Can you imagine being one of the men watching, before that test you wouldn’t have ever known what an atomic bomb’s power looked like. You would have been the first to ever witness power like that, it would be unreal.
Depending on their emotional state at the time they would've either experienced extreme euphoria at the idea of it being capable of ending the war, or they would've experienced extreme dread as that much power can only be minimally controlled.
Yes it's like you somewhat have the picture of what the devastation would be but it's so unreal, you wouldn't belive it in until you saw it with your own eyes..
Well all the scientists specifically had three different reactions when they tested the bomb: A: We did it! B: Just stared silently in disbelief C: What have we done?
2:25 They don't explain it in the documentary, but the reason Fermi drops the scraps of paper when the shock wave hits is somehow he was able to calculate the yield of the bomb by how far they were moved. Genius.
@@kiloton1920 look, there might've been a thousand better methods of approximating the bomb's yield, but calling his estimation "evil" is a bit much? I'm sure it worked better on paper.
insert your channel name here It was music to the Marines who would have had to invade the Japanese mainland. My uncle fought on Okinawa and he knew first hand how the Japanese fought. He always said he was thankful they dropped them.
I love how the movie “Fat Man and Little Boy” depicts Oppenheimer’s reaction to the successful detonation of the first bomb. You can see the actor’s face visibly go from “My God, I’ve done it!” to “My God, what have I done…” as the glow of nuclear fire paints his face orange in the darkness. It never fails to give me chills every time I watch that scene.
“My God, what have I done…”? More like “My God, why did you have to send me determined European scientists to do it for me?”. Oppenheimer isn’t the one to blame here man.
Russell not only that but, if you nuke someone you lose reputation, that’s why they haven’t nuked Afghanistan. Because it makes you look bad and other countries won’t trade with you because you unleashed a weapon of mass destruction. (They also aren’t nuking Afghanistan because there are materials there.)
@@russell6075 Considering the alternative was a full military invasion, that was inevitable. The Japanese were going to defend their country to the last man, woman and child. The largest estimates summed up the deaths from the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at around 225,000 in total. Most historians agree that the death toll from an invasion would be far, FAR worse. Anywhere from 5 to 15 million deaths worse. Make no mistake, an invasion would send the entire country of Japan into a war zone and a lot more Japanese civilians would've died.
@@edvenuto9614 Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent, Nagasaki 21kt. From what I can tell from open sources, the most common devices in service now or until recently are/were about 200-500kt. The largest nuke ever detonated was 50 MEGAtons, and had a theoretical yield of 100mt if they replaced its lead shielding with uranium.
It's hard to imagine what it must feel like to witness the very first explosion of an atomic bomb. The amount of power far beyond anything ever experienced. The mushroom. The enourmous brightness. The immediate sense that this is biggest leap forward in destruction ability that the world has ever seen, that the damage that can be inflicted in a war is no longer depending on industrial capability but rather restraint.
Seems funny now, but when Alfred Nobel invented dynamite he thought it so destructive nobody would wage war again because the consequences would be so great. Turned out dynamite wasn't nearly powerful enough. But atomic bombs were. Maybe.
@@alanjm1234 Atomic bombs are already over*over*kill, wiping out cities in mere seconds, killing millions in an instant. I've heard this description (not exact): "A nuclear explosion is like every natural disaster all at once, except worse. Humanity is not prepared to deal with such a disaster" from a Kurzgesagt video (check him out btw the animations and explanations are beyond amazing and have improved so much over years). Now this SHOULD be something that makes no one ever want to wage war again because the consequences would be so immense. But sadly, somehow, it isn't. No matter the scale, human corruption and the evil and natural desire to wage war and kill each other will never cease to exist. God have mercy on us all if they invent such weapons that can wipe out an entire continent, or worse. I bet we've already reached that level of advancement in nuclear technologies, but we've just never wanted to actually put it together (I think, who knows if they've already done it and they're just keeping it classified to the public). Truly unthinkable and unreal, a full-out nuclear war (most likely between the US and Russia, North Korea, or China), WWIII. Any measures must be taken to prevent that.
@@bigaraga continent and planet *killers* aren't hard scientifically. We had plans for a cobalt rocket that intentionally spread as much lethal radiation as widely as possible at hypersonic speeds across vast areas, as well as ideas for simply copying the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Fortunately, they were never used.
The movie doesn't even do a better job at depicting the size the of explosion... BBC literally did it better, without all the marketing campaign about Imax, using an actual size bomb etc...
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who worked on the bomb, after the first test.
Hmm, I didn't realise that the Tsar bomb was made before 1945... There I was thinking this was the largest explosion at the point in history but obviously you are onto some nice conspiracy there.
I have actually held a chunk of the sand that was turned to glass by this bomb. It was brought to my high school American History class by a guest visitor, and it was in a plex glass container that he passed around. When I held it, I thought to myself "I am holding the byproduct of one of the deadliest weapons in history...". It was as bone-chillingly horrifying as it was fascinating.
Lol so true. Good ol' nights of 2020 watching movies and playing video games in my room whole night and when mom had opened the room door i, already had set everything and room lights were off, just pressed the power button of ipad and acted like i was asleep and BOY WAS I NEVER CAUGHT! :)
@@asparagusoffice the thing is Keeping track of multiple missiles is harder. And the brute force of one big bomb means that the rest does not need to be as refined.
tsar bomba that was tested was less powerful than what it could have been. They deliberately reduced its payload to ensure that the pilots that dropped it could fly a safe distance away before detonation.
Viasat History has a lot off WW2 documentaries, every day. I have seen this episode on Visasat History. But I don't know if that channel is available where you live? I believe Viasat History is a Scandinavian or European channel, I live in Norway.
@@WhattAreYouSaying I’m in the USA, we don’t get that channel here. I’m tired of these reality tv shows, but glad there’s UA-cam, because I can always look at documentaries on here.
@@lixsajoe That's too bad, it's a good channel. I remember when History Channel was about history, and not all this "reality" and alien crap. It used to be a good channel, but not anymore.
the scene where the piece of paper blew out of Fermi's hand is a reference to the concept of Fermi estimation. Fermi used how far that paper flew to estimate the blast yield of the contraction. He was within 1 kiloton of it's true power. Fermi estimation is essentially taking rough measurements and making reasonable assumptions to arrive at a solution that is close to correct because what you overestimate is offset by what you underestimate.
according to a direct quote, he guessed 10,000 tons. the bomb was 25,000 tons. this was determined by barometers measuring the same thing as Fermi, as well as a host of other instruments measuring other aspects of the blast. also it's crazy, we call Fermi Estimation something else outside of America, maybe you've heard of "educated guessing." it works because if you recognize your guess as being overestimated or underestimated, (get this right?) it doesn't become your guess. wild.
The guy's eyes during the "Death, destroyer of world's" quote just looked lifeless... He's not proud, he's not bragging, he's not trying to make himself look badass in any way... he's just sitting there with the horrible realization that he is responsible for the creation of a weapon that has the potential to wipe human civilization off the map. Can you even imagine how he must have felt about it? There is obviously the excitement and celebration of succeeding with the task of creating the bomb, but I feel like that would be short lived soon after realizing what you had really done.
What are you talking about? Bragging? What would he brag about? It was Europeans who created the weapon. Oppenheimer himself didn’t have even 5% of their knowledge. Look at the biggest contributors to the Manhattan Project and you’ll see they were European. Start blaming them!
“Albert… "When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world... I believe we did.” - Oppenheimer
I was born on the year the bomb was dropped. I remember what my mother said about what people thought about, when they heard on the radio about the atomic bomb being dropped on Heroshima. She did not know one person who rejoiced. Everyone was stunned that one single bomb could cause so much destruction. However everyone did rejoice about a month later when the Japanese surrendered. People were more happy that World War 2 finally came to an end, more so than that the United States won the war. No more young men being sent off to the war. No more telegrams explaining that sons, nephews, boyfriends, husbands, brothers, close friends, the kid down the street, were killed in action.
Rewriting history, are we? The US did not cause Germany’s surrender nor Japan’s. The Soviets destroyed 3/4 of the German army (whilst sacrificing 27 million of their own) and Japan surrendered 6 days after the Soviets declared war against Japan. The US, on the other hand, decided to valiantly drop 2 nukes, killing more than 100,000 civilians, not merely from the detonations but also from the unimaginable suffering from the aftermath …
I cant imagine what the scientists who created such destruction must have felt in that moment it was witnessed for the first time.... absolutely horrifying
I'm sure these assholes must be partying that they helped their country build something that will make them dominate other countries and make them live in fear... I wish humans were better....
Tested right down the road from where I was stantioned for most of my Air Force career. They had finally opened the test area my third year at Holloman AFB, N.M. I finally left in 1991, after getting back from Desert Storm. I expect to get a notice from the Air Force that I will glow in the dark before I die.
@@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582of he would because that's science and it's a hell of an achievement in human kind though it was for the wrong means but later when he realised the hostility of this weapon specially after the hirshima bomb drop, he wea devastated
@@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582 The idea held by many scientists was that it would be enough to just demo the power to Japanese ambassadors, and that would end the war. Instead the US military chose to destroy civilians right away, without a demo. Please pay attention, it's too important a lesson to lol at.
@@domlans681 In reality, this was not the case. Oppenheimer was not apologetic or dismayed that the bomb was used to end the war. In all honesty, why would he be? The alternative was an invasion that would kill millions of soldiers and civilians, or surrendering and letting Japan continue their brutal war and enslavement of East Asia.
Is that the unparalleled John Hurt narrating this? He's one of the very few actors who will never be adequately replaced. A unique talent. A few hours ago I watched a very amateur bootleg copy of OPPENHEIMER. Despite the poor sound, unsteady camera (hidden from staff whilst secretly filming the screen in a cinema?) unwanted internet gambling site ads and French subtitles, I was still _absolutely_ engrossed for its full three hour runtime. It's restored my faith in movies - studios still finance mega-budget films for adult audiences with complex themes and nuanced protagonists. It's a masterpiece that I _must_ see on the cinema screen with professional theater sound.
THE CAST is stellar. Even characters who appear in only one or two scenes, with maybe two lines of dialogue, have hugely successful actors cast in the roles. Although appearing for a relatively short time the character of Colonel Boris Pash really grabbed by attention, to such an extent that I spent an hour 'researching' him (googling) as soon as the film ended. Played by the increasingly impressive Casey Affleck [possible replacement for hugely missed Daniel Day Lewis?] as an enigmatic yet deeply sinister U.S military security expert of Tsarist Russian heritage, with a fanatical vocation to anti-communism. His performance proves the Stanslavski quote: 'There are no small parts, only small actors'.
Neither the tower nor the shot cab was stainless steel. They were a minimum of 5.7 miles (10,000 yards) from the blast. The blast wave out there was about 5 mph for 5 seconds. Oppenheimer's pitch about the Bagahvad Gita was 15 years later. He no doubt felt the weight of responsibility at the time, but few regrets. He quashed such a protest from Leo Szilard a week after the test. "Cracking the Earth's crust" was never even considered a threat. The threat studied to death was igniting the atmosphere (or even the Earth itself) in a nuclear chain reaction.
These weapons of mass destruction were used 5000+ years ago by Indian vedic samurai (yodhas) traces of such can be found in Mahabharata and the indus valley civilization. There usage and knowledge was abolished by the GOD himself and the learnings were forbidden
@@utkarshv3110 they lived in stone huts without proper roads or water system (compared to the romans, never mind modern) yet could build wepons of mass destruction? Far less technological then the egytians during the same period. heck even Mesopotamia 1000 years earlier build far more impresive monuments showing signs of advanced engineering. What they are know for are the urban planing. Also Mahabharata was written over 2000 years after the fall of the indus valley civilization.
"Now I became death, the destroyer of the worlds". A spine-chilling line from the spiritual book of 'Bhagavad Gita', written thousands of years ago. Oppenheimer quoting this after the atom bomb says a lot about us as a civilization.
@@itstimetomakelol6650 Give me an example of an “extreme” American accent. I’m not even sure I know what an “extreme” British accent would be....maybe some rural Scottish accent that barely anyone can understand... That’s a bizarre way to put it, though...extreme...
I hope you're being sarcastic. That Brit's "American" dialect is even worse than Ben Kingsley or Liam Neeson's. Although you could fill Yankee stadium with Americans who can't do a Brit dialect.
2:26 when Enrico Fermi dropped some paper to calculate how powerful atomic bomb base on displacement drop paper. His got value same as computer calculation. Legend
Yeah but their bomb has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more killing power than that of conventional weapons, if one nuke is dropped today, billions will die from the ensuing nuclear war
@Basil He probably refers more to balance of terror or consept of mutually assured destruction. Threat of nuclear weapons possibly prevented cold war from escalating to ww 3.
@@TheDolefish Research "Broken Arrows" and then knock yourself out... there's still one stuck in the mud at the bottom of the ocean somewhere off of the coast of North Carolina...all of the others have been retrieved.
2:24 Fermi dropped pieces of paper to, through dimensional analysis, estimate the power of the bomb - he'd worked out a rough equation that related distance they flew backwards to the power of the bomb. He was pretty close to right. Jesus they knew their stuff back then.
ua-cam.com/video/yOwH55lnA8M/v-deo.html is misnamed "First British nuclear bomb." It is actually an atmospheric test of Britain's first H bomb. Great footage of the troops and some interviews. "Gosh, that was loud!"
as usual, the dropping of these two bombs brings on the kneejerk reactions of many with good, humane intentions, but totally lacking in knowledge of the facts of the matter. The most common fallacy is to suggest that an offshore demonstration would have stopped the war. It's an understandably mistaken assumption that is exposed as uninformed. The USA dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima, followed by widespread dropping of millions of leaflets all across Japan, that it would be repeated until japan surrendered. So what was Japan's reaction to this real world "demonstration?" It was surely much more convincing and absolute than any offshore demonstration that might have been challenged as a rigged explosion of otherwise conventional explosives. They refused to surrender. The cabinet representative of the Japanese Army said that he would accept the deaths of 20 Million women and children. Even after the bombing of Nagasaki offered a second "demonstration" the military refused to surrender. When the Emperor spoke out to stop it, there was an armed battle inside the palace to capture his recorded announcement of surrender. Men on both sides died in the hallways and chambers. Had not that battle inside the Imperial Palace been won by loyal bodyguards, the war would have continued.
That last paragraph basically says "in other words it had nothing to do with the bomb but rather the japanese stubborn military controlling the country". Seriously, you shot yourself in the foot on that one, because it literally proves the point - the bombs weren't necessary, Japan and its people, its emperor, were willing to surrender. It was the stubborn military leaders who didn't want to be tried for their war crimes that held out and would have continued to hold out regardless of the bombs.
My parent helped test Hydrogen Bombs. I saw his photography and remember his descriptions. I've also was SCUBA certified by the US Army Corps of Engineers and afterward trod upon a capsized German-made warship that survived WMD effects. I swam down to view the submerged portions. As a child my parent drove me to Nevada to experience the effects of exploding Atomic Bombs . All of which has been exploded underground. Then, we went back to the nearest ice cream outlet for a banana-split serving.
Omaha beach got all the attention via the film Saving Private Ryan. The Marines that stormed Guadalcanal and other islands in the Pacific ran into similar circumstances, if not worse. The Japanese were so gun ho that the survivors swam out to sea to drown rather than be captured.
2:26 "The force of the explosion was estimated--"by Enrico Fermi, shown here dropping shreds of paper to estimate the wind speed of the blast. He was famous for that sort of ad hoc estimation. He estimated 10,000 kilotons, about half the actual value, but with the right order of magnitude, good enough for government work. To this day, physics texts still offer "Fermi Problems", which you are supposed to answer by crude approximation to show your grasp of the fundamentals, not to obtain exact answers by detailed calculation. Another that I've seen: A tire loses 3/16" of tread after 10,000 miles. How much tread wears away at each revolution of the tire? (Notice you have to guess the diameter of the tire.)
Obviously Oppenheimer was a very smart man, so I know there is a pretty good chance that he is being misrepresented here that he hadn't thought through what these bombs would be used for. But if it is true, and it didn't hit him until he was told of their target.....what the hell else did you think they would be used for? Why would you be making a weapon out of such immense power?
The timing of his revelation was misrepresented here, yeah. It's pretty silly. But he did have a moment, by his own admission. I can kinda see why. For his job, the short term task was a unique and speculative project whose development outlived the front it was meant for, and the long term consequence was the since-unquestioned survival of the species. I'm sure the former overshadowed the latter at times. I'm also sure he understood the bombs were an existential threat. But there's a reason poets never shut up about how surreal it is to confront your own death. But yeah, that "moment" of sorts happened right after the test succeeded. He wasn't clapping or cheering like the doc shows, apparently only a few people reacted at all. And a celebratory attitude like that toward some grim new weapon would be very naive of them anyway. The hilarious thing about this weird assumption is that even if some idiot didn't know they were bombing Japan, absolutely no one would have cared. It was Japan in WW2, America barely had to do anything to demonize them.
@@buckhorncortez Okay makes sense. So this is just a fabrication for drama here that he wasn't aware what it was going to be used for until after the successful test
@@dacypher22 Every scientist that worked on the Manhattan Project knew exactly that the bombs would be used in WW II. Originally, they were trying to beat the Germans to the bomb because Nazis in control of an atomic bomb meant they could potentially conquer the entire world. When the Germans surrendered May 7, 1945, the scientists knew the next use would be in Japan. Let's put this in perspective. In January 1939, Luis Alvarez learned of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman's fission experiment and told Oppenheimer about it. Within a week, Phillip Morrison remembered walking into Oppenheimer’s office and seeing on the blackboard, “a drawing - a very bad drawing an execrable drawing - of a bomb.” So, any idea that the scientists were somehow pawns of the government is a total fabrication.
My late father-in-law, who did get to meet Dr Oppenheimer at a conference years later, was in the outskirts of Hiroshima the morning the bomb was dropped. I got to ask him about the event, what he told me was unexpected; he recalled thinking it was the most "beautiful thing he ever saw". That was the reaction. He reminded me, that he had no idea what it was, it was secret, the world did not know about such weapons. To him, for a few seconds, it was simply a beautiful radiant light. After the war, US research scientists came to studying the aftermath, one of which sponsored him to become a US citizen where eventually he became a scientist himself. In his career he helped found the NOAA ships of opportunity program, helped create models of deep-sea ocean currents and eventually introduced to Dr Oppenheimer at a conference. I'm not confident about what was said precisely, this came directly from him, at that time he was a practicing Quaker, but he claimed it was a simple "thank you". I have a hard time reconciling that.
Nuclear bombs are one of the greatest inventions by humans. They are one of the most beautiful things ever. We shouldn't use them because we are scared of Soviets winning the Japan war. We should use them if we are threatened. Nuclear bombs are the reasons we haven't had a 3rd world war. They are peace keeping weapons
It would be cool if we could get a side by side comparison of a convention bomb detonated at the same distance as that nuke just to full appreciate how powerful nukes are.
Nukemap is a website that shows the radius of destruction of various payloads. Interestingly, we have conventional warheads both smaller and more powerful than both nuclear bombs dropped in Japan.
Belarus-chan There was no reason to. To suggest either nation cannot build a weapon like the Tsar Bomba is absurd, they are not built because of lack of practicality. These bombs have no capable or consistent delivery system no to mention they do not serve any greater deterrent than already exists. There is a reason the warheads in both nations arsenals are not the "strongest" that can be built. These weapons serve a purpose, first and foremost military targets and much less manufacturing and economic infrastructure. So finally; why have one Tsar Bomb when you can have have multiple warheads on one missile hitting multiple strategic targets? The Russians never sent a man to the moon, does it mean they do not process the technology or is it just no longer practical?
Idk why, but every single time someone mentions the heat of a nuclear bomb I can hear Edna Mode say “It can withstand temperatures of up to 8000 degrees 😎”
When I worked for an electric utility, I had to wear (in many locations) clothing that was rated not to catch fire with 2 seconds of exposure to the temperature of the surface of the sun... more accurately, 10,000F. We semi-joked about it as being so they could see where we had been standing.
People simply do not remember the scale of the war and the extraordinary amount of death and suffering that was occurring every single day that the war continued.
Fun fact: In 1954, the US had several military contingencies for war against the Soviet Union, many of which were nuclear. At one point, an internal critic pointed out that they intended to drop two 1.1 megaton bombs (or one 4.5 megaton bomb in a similar plan) onto a Soviet city roughly the size of Hiroshima in 1945. If this plan had gone through, that city (which was not publicly named) would have experienced *600*x the amount of explosive force unleashed on Japan. Thank whatever god is out there that we've made it this far.
It isn't a huge difference. The difference between this 20 kiloton blast and a 1 megaton blast is 2.2km vs 7.7km of blast radius. That's 3.5 times increase in blast radius compared to 50 times increase in yield. 50 megatons (the largest weapon ever detonated) gets you a 28km blast radius - 13 times the blast radius for 2500 times the yield.
The Beast yeah, it's awful. It's like he wasn't even trying. And I've seen plenty of British actors who can sound American. That guy didn't even try to change his accent at all.
Oh...let's see..Leo Szilard and Neils Bohr and most of the other physicists. Szilard and Bohr attempted to meet with Roosevelt on that exact subject and wrote a number of papers describing an arms race.
the Cold War was underway, if the Allies had asserted that the Soviet entry Aug 9, 1945 had been the decisive factor in ending the ww2 would have been tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
@@sce2aux464 - I wouldn't give them anything anyway because they are commies except some recognition for winning the European War almost singlehandedly
Now I have become death the destroyer of worlds. Legendary quote
...made in 1957, 12 years after the war.
K G because Tokyo is dense?
K G I was just on that part of the video once I saw this quote lol
He'd better should had killed himself since he: "... have become death...etc. etc."
Nah, Oppenheimer just enabled the destroyers that will at some point vaporize mankind off this planet.
Can you imagine being one of the men watching, before that test you wouldn’t have ever known what an atomic bomb’s power looked like. You would have been the first to ever witness power like that, it would be unreal.
Wouldn't be there in the first place.
Frightening!
Be like hercule seeing goku go ultra instinct for the first time
Depending on their emotional state at the time they would've either experienced extreme euphoria at the idea of it being capable of ending the war, or they would've experienced extreme dread as that much power can only be minimally controlled.
Yes it's like you somewhat have the picture of what the devastation would be but it's so unreal, you wouldn't belive it in until you saw it with your own eyes..
Well all the scientists specifically had three different reactions when they tested the bomb:
A: We did it!
B: Just stared silently in disbelief
C: What have we done?
hmm probably all three
D: Has anyone got some beer ?
Two people laughed, two people cried, everyone else was silent
One person didn’t realise it was a dramatised documentary.
Hayden Smith if me open a champengne mate
2:25 They don't explain it in the documentary, but the reason Fermi drops the scraps of paper when the shock wave hits is somehow he was able to calculate the yield of the bomb by how far they were moved. Genius.
yeah that’s smart
and according to his stated calculation, he was only off by 88.5%
How could you call somebody who brought life to such evil a genius?
@@kiloton1920 look, there might've been a thousand better methods of approximating the bomb's yield, but calling his estimation "evil" is a bit much?
I'm sure it worked better on paper.
@@kiloton1920 he regretted helping make it the rest of his life so cut the man some slack
Powerful Atomic bomb: * explodes*
Subtitles: MUSIC
Deaf people :
It’s now entertainment
It’s Kim jung uns favourite song
That’s the music of victory
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It was music to the Marines who would have had to invade the Japanese mainland. My uncle fought on Okinawa and he knew first hand how the Japanese fought. He always said he was thankful they dropped them.
RIP John Hurt (the narrator )
Did he? he.. oh I'll miss him.
Krock RIP
Krock rip :(
RIP.
Krock so sad rip
Dude is so casual in the thumbnail. You'd think he was at a backyard campfire.
Hey guess what he had welder goggles insane dude
He is probably Stalin.
He’s like “well would ya look at that”
😂
This is supposed to be Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. He died of a heart attack in July 1970.
I love how the movie “Fat Man and Little Boy” depicts Oppenheimer’s reaction to the successful detonation of the first bomb. You can see the actor’s face visibly go from “My God, I’ve done it!” to “My God, what have I done…” as the glow of nuclear fire paints his face orange in the darkness. It never fails to give me chills every time I watch that scene.
“My God, what have I done…”? More like “My God, why did you have to send me determined European scientists to do it for me?”. Oppenheimer isn’t the one to blame here man.
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He said one geeta slok
@@saurabhgairola9145 which
he said “i have become death the destroyer of worlds”
The creation of the nuclear bomb is the literal embodiment of the phrase, “I’ve won, but at what cost?”
the cost was the people who wasn't even involved in the war had to die
Russell not only that but, if you nuke someone you lose reputation, that’s why they haven’t nuked Afghanistan. Because it makes you look bad and other countries won’t trade with you because you unleashed a weapon of mass destruction. (They also aren’t nuking Afghanistan because there are materials there.)
2 Billion dollars
@@russell6075 that would’ve happened anyway.
@@russell6075 Considering the alternative was a full military invasion, that was inevitable. The Japanese were going to defend their country to the last man, woman and child. The largest estimates summed up the deaths from the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at around 225,000 in total. Most historians agree that the death toll from an invasion would be far, FAR worse. Anywhere from 5 to 15 million deaths worse. Make no mistake, an invasion would send the entire country of Japan into a war zone and a lot more Japanese civilians would've died.
Insane to think this is a baby explosion compared to what is out there now.
It was a huge explosion it destroyed Japan
@@edvenuto9614 compared to what we have now this is like a drop of water
@@edvenuto9614 Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent, Nagasaki 21kt. From what I can tell from open sources, the most common devices in service now or until recently are/were about 200-500kt. The largest nuke ever detonated was 50 MEGAtons, and had a theoretical yield of 100mt if they replaced its lead shielding with uranium.
@@edvenuto9614 cities in japan, not japan
Tsar bomb, satan 2, minute man 2 all scary creations
It's hard to imagine what it must feel like to witness the very first explosion of an atomic bomb. The amount of power far beyond anything ever experienced. The mushroom. The enourmous brightness. The immediate sense that this is biggest leap forward in destruction ability that the world has ever seen, that the damage that can be inflicted in a war is no longer depending on industrial capability but rather restraint.
Seems funny now, but when Alfred Nobel invented dynamite he thought it so destructive nobody would wage war again because the consequences would be so great. Turned out dynamite wasn't nearly powerful enough.
But atomic bombs were. Maybe.
@@alanjm1234 same goes for Gatling, but I think this pattern has reached its end.
@@alanjm1234 Atomic bombs are already over*over*kill, wiping out cities in mere seconds, killing millions in an instant. I've heard this description (not exact): "A nuclear explosion is like every natural disaster all at once, except worse. Humanity is not prepared to deal with such a disaster" from a Kurzgesagt video (check him out btw the animations and explanations are beyond amazing and have improved so much over years). Now this SHOULD be something that makes no one ever want to wage war again because the consequences would be so immense. But sadly, somehow, it isn't. No matter the scale, human corruption and the evil and natural desire to wage war and kill each other will never cease to exist. God have mercy on us all if they invent such weapons that can wipe out an entire continent, or worse. I bet we've already reached that level of advancement in nuclear technologies, but we've just never wanted to actually put it together (I think, who knows if they've already done it and they're just keeping it classified to the public). Truly unthinkable and unreal, a full-out nuclear war (most likely between the US and Russia, North Korea, or China), WWIII. Any measures must be taken to prevent that.
@@bigaraga continent and planet *killers* aren't hard scientifically. We had plans for a cobalt rocket that intentionally spread as much lethal radiation as widely as possible at hypersonic speeds across vast areas, as well as ideas for simply copying the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Fortunately, they were never used.
@@christopherlee7334 Damn
I'm here after watching Oppenheimer (2023), such a masterpiece of movie, And this video is absolutely precise in how things happened.
The movie doesn't even do a better job at depicting the size the of explosion... BBC literally did it better, without all the marketing campaign about Imax, using an actual size bomb etc...
I live in Texas and you can buy this at the store for self defense purposes.
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Yes
And mexico
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“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who worked on the bomb, after the first test.
I live in Texas and you can buy this at the store for self defense purposes.
Sure he did. In 1957, having spent 10 years encouraging development, but when he finally said no to the H-bomb, Strauss had him cashiered.
Just wanna specify that Oppenheimer was the director of the project.
@@wtfduud Yes, he was technical director of the Manhattan Project, under General Leslie Groves who was the overall project director.
I like that they showed Enrico Fermi releasing he bit of paper he used to make an estimate of the energy of the blast.
World biggest and most expensive firework
Sold at amazon for 5 bucks
The deluxe virson for 50 megatons is $20 at anmazon
There are bombs bigger like the tsar bomba its the worlds biggest nuclear bomb
Hmm, I didn't realise that the Tsar bomb was made before 1945... There I was thinking this was the largest explosion at the point in history but obviously you are onto some nice conspiracy there.
Toby The Dog -firework-
*nuke*
I have actually held a chunk of the sand that was turned to glass by this bomb. It was brought to my high school American History class by a guest visitor, and it was in a plex glass container that he passed around. When I held it, I thought to myself "I am holding the byproduct of one of the deadliest weapons in history...". It was as bone-chillingly horrifying as it was fascinating.
It was called Trinitite. Or Atomsite.
2:13 when u only have 1 second to fake sleep
LOL
Haha😐
Lol so true. Good ol' nights of 2020 watching movies and playing video games in my room whole night and when mom had opened the room door i, already had set everything and room lights were off, just pressed the power button of ipad and acted like i was asleep and BOY WAS I NEVER CAUGHT! :)
The fact that the tsar bomba was over 3000x this explosion is insane
Ya. Shows the big difference between a "atom bomb" and a Hydrogen Bomb.
good thing it's more efficient to saturate a target with multiple nukes instead of one big explosion.
it's a real comfort
The Tsar Bomba was also only at half yield because even the Russians were scared of what it could do.
@@asparagusoffice the thing is
Keeping track of multiple missiles is harder.
And the brute force of one big bomb means that the rest does not need to be as refined.
tsar bomba that was tested was less powerful than what it could have been. They deliberately reduced its payload to ensure that the pilots that dropped it could fly a safe distance away before detonation.
Love these documentaries!! Wish history and discovery channel went back to the basics. Stuff like this is what they need!!
Yes
Viasat History has a lot off WW2 documentaries, every day. I have seen this episode on Visasat History. But I don't know if that channel is available where you live? I believe Viasat History is a Scandinavian or European channel, I live in Norway.
@@WhattAreYouSaying I’m in the USA, we don’t get that channel here. I’m tired of these reality tv shows, but glad there’s UA-cam, because I can always look at documentaries on here.
@@lixsajoe That's too bad, it's a good channel. I remember when History Channel was about history, and not all this "reality" and alien crap. It used to be a good channel, but not anymore.
John Hurt narrating.
Kick ass actor.
Rest in peace.
I thought it sounded like him 😂😂
*coughs* "Excuse me, I have a xenomorph in my throat."
the scene where the piece of paper blew out of Fermi's hand is a reference to the concept of Fermi estimation. Fermi used how far that paper flew to estimate the blast yield of the contraction. He was within 1 kiloton of it's true power. Fermi estimation is essentially taking rough measurements and making reasonable assumptions to arrive at a solution that is close to correct because what you overestimate is offset by what you underestimate.
according to a direct quote, he guessed 10,000 tons. the bomb was 25,000 tons. this was determined by barometers measuring the same thing as Fermi, as well as a host of other instruments measuring other aspects of the blast.
also it's crazy, we call Fermi Estimation something else outside of America, maybe you've heard of "educated guessing." it works because if you recognize your guess as being overestimated or underestimated, (get this right?) it doesn't become your guess. wild.
The guy's eyes during the "Death, destroyer of world's" quote just looked lifeless... He's not proud, he's not bragging, he's not trying to make himself look badass in any way... he's just sitting there with the horrible realization that he is responsible for the creation of a weapon that has the potential to wipe human civilization off the map. Can you even imagine how he must have felt about it? There is obviously the excitement and celebration of succeeding with the task of creating the bomb, but I feel like that would be short lived soon after realizing what you had really done.
Most of the people on the video of that speech he made says he looked proud and smiled,but no sane man would feel proud for destroying 800,000 lives
I'd feel like a monster. Just horrified by what we have created.
@@hardbumpy8400 it does look like he is smiling slightly. yet his eyes are completely vacant. an insane man.
What are you talking about? Bragging? What would he brag about? It was Europeans who created the weapon. Oppenheimer himself didn’t have even 5% of their knowledge. Look at the biggest contributors to the Manhattan Project and you’ll see they were European. Start blaming them!
@@hardbumpy8400 It is not him who built the bomb. He hasn’t destroyed any lives.
“Albert… "When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world... I believe we did.”
- Oppenheimer
I was born on the year the bomb was dropped. I remember what my mother said about what people thought about, when they heard on the radio about the atomic bomb being dropped on Heroshima. She did not know one person who rejoiced. Everyone was stunned that one single bomb could cause so much destruction. However everyone did rejoice about a month later when the Japanese surrendered. People were more happy that World War 2 finally came to an end, more so than that the United States won the war. No more young men being sent off to the war. No more telegrams explaining that sons, nephews, boyfriends, husbands, brothers, close friends, the kid down the street, were killed in action.
@blitz man boring??
Thank you for sharing this, Kevin! It sounds horrific and like an enormous relief beyond belief.
Huh?
Rewriting history, are we? The US did not cause Germany’s surrender nor Japan’s. The Soviets destroyed 3/4 of the German army (whilst sacrificing 27 million of their own) and Japan surrendered 6 days after the Soviets declared war against Japan. The US, on the other hand, decided to valiantly drop 2 nukes, killing more than 100,000 civilians, not merely from the detonations but also from the unimaginable suffering from the aftermath …
@@tp511 The USSR didn't do crap but get rescued by the US. Us nuking Japan was heroic. You're welcome.
A mouse will never make a mouse trap for himself. Human did it.
Great quote
Yogesh Asariya Because a mouse isn’t smart as humans
Unsoundrook
Not only smart but also hungry for power.
Humans have created the atomic bomb but no mouse would ever create a mousetrap
@@topix7324 given enough time evolution will take care of that
"The children found the matches" is what the ETs would say to each other as they gaze upon the earth from their spacecraft.
Brilliant, I’m sure they thought the teenagers have found the blowtorch when they dropped the tsar bomba
@@detectivehobson7465 Baking soda volcano gone wrong
I cant imagine what the scientists who created such destruction must have felt in that moment it was witnessed for the first time.... absolutely horrifying
I'm sure these assholes must be partying that they helped their country build something that will make them dominate other countries and make them live in fear... I wish humans were better....
@@mujtabaganie1905 well they're all dead now so they likely are not partying lol
They all knew exactly what would happen. That was their job.
Einstein help created it
Christopher Nolan: “Hold my plutonium”
Very strange, with the British actors.
boooters 1jm
It was a joint effort, don't forget it was Einstein who proposed the idea in the first place (a German). Do some research.
Because the british made the bomb and the technology for fucking yanks to take the credit
Decent Also only some of the scientists were limeys, the rest were all Americans.
@@Creepytaco95 correction yankees
2:49 you can see on the ground where they have driven in the same way for difrent takes
Also because there's more than one vehicle
Good eye
Tested right down the road from where I was stantioned for most of my Air Force career. They had finally opened the test area my third year at Holloman AFB, N.M. I finally left in 1991, after getting back from Desert Storm. I expect to get a notice from the Air Force that I will glow in the dark before I die.
@w41duvernay I'm sorry for what you didn't know about the world back then. I wish you a long, cancer free life, and a painless peaceful death.
The shot of fermi dropping the bits of paper is such a good detail when talking about the estimations
2:13 your mom shouting at you really loud
Rafael Anunciacion you’re
@@Matthew-ww4lt your.
2:30 - SO, if I can get my hands on sixty-seven MILLION sticks of dynamite, I can simulate an atomic bomb? Cool science project for the school fair,,,
ferb i know what we're doing today
Have you finished your project?
@@exudosid we shall do it again
@@exudosid 😂😂
Once.
3:19: Speechless!!! We can read in his eyes how he felt about it! So tragic! I suppose he regretted about everything, but it was too late.
lolol earlier he was smiling and clapping at his destruction weapon.
@@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582of he would because that's science and it's a hell of an achievement in human kind though it was for the wrong means but later when he realised the hostility of this weapon specially after the hirshima bomb drop, he wea devastated
@@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582 The idea held by many scientists was that it would be enough to just demo the power to Japanese ambassadors, and that would end the war. Instead the US military chose to destroy civilians right away, without a demo.
Please pay attention, it's too important a lesson to lol at.
@@domlans681 In reality, this was not the case. Oppenheimer was not apologetic or dismayed that the bomb was used to end the war. In all honesty, why would he be? The alternative was an invasion that would kill millions of soldiers and civilians, or surrendering and letting Japan continue their brutal war and enslavement of East Asia.
Is that the unparalleled John Hurt narrating this? He's one of the very few actors who will never be adequately replaced. A unique talent.
A few hours ago I watched a very amateur bootleg copy of OPPENHEIMER. Despite the poor sound, unsteady camera (hidden from staff whilst secretly filming the screen in a cinema?) unwanted internet gambling site ads and French subtitles, I was still _absolutely_ engrossed for its full three hour runtime. It's restored my faith in movies - studios still finance mega-budget films for adult audiences with complex themes and nuanced protagonists. It's a masterpiece that I _must_ see on the cinema screen with professional theater sound.
THE CAST is stellar. Even characters who appear in only one or two scenes, with maybe two lines of dialogue, have hugely successful actors cast in the roles. Although appearing for a relatively short time the character of Colonel Boris Pash really grabbed by attention, to such an extent that I spent an hour 'researching' him (googling) as soon as the film ended. Played by the increasingly impressive Casey Affleck [possible replacement for hugely missed Daniel Day Lewis?] as an enigmatic yet deeply sinister U.S military security expert of Tsarist Russian heritage, with a fanatical vocation to anti-communism. His performance proves the Stanslavski quote: 'There are no small parts, only small actors'.
I could listen to John Hurt talk about grass growing! Rest in Peace you incredible man! 👌
*Auto-generated Captions:* 3:25
*Deaf People:* Oh yeah it's jamming
3:26 When you hold in a big fart but it slips out
MatthewGames2903 YT
Facts
Lol
Honestly, if I had a Time machine, and could go to 10 different historical moments, this would be one of the top 5 on my list to see.
2:54 let's appreciate him for learning to drift in sand with no doubts
Neither the tower nor the shot cab was stainless steel.
They were a minimum of 5.7 miles (10,000 yards) from the blast. The blast wave out there was about 5 mph for 5 seconds.
Oppenheimer's pitch about the Bagahvad Gita was 15 years later. He no doubt felt the weight of responsibility at the time, but few regrets. He quashed such a protest from Leo Szilard a week after the test.
"Cracking the Earth's crust" was never even considered a threat. The threat studied to death was igniting the atmosphere (or even the Earth itself) in a nuclear chain reaction.
i was wondering too.. shockwaves don't work like that
These weapons of mass destruction were used 5000+ years ago by Indian vedic samurai (yodhas) traces of such can be found in Mahabharata and the indus valley civilization. There usage and knowledge was abolished by the GOD himself and the learnings were forbidden
I was wondering why in the world they'd use stainless for the tower.
@@utkarshv3110 no
@@utkarshv3110 they lived in stone huts without proper roads or water system (compared to the romans, never mind modern) yet could build wepons of mass destruction? Far less technological then the egytians during the same period. heck even Mesopotamia 1000 years earlier build far more impresive monuments showing signs of advanced engineering. What they are know for are the urban planing.
Also Mahabharata was written over 2000 years after the fall of the indus valley civilization.
This is the, "How to overclock the i9" tutorial correct?
I9 wouldn't be this cold
Correct.
"Now I became death, the destroyer of the worlds". A spine-chilling line from the spiritual book of 'Bhagavad Gita', written thousands of years ago. Oppenheimer quoting this after the atom bomb says a lot about us as a civilization.
1:30
Hats off to the general....doing his absolute DAMNEDEST to croak out an American accent hahaha
british accent better than american
@@spoon5255
What?
@@manifestgtr Extreme american accent is way worse than british accent
@@itstimetomakelol6650
Give me an example of an “extreme” American accent. I’m not even sure I know what an “extreme” British accent would be....maybe some rural Scottish accent that barely anyone can understand...
That’s a bizarre way to put it, though...extreme...
I hope you're being sarcastic. That Brit's "American" dialect is even worse than Ben Kingsley or Liam Neeson's. Although you could fill Yankee stadium with Americans who can't do a Brit dialect.
2:49 the driver actually can just drive straight ahead but he follow the line on the sand.. what an actor
2:26 when Enrico Fermi dropped some paper to calculate how powerful atomic bomb base on displacement drop paper. His got value same as computer calculation. Legend
im glad this video was suggested during this time, and im from baltic country
This man who talked first is literally crazy. If he destroys the whole world where do he gonna live?
Wissam Ibrahim he didn’t literally mean the whole earth
Ok
“Some people laughed, others cried. Most were silent.”
VR porn goggles are getting very advanced now. 2:05
“Would someone stop Fermi, he’s scaring the privates!” Lol
He said, "He is scarring the MPs."
Enrico Fermi is one of my fav scientists
A day which will live in got you back.
America: *Uses atomic bomb*
Russia: Hold my beer
Correction vodka
How did u f**k that up
Still, russia has more nukes
@@justsomeguywithoutamustach3608 bruh if Americans wanted to continue making more nukes and waisting money we all know we can easily
USA is powerful but Russia is more powerful based on weapons 💀💣...
He actually saved more lives, not just talking of ww2 but in general avoided many wars
oh dont say that
Yeah but their bomb has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more killing power than that of conventional weapons, if one nuke is dropped today, billions will die from the ensuing nuclear war
@Basil He probably refers more to balance of terror or consept of mutually assured destruction. Threat of nuclear weapons possibly prevented cold war from escalating to ww 3.
nonsense
No
1:15 that entire exchange was amazing
"someone shut Fermi up he's frightening the MPs"
Yelp
Lol
I like that OOWAAA music when the jeep drives off and when the glare obscures everything. It makes me laugh for some reason. This is a great clip.
Knowing how many of these are lost keeps me up at night.
Then maybe you should start trying to find them...
@@buckhorncortez where do I start?
@@TheDolefish Research "Broken Arrows" and then knock yourself out... there's still one stuck in the mud at the bottom of the ocean somewhere off of the coast of North Carolina...all of the others have been retrieved.
@@TheDolefish You don’t realize the amount of lives that were saved by Nukes.
John Hurt was such a great narrator and actor.
R.I.P.
3:23
His expression:
"Look upon my works, ye mighty...and despair...."
Nice ozymandius quote
Is that what inspired you to build the death star
2:24 Fermi dropped pieces of paper to, through dimensional analysis, estimate the power of the bomb - he'd worked out a rough equation that related distance they flew backwards to the power of the bomb. He was pretty close to right.
Jesus they knew their stuff back then.
2:13 when ur dad farts
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1:57 me and the boys testing nukes
kosmiske vafler you don’t have any boys
2:13 and 3:27 The famous explosion never get old. 💥
My Edit: 3:28 changing into 3:27
2:14: When drill sergeant caught you cheating
Imagine seeing a nuclear detonation in real life. Even from a safe distance, it would be awesome and terrifying
from a "safe distance" you wouldn't be able to see it. The shock wave goes for miles and miles, bursting everyone's ear drums.
@@maxmckay4793 That's not true at all. It depends a lot on the yield of the weapon, and it most certainly is possible to view from a safe distance.
@Sadeeq Hasan • 10 years ago
Yes
Alot of tests were observed from a "safe" distance.
ua-cam.com/video/yOwH55lnA8M/v-deo.html is misnamed "First British nuclear bomb." It is actually an atmospheric test of Britain's first H bomb. Great footage of the troops and some interviews. "Gosh, that was loud!"
as usual, the dropping of these two bombs brings on the kneejerk reactions of many with good, humane intentions, but totally lacking in knowledge of the facts of the matter.
The most common fallacy is to suggest that an offshore demonstration would have stopped the war. It's an understandably mistaken assumption that is exposed as uninformed.
The USA dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima, followed by widespread dropping of millions of leaflets all across Japan, that it would be repeated until japan surrendered.
So what was Japan's reaction to this real world "demonstration?" It was surely much more convincing and absolute than any offshore demonstration that might have been challenged as a rigged explosion of otherwise conventional explosives.
They refused to surrender. The cabinet representative of the Japanese Army said that he would accept the deaths of 20 Million women and children.
Even after the bombing of Nagasaki offered a second "demonstration" the military refused to surrender. When the Emperor spoke out to stop it, there was an armed battle inside the palace to capture his recorded announcement of surrender. Men on both sides died in the hallways and chambers. Had not that battle inside the Imperial Palace been won by loyal bodyguards, the war would have continued.
Joe Harkins Very true. Are you a history teacher?
They needed a proper use of the bomb on them because even the Napalm bombing on Tokyo which killed 120,000 people didn't stop the Japanese .
That last paragraph basically says "in other words it had nothing to do with the bomb but rather the japanese stubborn military controlling the country".
Seriously, you shot yourself in the foot on that one, because it literally proves the point - the bombs weren't necessary, Japan and its people, its emperor, were willing to surrender. It was the stubborn military leaders who didn't want to be tried for their war crimes that held out and would have continued to hold out regardless of the bombs.
MrLittleLawyer - the emperor certainly showed no indications of desiring peace before the Hiroshima bomb.
i didn't now about that last part, very interesting :)
anyone here after watching 'oppenheimer'
My parent helped test Hydrogen Bombs. I saw his photography and
remember his descriptions. I've also was SCUBA certified by the
US Army Corps of Engineers and afterward trod upon a capsized
German-made warship that survived WMD effects. I swam down
to view the submerged portions. As a child my parent drove me to
Nevada to experience the effects of exploding Atomic Bombs .
All of which has been exploded underground. Then, we went
back to the nearest ice cream outlet for a banana-split serving.
Congratulations
Wow!
Omaha beach got all the attention via the film Saving Private Ryan. The Marines that stormed Guadalcanal and other islands in the Pacific ran into similar circumstances, if not worse. The Japanese were so gun ho that the survivors swam out to sea to drown rather than be captured.
I think The Thin Red Line depicts Guadalcanal
2:26 "The force of the explosion was estimated--"by Enrico Fermi, shown here dropping shreds of paper to estimate the wind speed of the blast. He was famous for that sort of ad hoc estimation. He estimated 10,000 kilotons, about half the actual value, but with the right order of magnitude, good enough for government work. To this day, physics texts still offer "Fermi Problems", which you are supposed to answer by crude approximation to show your grasp of the fundamentals, not to obtain exact answers by detailed calculation. Another that I've seen: A tire loses 3/16" of tread after 10,000 miles. How much tread wears away at each revolution of the tire? (Notice you have to guess the diameter of the tire.)
cool stuff!
@Sadeeq Hasan • 10 years ago Ok
Half inch?
"but within an order of magnitude, that's good enough for government work"
if only he actually said that, that line's a nobel prize in itself
i love the guys just chillaxing and nukebathing
Obviously Oppenheimer was a very smart man, so I know there is a pretty good chance that he is being misrepresented here that he hadn't thought through what these bombs would be used for. But if it is true, and it didn't hit him until he was told of their target.....what the hell else did you think they would be used for? Why would you be making a weapon out of such immense power?
The timing of his revelation was misrepresented here, yeah. It's pretty silly. But he did have a moment, by his own admission. I can kinda see why.
For his job, the short term task was a unique and speculative project whose development outlived the front it was meant for, and the long term consequence was the since-unquestioned survival of the species. I'm sure the former overshadowed the latter at times. I'm also sure he understood the bombs were an existential threat. But there's a reason poets never shut up about how surreal it is to confront your own death.
But yeah, that "moment" of sorts happened right after the test succeeded. He wasn't clapping or cheering like the doc shows, apparently only a few people reacted at all. And a celebratory attitude like that toward some grim new weapon would be very naive of them anyway.
The hilarious thing about this weird assumption is that even if some idiot didn't know they were bombing Japan, absolutely no one would have cared. It was Japan in WW2, America barely had to do anything to demonize them.
Oppenheimer was part of the Targeting Committee that chose the targets.
@@buckhorncortez Okay makes sense. So this is just a fabrication for drama here that he wasn't aware what it was going to be used for until after the successful test
@@dacypher22 Every scientist that worked on the Manhattan Project knew exactly that the bombs would be used in WW II. Originally, they were trying to beat the Germans to the bomb because Nazis in control of an atomic bomb meant they could potentially conquer the entire world. When the Germans surrendered May 7, 1945, the scientists knew the next use would be in Japan.
Let's put this in perspective. In January 1939, Luis Alvarez learned of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman's fission experiment and told Oppenheimer about it. Within a week, Phillip Morrison remembered walking into Oppenheimer’s office and seeing on the blackboard, “a drawing - a very bad drawing an execrable drawing - of a bomb.” So, any idea that the scientists were somehow pawns of the government is a total fabrication.
My late father-in-law, who did get to meet Dr Oppenheimer at a conference years later, was in the outskirts of Hiroshima the morning the bomb was dropped. I got to ask him about the event, what he told me was unexpected; he recalled thinking it was the most "beautiful thing he ever saw". That was the reaction. He reminded me, that he had no idea what it was, it was secret, the world did not know about such weapons. To him, for a few seconds, it was simply a beautiful radiant light. After the war, US research scientists came to studying the aftermath, one of which sponsored him to become a US citizen where eventually he became a scientist himself. In his career he helped found the NOAA ships of opportunity program, helped create models of deep-sea ocean currents and eventually introduced to Dr Oppenheimer at a conference. I'm not confident about what was said precisely, this came directly from him, at that time he was a practicing Quaker, but he claimed it was a simple "thank you". I have a hard time reconciling that.
Who's here after watching Oppenheimer? 😅
Now this bomb is equivalent to a hand grenade. Same thing with the explosion. Just a cute pop.
It's pretty cool how the bomb works. Not cool how we use them.
Nuclear bombs are one of the greatest inventions by humans. They are one of the most beautiful things ever. We shouldn't use them because we are scared of Soviets winning the Japan war. We should use them if we are threatened. Nuclear bombs are the reasons we haven't had a 3rd world war. They are peace keeping weapons
Dayosza yeah, the science to it is fascinating, but it's just a shame that it's so horrible and destructive.
Won't work
Anomely *RUSSIA IS THE BEST AMERICAN STATE!IN UKRAINE*
Andrew nuclear energy is the best thing
It would be cool if we could get a side by side comparison of a convention bomb detonated at the same distance as that nuke just to full appreciate how powerful nukes are.
Nukemap is a website that shows the radius of destruction of various payloads.
Interestingly, we have conventional warheads both smaller and more powerful than both nuclear bombs dropped in Japan.
Beirut was precisely 1kt if not a little more. Times that by hundreds
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@1:27 Love how the "nerds" ( world class top physicists ) just trolled the millitary brass.
Russians built a 100megton bomb but scaled it down to 50 megaton to the plane that dropped it could get away without been vapourized
Clinton Walsh in every video on UA-cam having to do anything with a nuke, you see this exact comment... It's kind of annoying/repetitive by now...
Ahem.....Tsar Bomba.
Yeah but by now the us is probably caught up or beating them
ADHDGAMER Nope, Americans never broke the Tsar Bomba’s record.
Belarus-chan There was no reason to. To suggest either nation cannot build a weapon like the Tsar Bomba is absurd, they are not built because of lack of practicality. These bombs have no capable or consistent delivery system no to mention they do not serve any greater deterrent than already exists. There is a reason the warheads in both nations arsenals are not the "strongest" that can be built. These weapons serve a purpose, first and foremost military targets and much less manufacturing and economic infrastructure. So finally; why have one Tsar Bomb when you can have have multiple warheads on one missile hitting multiple strategic targets? The Russians never sent a man to the moon, does it mean they do not process the technology or is it just no longer practical?
1:24 lol Enrico Fermi being a clown. I love it!
1:46 School computers when you tap on internet explorer 5 times but it won't load
Idk why, but every single time someone mentions the heat of a nuclear bomb I can hear Edna Mode say “It can withstand temperatures of up to 8000 degrees 😎”
When I worked for an electric utility, I had to wear (in many locations) clothing that was rated not to catch fire with 2 seconds of exposure to the temperature of the surface of the sun... more accurately, 10,000F. We semi-joked about it as being so they could see where we had been standing.
He was looking for pictures of spiderman. But found a nuke instead
People simply do not remember the scale of the war and the extraordinary amount of death and suffering that was occurring every single day that the war continued.
Oppenheimer was amazing
FRR
The narrator was excellent
Fun fact: In 1954, the US had several military contingencies for war against the Soviet Union, many of which were nuclear. At one point, an internal critic pointed out that they intended to drop two 1.1 megaton bombs (or one 4.5 megaton bomb in a similar plan) onto a Soviet city roughly the size of Hiroshima in 1945. If this plan had gone through, that city (which was not publicly named) would have experienced *600*x the amount of explosive force unleashed on Japan. Thank whatever god is out there that we've made it this far.
It isn't a huge difference. The difference between this 20 kiloton blast and a 1 megaton blast is 2.2km vs 7.7km of blast radius. That's 3.5 times increase in blast radius compared to 50 times increase in yield. 50 megatons (the largest weapon ever detonated) gets you a 28km blast radius - 13 times the blast radius for 2500 times the yield.
Who’s here after the lebanon 🇱🇧 explosion 💥
Stfu
@@ironwolfsdad3485 tangpe odo eh
Me
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Israel did in lebnon using f35.
1:30 - Who the HELL hired that actor to do an American accent? I am British, but I can tell that isn't real.
The Beast yeah, it's awful. It's like he wasn't even trying. And I've seen plenty of British actors who can sound American. That guy didn't even try to change his accent at all.
Jolly good show old chap !
Than again, the detonation of the bomb is real...
Southern state accent.
American actors - Oversexed, overpaid and over here! Haven't you heard that saying before?
Props to the camera men for getting this footage for real👌🏿👌🏿
Who is here after watching Oppenheimer? Such a fascinating take
2:12 when you ahve a ton of home work and finish it all
Tf
Relaxing?
Dropping dead with exhaustion instantly is what they are getting at, ya'll can now laugh away.
2:02 Sure it was stainless?
Can't have stain if it's not there anymore
Who knew that this test would kick start the creation of something which will become probably the biggest threat to humanity
Oh...let's see..Leo Szilard and Neils Bohr and most of the other physicists. Szilard and Bohr attempted to meet with Roosevelt on that exact subject and wrote a number of papers describing an arms race.
the Cold War was underway, if the Allies had asserted that the Soviet entry Aug 9, 1945 had been the decisive
factor in ending the ww2 would have been tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Considering that the Soviet Union collaborated with Adolf Hitler to start WWII in the first place, I am not keen on giving them anything.
@@sce2aux464 - I wouldn't give them anything anyway because they are commies except some recognition for winning the European War almost singlehandedly
I love watching videos of history❤️ thanks you for uploading
1:46 my ps4 after updating read dead redemption 2
More like Downloading GTA 6
fun fact: if you play queen's "dont stop me now" at 0:01 then the "EXPLODE!!!!!" will sync perfectly to the explosion
This documentary showing on my feeds just now. I better watch Oppenheimer 🤯🤯🤯
You better watch it now