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As Iran's nuclear program has developed, the Bush administration appeared to draw a red line: a nuclear weapons-capable Islamic Republic would be unacceptable. On August 8, 2004, for example, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told NBC News
With as a young man, oppenheimer�*s visualizations of what's inside dull matter what makes up the universe. this was a revolutionary new way of looking at it, where they're seeing the energy inside this. so we need it to visualize these quantum mechanics that what's going on. and you do that so well early on when you getting inside his mind of kind of these incredible concepts that he's grappling with exactly those things. exactly those things. then there's a thread that leads those things all the way to their ultimate outward expression with the destructive force of the first atomic bomb de...
Where they're seeing the energy inside this. so we need it to visualize these quantum mechanics that what's going on. and you do that so well early on when you getting inside his mind of kind of these incredible concepts that he's grappling with. exactly those things. then there's a thread that leads those things all the way to their ultimate outward expression with the destructive force of the first atomic bomb demonstrated in the trinity test. so that imagery needed to be made from very, very microscopic things that serve to represent things that are much larger, but also some huge, large sc...
Using it as an atomic weapon, but we we did as far as we could really try to reproduce the the circumstances of it. and i think it was a great help for the actors. a lot of the tension of the sequence comes from the process, the safety protocols of leading up to the bomb, the switches that are thrown, the keys that are turned, those kind of things, the nervous glances that are exchanged. now, having all of that build up, having all of that detail was essential because what we're trying to portray is this moment of absolute beauty and absolute terror, you know, and where computer imagery could ...
You have to think about the motivation for him doing this project in the first place which was he was a jew of german descent. 1939, the nazis discovered nuclear fission and we believed they had very much of a two-year head start on us in terms of going for the bomb. certainly nobody wanted to see hitler be the first to have an atomic weapon. that was the motivation for all the manhattan project scientists throughout the war. where it gets murky somewhere germany's defeated and the target shifts to japan. and oppenheimer by that point so far into it and he i think along with many others ration...