Point of interest. Washington journal continues. Host Cynthia Kelly cindy kelly is with us. For the last segments, we will dive deeper into Robert Oppenheimer and the history of the Manhattan Project. We will get to your organization, but for the film, are you surprised a film about Robert Oppenheimer has become this Big Box Office draw in the United States . Guest this was my hope. I saw what happened with World War Ii History when Steven Spielberg came out with saving private ryan. Before that there was a World War Ii Commission trying to raise money for this big monument on the mall and they were getting nowhere. That film came out and galvanize the american audience. It taught them of history in a dramatic way that they had not heard before. They raise that money, not only did they raise all of the money for the monument, but money for keeping it maintained for posterity. It was a game changer. Books came out and so forth. We have needed a book a movie like that for the Manhattan P
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Cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] in august 1940 5, 70 years ago, American Forces dropped two atomic bombs over japan. One in nagasaki, the other in hiroshima. Benjamin 10 minutes, recalls being sent to los alamos, new mexico to work on the Manhattan Project. Completely unaware of his function at los alamos, he began working on designing the atomic bombsignition switches. He also discusses the atmosphere of secrecy and the scientists recruited to work there, many of whom went on to have noteworthy careers, including several nobel prize winners. But first, Cynthia Kelly discusses the origins and purposes of their oral history collection. What is the voices of the Manhattan Project . Ms. Kelly the voices of the Manhattan Project is a website that contains 300 oral histories. And we hope someday will be the central repository for the memories of the veterans.
Projecthe manhattan must have employed Something Like 600,000 people over the course of the three years that it operated. , buts a very short project it built the equivalent of the panel the panel canal. Panama canal. They were laborers recruited from all over the country. They were construction workers. None of those people knew what they were doing. All of these hundreds of thousands of people kept the secret because they didnt know what the secret was. They came to work because after the depression many people were just subsistence farmers or driven off their firms in the midwest. To have a steady paycheck was an attractive proposition. Scientists who had fled the persecution of the nazi regime in europe. We benefited from the antisemitism that hitler and his allies represented. We had the leading scientists and physics of the day. J robert oppenheimer, who was in charge of the research would be enough. At los alamos alone, there were 5000 people. They supplemented the senior people