other cause to spew virtuous nonsense over. How about "gender-affirming care" for young minors?
A final point: Truman wasn't smiling about the destruction. He was smiling at something that happened for a moment behind the cameras. But this is edited to make it seem like he was enjoying the thought of mass destruction. This type of manipulated disinformation used out of context to smear someone the media doesn't like or the political party the media is shilling for is what to expect these days from today's corrupt hack media to generate clicks and subscriber renewals to grab more of those advertising dollars.
The consept of ' Lions led by Donkeys' still exists will we ever learn !!.
But Oppenheimer had blue eyes and black hair. Amirite???
The A.I. does not know that...
For those who hate the bomb, next time don't attack us.
settle down bro, it's a movie not a History lesson
Not entirely correct: it is a movie aimed at entertaining but also with an embedded history lesson. However, sadly fact and fiction are indistinguisably mixed. I really wonder whether Nolan's film would have lost any entertainment value if he had stuck to the historic facts.
@@Rick88888888 no there is no lesson, no math, no quiz------and it would have lost nothing at all
....but it's primarily a 'History Channel', not a 'Disney Channel'.
@@richierugs6544 Ofcourse it contains educational value, i.e. implicit it is a history lesson! You are being very silly.
It's a pity that high yeld nuclear energy should be deployed to destroy human life, but that's us 😁