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WHAT IF OPPENHEIMER NEVER INVENTED ATOMIC BOMB #oppenheimer #christophernolan
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in recent interview film maker christopher nolan was asked that what if scientist oppenheimer never invented an atomic bomb? and what would be our present and future?
see how christopher nolan shared his thoughts on this question...
#oppenheimer #christophernolan
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Trinity
In the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the work at Los Alamos culminated in the test of the world's first nuclear weapon. Oppenheimer had code-named the site "Trinity" in mid-1944, saying later that the name came from one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets; he had been introduced to Donne's work in the 1930s by Jean Tatlock, who killed herself in January 1944.[130][131]
Brigadier General Thomas Farrell, who was present in the control bunker with Oppenheimer, recalled:
Dr. Oppenheimer, on whom had rested a very heavy burden, grew tenser as the last seconds ticked off. He scarcely breathed. He held on to a post to steady himself. For the last few seconds, he stared directly ahead and then when the announcer shouted "Now!" and there came this tremendous burst of light followed shortly thereafter by the deep growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief.[132]
Oppenheimer's brother Frank recalled Oppenheimer's first words as, "I guess it worked"
According to a 1949 magazine profile, while witnessing the explosion Oppenheimer thought of verses from the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one ... Now I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."[136] In 1965 he recalled the moment this way:
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.[137][note 4]
Rabi described seeing Oppenheimer somewhat later: "I'll never forget his walk ... like High Noon ... this kind of strut. He had done it".[144] At an assembly at Los Alamos on August 6 (the evening of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima), Oppenheimer took to the stage and clasped his hands together "like a prize-winning boxer" while the crowd cheered. He expressed regret that the weapon was ready too late for use against Nazi Germany.[145]
But on August 17 Oppenheimer traveled to Washington to hand-deliver a letter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson expressing his revulsion and his wish to see nuclear weapons banned.[146] In October he met with President Harry S. Truman. The meeting went badly after Oppenheimer said he felt he had "blood on my hands"; this remark infuriated Truman, who later told his Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson, "I don't want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again".[147][148]
For his services as director of Los Alamos, Oppenheimer was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Truman in 1946.
see how christopher nolan shared his thoughts on this question...
#oppenheimer #christophernolan
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Trinity
In the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the work at Los Alamos culminated in the test of the world's first nuclear weapon. Oppenheimer had code-named the site "Trinity" in mid-1944, saying later that the name came from one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets; he had been introduced to Donne's work in the 1930s by Jean Tatlock, who killed herself in January 1944.[130][131]
Brigadier General Thomas Farrell, who was present in the control bunker with Oppenheimer, recalled:
Dr. Oppenheimer, on whom had rested a very heavy burden, grew tenser as the last seconds ticked off. He scarcely breathed. He held on to a post to steady himself. For the last few seconds, he stared directly ahead and then when the announcer shouted "Now!" and there came this tremendous burst of light followed shortly thereafter by the deep growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief.[132]
Oppenheimer's brother Frank recalled Oppenheimer's first words as, "I guess it worked"
According to a 1949 magazine profile, while witnessing the explosion Oppenheimer thought of verses from the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one ... Now I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."[136] In 1965 he recalled the moment this way:
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.[137][note 4]
Rabi described seeing Oppenheimer somewhat later: "I'll never forget his walk ... like High Noon ... this kind of strut. He had done it".[144] At an assembly at Los Alamos on August 6 (the evening of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima), Oppenheimer took to the stage and clasped his hands together "like a prize-winning boxer" while the crowd cheered. He expressed regret that the weapon was ready too late for use against Nazi Germany.[145]
But on August 17 Oppenheimer traveled to Washington to hand-deliver a letter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson expressing his revulsion and his wish to see nuclear weapons banned.[146] In October he met with President Harry S. Truman. The meeting went badly after Oppenheimer said he felt he had "blood on my hands"; this remark infuriated Truman, who later told his Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson, "I don't want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again".[147][148]
For his services as director of Los Alamos, Oppenheimer was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Truman in 1946.