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It's become a thing over time that i don't sit in my chair when it's put out. and so eventually they stop bothering to put it out for me. why is that? why don't you? because it's pretty hard to get up once you've sat. you know, directing films, it's quite a physicaljob. it's quite tiring, very long days. you're on your feet all day. when you sit down, your energy level ebbs, you know, and it's harder to get up. makes sense. so i keep my energy levels up by by not sitting down, but i don't i don't impose that. it might make them feel a bit guilty, but that's on of them, not me. absolutely. you'...

♪ newsreel narrator: by the summer of 1942, control of the atom bomb projec passes to the hands of the army under the code name manhattan engineering district. carr: the manhattan project really was a huge national effort. rhodes: and to plot out the industrial scale of the operation, they chose a dynamic, burly, six-foot-three, 240-pound general named leslie richard groves. he hated leslie. he went by dick. general groves had a problem. he was entrusted to hire the people that would build the atomic bomb. but he knew that we're talking about the people who are the finest scientists in the w...

(ticking)first step to see if your small business newsreel narrator: when the cancerous nazi growth spread farther still, the people of europe-- and the world-- enter the new era. rhodes: certainly the first motivation for the scientists was to beat the germans to the bomb. there's nothing like the prospect of a hanging to concentrate the mind. and the threat of death of civilization as they knew it was so great that it swept away any ethical or moral doubts that they might have had. wellerstein: ultimately, whoever gets the bomb first is not just gonna win world war ii but is gonna run the en...

Booked tickets for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer? Then you need to read this! Here we break down the science behind atomic bombs.

Decades before Christopher Nolan set his sights on a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a science-obsessed BBC executive ventured to America in 1979 to make a $1.5 million TV show about the father of the atom bomb. Peter Goodchild began his career at the BBC in radio drama, but eventually migrated to the storied “Horizon” […]