00:00 Who was Oppenheimer? The subject of Christopher Nolan's new film Julius Robert Oppenheimer
00:05 is known as the father of the atomic bomb. He was an American theoretical physicist and
00:09 the top scientist in charge of developing the world's first nuclear weapon. He produced
00:13 two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man. In August 1945, those two bombs were dropped on the
00:19 Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs destroyed those two cities and killed
00:24 at least 110,000 people. He defended the development of the bombs, saying people needed to see
00:29 the capabilities of nuclear weapons. For Oppenheimer, the son of German Jews, originally said he
00:35 would have preferred the bombs to be used on the Nazis. The bombing haunted Oppenheimer
00:40 and he felt he had blood on his hands. He then dedicated the rest of his life to lobbying
00:47 for regulations surrounding nuclear weapons.
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