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-♪ -(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...

We have spent more than two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history, and we have won. (explosion rumbling) newsreel narrator: japan could read its doom. this was more than a routine bombing. it was the funeral pyre of an aggressor nation. ♪

Oppenheimers life story, its the story of the 20th century. its the story of our nuclear age that were still living with, and thats a story that is unfinished. will always be unfinished. (explosion rumbling) else: we have his bomb. his bomb is with us. and we can debate his membership in the communist party or we can debate the ethics of bombing civilians at hiroshima until we drop, but the fact is that we have nuclear weapons. thats the legacy. and controlling those weapons, its a never-ending ...

Newsreel narrator: president trumans dramatic announcement that russia has created an atomic explosion sends reporters racing for flushing meadow, where russias vyshinsky arrives to address the united nations... this puts the u.s. in a really complicated position, because its no longer the only country with nuclear weapons. suddenly, you have the possibility that if war with nuclear weapon broke out between two states that had a fair number of them, they could, in a matter of hours, destroy them...

Oppenheimers life story, its the story of the 20th century. its the story of our nuclear age that were still living with, and thats a story that is unfinished. will always be unfinished. (explosion rumbling) else: we have his bomb. his bomb is with us. and we can debate his membership in the communist party or we can debate the ethics of bombing civilians at hiroshima until we drop, but the fact is that we have nuclear weapons. thats the legacy. and controlling those weapons, its a never-ending ...

And truman interrupts again and says, "well, i know. never. at that point, oppie understands that harry truman doesnt understand anything about the physics of this weapon. and oppenheimer, at that point, says exactly the wrong thing. rhodes: he really offended president truman by saying, "mr. president, i have blood on my hands." (explosion rumbling) bird: this is exactly the wrong thing to say to the guy who made the decision to drop two such bombs on two japanese cities. he was trying to impre...

And oppenheimer represented both sides of that, for sure. nolan: unquestionably, he changed the world. and he changed the world forever. theres no going back. but we know that as long as men are free to ask what they will, free to say what they think, free to think what they must, science will never regress, and freedom itself will never be wholly lost. ♪ (slides clicking) (explosion rumbling)

And oppenheimer represented both sides of that, for sure. nolan: unquestionably, he changed the world. and he changed the world forever. theres no going back. but we know that as long as men are free to ask what they will, free to say what they think, free to think what they must, science will never regress, and freedom itself will never be wholly lost. ♪ (slides clicking) (explosion rumbling)

They dont understand about war. it was all over, sound of happiness. but the sound of the explosion came like a rage over the earth. (explosion rumbling) truman: a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. that bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. it is an atomic bomb. it is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe