Oppenheimer: The Real Events

foreign Einstein published his theory of relativity for 30 years afterwards physicists in Europe and America sought to conquer the secrets of the atom believing right there that in these particles of matter huge stores of energy were hidden of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert the shattering Overture to a new era in man's history the world that means every one of us must stop now and think for among future Terrors Another War may see atom bombs carried in the Warhead of rocket projectiles so great is the danger that many people have lost all hope what they think you can hear from Professor jode well there you've seen the first atom bomb case and the next now the next might very well be an atom bomb dropping on London I don't know what you think of it I think it's horrible make me wonder if I wanted the first time I heard about it why doesn't somebody put the fantas in a bag tie them up and keep them there they'll kill all of us before they've done makes you wonder I heard her say what's going to happen to the kiddies in 20 hours time I don't wonder I know here at Oak Ridge Tennessee city that militarily never appeared on a map was the site of one of the atomic bomb factories 59 000 acre Military Reservation populated by 78 000 men women and children secret Community entirely self-supporting providing its own schools shops and Community interests a phenomenon of the gigantic secret project of the atomic bomb that culminated in the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki two years Britain and America lavish the best scientific brains of our countries and a project mutually planned to bring World War II to an end there was no cutting the corners the process of development that cost 500 million pounds September 1942 a West Point engineer my name Brigadier General Leslie Groves is based in charge of the project which was codenamed Manhattan engineered District [Music] s of War represents a forward step in military thinking despite political vacillation the German discoveries and later the bombing of Pearl Harbor gave America The impetus to forge ahead in atomic preparation and what followed in military Atomic development was something perhaps which only America could have achieved Pearl Harbor Iwo Jima canal New Guinea all this was about to be Avenged [Music] 35 [Music] 40 41 43 Looking Back Now 20 years later do you still think that the bomb should have been dropped I always thought it should have been dropped but I've never really thought it should have been dropped in the manner that it was yeah I can't see that the the destruction of a city and the human lives that were lost were the crucial point in winning the war it was the fact we had the bomb and that it could do whatever it could do and so in the first place I still think and I have always thought that it should have been dropped as a warning somewhere where it could be seen without doing damage and then giving them the chance of saying do you want to go on would you not because of course tools those who have been responsible for our thoughts nothing working for an effective International control of atomic energy and for those other measures we have taken before our security that maintained peace I've never met this development be far from their thoughts is [Music] let us know thank you foreign

Channel: British Pathé

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Keywords: manhattan project, christopher nolan, atomic bomb, nuclear bomb, robert oppenheimer, j. robert oppenheimer, oppenheimer movie, oppenheimer bio, nuclear weapons documentary

Id: c86NVvZPylA

Length: 5min 30sec (330 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 20 2023