thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very, very special addition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he s taller than you expected. [laughter] please give a warm welcome to my friend and beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. hello! [applause] thank you! hey! stop it! [applause] how are you? good! thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. [laughter] that was a really, really hard 20 seconds for me. so thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. and that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years than i had in all of my time as a journalist beforehand, i would say. like, even that is a topic seems a little weird. we all know, ameri
by the use of atomic bombs in a single night. i am afraid that the answer to that question is yes. - -(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 tru