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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 dminus one for the test of the worlds first atomic device. Else this cultured, nonviolent man was responsible for birthing the most violent...

-♪ -(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-minus one for the test of the world's first atomic device. else: this cultured, nonviolent man was ...

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 world. these are prima donnas. and now you have to have somebody who's gonna be the whipmaster. you have to have somebody that understands the physics, who has a r...

♪ 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...

And keep aware of how they all fit together. and this is apparently what general groves recognized in him. eisenbach: for security purposes, this project needs to happen away from everything. so groves tells oppenheimer to just come up with a place where this would actually work. and it was oppenheimer who suggests the new mexico desert. so they go to scope out a site. it's called los alamos. carr: oppenheimer knew the area well. he had spent a lot of time here. charles oppenheimer: when he left new york as a young man and went to new mexico... ...that was a-- just a really important part of h...