Jon else Robert Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb. He was this complex ball of contradictions. Oppenheimer they are weapons of aggression, of surprise and of terror. Richard rhodes oppenheimer wanted the bomb to be used. How else would the world know what it was . Eleanor roosevelt dr. Oppenheimer, are we creating something we may not be able to control . Oppenheimer in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. ticking Newsreel Narrator it is dminus one for the test of the worlds first atomic device. Else this cultured, nonviolent man was responsible for birthing the most violent weapon in human history. And he devoted the rest of his life to trying to control the monster that he had unleashed. Oppenheimer if there is another world war. This civilization may go under. Kai bird he became a political pariah. Edward r. Murrow is it true that humans have already discovered a method of destroying humanity . cameras clicking else and it finally ruined him. Oppenheimer now i am
- -(clock ticking) jon else: robert oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb. he was this complex ball of contradictions. oppenheimer: they are weapons of aggression, of surprise and of terror. richard rhodes: oppenheimer wanted the bomb to be used. how else would the world know what it was? eleanor roosevelt: dr. oppenheimer, are we creating something we may not be able to control? oppenheimer: in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. (ticking) newsreel narrator: it is d-minus one for the test of the world s first atomic device. else: this cultured, nonviolent man was responsible for birthing the most violent weapon in human history. and he devoted the rest of his life to trying to control the monster that he had unleashed. oppenheimer: if there is another world war. .this civilization may go under. kai bird: he became a political pariah. edward r. murrow: is it true that humans have already discovered a method of destroying humanity? (cameras clicking) else: and
(ship horn blowing) newsreel narrator: albert einstein flees to the united states. he leads a vanguard of refugee scientists, virtually stripping german universities of their best minds. wellerstein: all of the turmoil in europe had forced out a huge number of really top-grade physicists. enrico fermi. hans bethe. edward teller, who famously would go on to develop the hydrogen bomb. one can sort of go down the lists and find more and more and more of these amazing people. oppenheimer was famously known for his intellectual sex appeal. and he could go around the country and sort of flash his brain to people, and, you know, they d sign up. rhodes: he would say, i unfortunately can t tell you what we re doing, but i can tell you that if we succeed,
the two loves in his life, physics and new mexico. and of course, he did precisely this. carr: now, the government shows up with bulldozers and architects and laborers and craftsmen to build a new community and laboratory where there essentially had not been one before. snowden: they re starting from scratch. and so much of what they were doing was unknow and unproven at the time. they didn t actually know that they would be able to achieve this. this was all theoretical. else: they knew that they had to get the best scientists if they were gonna get this weapon before the nazis did. (crowd chanting) (ship horn blowing) newsreel narrator: albert einstein flees to the united states. he leads a vanguard of refugee scientists,
(ship horn blowing) newsreel narrator: albert einstein flees to the united states. he leads a vanguard of refugee scientists, virtually stripping german universities of their best minds. wellerstein: all of the turmoil in europe had forced out a huge number of really top-grade physicists. enrico fermi. hans bethe. edward teller, who famously would go on to develop the hydrogen bomb. one can sort of go down the lists and find more and more and more of these amazing people. oppenheimer was famously known for his intellectual sex appeal. and he could go around the country and sort of flash his brain to people, and, you know, they d sign up. rhodes: he would say, i unfortunately can t tell you what we re doing, but i can tell you that if we succeed,