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The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. | dG1faFBJemdaMTZvYWM
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00:00This is a national emergency.
00:11Detonator's charged!
00:26We're in a race against the Nazis.
00:30And I know what it means.
00:34If the Nazis have a bomb.
00:39We have a 12-month head start.
00:4118.
00:42How could you possibly know that?
00:45We've got one hope.
00:47All America's industrial might and scientific innovation connected here.
00:52A secret laboratory.
00:55Keep everyone there until it's done.
01:00Let's go recruit some scientists.
01:05Build a town, build it fast.
01:07If you don't let scientists bring their families, we'll never get the best.
01:10Why would we go to the middle of nowhere for who knows how long?
01:19Why?
01:20Why?
01:21How about because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world?
01:25You're the great improviser, but this, you can't do in your head.
01:34Are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?
01:40Chances are near zero.
01:43Near zero.
01:44What do you want from theory alone?
01:45Zero.
01:46Zero.
01:47Would be nice.
01:53This is a matter of life and death.
01:56I can perform this miracle.
01:58World War II would be over.
02:01Our boys would come home.
02:05That's happening, isn't it?
02:11The world will remember this day.
02:14Our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen.
02:27Until somebody builds a bigger wall.
02:33You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves.
02:38And the world is not prepared.
02:44Eight.
02:49Seven.
02:52Six.
02:54Five.
02:56Four.
02:58Three.
02:59Truman needs to know what's next.
03:00Two.
03:01What's next?
03:02One.
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