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Oppenheimer's life story, it's the story of the 20th century. it's the story of our nuclear age that we're still living with, and that's 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. that's the legacy. and controlling those weapons, it's a never-ending struggle. (explosion rumbling) it was so horrible with a baby bomb. now they have so much mor...

Touch the very basis of our morality. and the committee decision was basically, no, we shouldn't build the hydrogen bomb. if we are guided by fear alone, we'll fail in this time of crisis. the answer to fear sometimes lies in courage. wellerstein: oppenheimer's opposition of the h-bomb was taken very hard by people who were in favor for it. rhodes: the air force wanted more and more bombs and bigger and bigger bombs. the bigger the bomb, in terms of its yield, the more damage one plane could do. herken: the strategic air command was focused upon blowing up the soviet union. oppenheimer said a ...

They don't 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

>> year zero. >> it's the theory -- >> zero would be nice. >> they figured out how to respect each other. how do appreciate each other and like each other. >> they did. i think groves was a really sharp guy also. he went to m.i.t.. he wouldn't mind playing adult in front of the scientists. but he knew what was going on and he understood the science. really a masterful call putting him in charge of the project. >> the russians have a bomb, we are supposed to be years ahead of them but -- what were you guys doing? was its security tight? >> the story requires all of these characters, some of whi...

He visualized lightning striking the train at the same time. and it wasn't something at the board. it was his imagination. >> -- about math, it's also about intuition, and the intuition a physicists is not entirely unrelated to the intuition of artists. that is the key to oppenheimer. it's about relatability. that's a very important part of the breakthroughs that have changed the world. >> oppenheimer was a very highly intelligent, extremely empathetic human being. he says, well, the trinity test was successful, this weapon is now going to be used on a japanese city. these poor little people a...