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We were marching up from island to island. landing on the beaches against dug-in japanese defenses. losing young men in large numbers. every day that went by without this bomb being successfully tested was a day in which thousands of americans are dying. newsreel narrator: thousands of yanks have been wounded and other thousands have sacrificed their lives to drive a fanatical foe from this vital base, the doorstep to japan itself. norris: they knew the japanese were defeated, but defeat and surrender are two different things. so how do you get them to surrender? oppenheimer: in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. and that is not a small thing. eisenbach: the way oppenheimer looked at the bomb is in a kind of eastern metaphysical way of ....
We were marching up from island to island. landing on the beaches against dug-in japanese defenses. losing young men in large numbers. every day that went by without this bomb being successfully tested was a day in which thousands of americans are dying. newsreel narrator: thousands of yanks have been wounded and other thousands have sacrificed their lives to drive a fanatical foe from this vital base, the doorstep to japan itself. norris: they knew the japanese were defeated, but defeat and surrender are two different things. so how do you get them to surrender? oppenheimer: in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. and that is not a small thing. eisenbach: the way oppenheimer looked at the bomb is in a kind of eastern metaphysical way of ....
Norris: everybody was on edge, and they had to calm down oppenheimer. he was a bundle of nerves. rhodes: he chain-smoked, which he pretty much always did anyway. groves: it was a situation where i did not want dr. oppenheimer to get nervous. there s a famous picture from that evening where oppenheimer himself crawls up the tower to the top where the bomb has been hoisted he s checking all the final plugs to make sure that everything is in order. he s clearly worried, trying to check every last little detail. wellerstein: oppenheimer doesn t know if this thing is gonna work at all. eisenbach: in fact, he had a bet with another one of the scientists that it wouldn t work ten dollars. oppenheimer: there were a hundred things that could be done wrong, any one of which could make the test a failure. nye: everybody had doubts. ....
Norris: it was a great shock. i mean, maybe this whole plutonium thing had been wasted, hundreds of millions of dollars to develop plutonium. wellerstein: oppenheimer was distraught, and-and los alamos was distraught. rhodes: he considered resigning, he was so depressed, and his friends at the laboratory said, you can t, robert. you ve got to stay and finish this work. it s got to happen. we must do it. and-and reluctantly, he stayed. (filmstrip rattling) newsreel narrator: .war under the supreme command of general dwight d. eisenhower. allied forces have nearly three million troops trained for the assault. (crowd cheering) on the other side of the channel. -(shouting in german) -(crowd chanting in german) .the nazis also know what the allied forces are preparing for, and they are making preparations of their own. (hitler shouting in german) bird: oppenheimer feared he was still in a race with the germans. even as late as the summer of 44, ....