J. Robert Oppenheimer: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

[Takes Two To Tango]

I got chills watching this.

 

[Cariñito]

I got chills watching this.

Put a blanket on then or somethin.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Put a blanket on then or somethin.

lol clever.

 

[heavyarms21]

It's Iconic and all told leaders don't want to have to do what was done back then.... or do they dun dun dun.

 

[NoSmilez]

Some little shit school shooter posted this on his social media before he went on a rampage. They ended up blaming fallout or something.

 

[revoltub]

Personally I'm on the fence. I'm mostly a big fan of Murphy and Nolan and their work together.

But for me Dunkirk was pretty Meh. So I'm not convinced yet that historical drama is his strong point. I think Nolan works best with fictional stuff that gets his creative juices going and allows him to play around.

 

[San Marino]

A crying Oppenheimer. Please!
He knew exactly what he was building and what it was going to be used for.
The FBI had been following Oppenheimer since before WWII, when he showed Communist sympathies as a professor at Berkeley and had been close to members of the Communist Party, including his wife and brother. They strongly suspected that he himself was a member of the Party, based on wiretaps in which party members referred to him or appeared to refer to him as a Communist, as well as reports from informers within the Party.

 

[San Marino]

The 'Fat Man' bomb dropped in Nagasaki. Same design as the Trinity Test bomb. Spherical implosion devise using Plutonium-239.
The Hiroshima bomb had a different design and used Uranium-235.

 

[Sirwastealot]

Just one thing to say to oppenheimer, why?

All good being dramatic and getting brownie points saying a cool line afterwards. Your actions actually helped kill a ton of people and you did that for ambition.

 

[San Marino]

As crazy as it sounds, the 'Fat Man' bomb is what is used to initiate a Hydrogen Bomb.
Here is 'Ivy Mike,' the first Hydrogen Bomb test from 1952. 10.4 megatons. 'Fat Man' was only 21 kilotons.
Both the 'Trinity' test and the 'Ivy Mike' test turned out to be more powerful than originally expected.

 

[rj144]

Just one thing to say to oppenheimer, why?

All good being dramatic and getting brownie points saying a cool line afterwards. Your actions actually helped kill a ton of people and you did that for ambition.

Nazis were working on it too. It was us or them at the time.

 

[Sirwastealot]

Nazis were working on it too. It was us or them at the time.

Yes that's true there was a weapons race going on. Its fucked up that it couldn't be nipped in the bud at the time.

 

[Rob Battisti]

Yes that's true there was a weapons race going on. Its fucked up that it couldn't be nipped in the bud at the time.

As horrible as it sounds, dropping 1-2 more would have prevented other countries from developing the bomb and the threat of nuclear holocaust

 

[San Marino]

Nazis were working on it too. It was us or them at the time.

So were the Japanese in a much smaller scale.
Several hundred kilograms of enriched Uranium intended by Nazi Germany for Japanese atom bombs, instead it wound up as part of a U.S. atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima on 6 August of 1945. There can be no doubt that the mysterious cargo coming by submarine from Nazi Germany was 'weapons grade' metalized U-235 enriched Uranium, also called Uranium Oxide UO2 which was emitting very dangerous gamma rays. During World War II, Germany had the motive, the means and the opportunity to produce enriched U-238. Germany had available thousands of tons of Uranium ore and access to the rich Uranium mines in Czechoslovakia.

 

[Cherry Brigand]

Your actions actually helped SAVE MILLIONS of people

FTFY

 

[The HAMA]

 

[Sirwastealot]

FTFY

There was nothing to fix. A ton of people did die.

 

[avenue94]

A crying Oppenheimer. Please!
He knew exactly what he was building and what it was going to be used for.
The FBI had been following Oppenheimer since before WWII, when he showed Communist sympathies as a professor at Berkeley and had been close to members of the Communist Party, including his wife and brother. They strongly suspected that he himself was a member of the Party, based on wiretaps in which party members referred to him or appeared to refer to him as a Communist, as well as reports from informers within the Party.

And? Does that make him immune to feelings? lol

 

[avenue94]

Nazis were working on it too. It was us or them at the time.

So were the Japanese in a much smaller scale.
Several hundred kilograms of enriched Uranium intended by Nazi Germany for Japanese atom bombs, instead it wound up as part of a U.S. atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima on 6 August of 1945. There can be no doubt that the mysterious cargo coming by submarine from Nazi Germany was 'weapons grade' metalized U-235 enriched Uranium, also called Uranium Oxide UO2 which was emitting very dangerous gamma rays. During World War II, Germany had the motive, the means and the opportunity to produce enriched U-238. Germany had available thousands of tons of Uranium ore and access to the rich Uranium mines in Czechoslovakia.

Germany never seriously tried and never had a delivery system. The U.S. atomic program was not meant as a race to beat Germany or for that matter Japan, it was just meant as another weapons project. No one realized it was going to be an entirely different class of weapon.

Just one thing to say to oppenheimer, why?

All good being dramatic and getting brownie points saying a cool line afterwards. Your actions actually helped kill a ton of people and you did that for ambition.

To be blunt, no one really grasped what the ultimate product would be or how it fit into U.S. war plans. You'll see this in the orders for both bombings, they are comically vague. For what it's worth, Oppenheimer did not support the second bombing and spent quite a bit of his energy and reputation trying to make amends in his own way.

 

[Cherry Brigand]

There was nothing to fix. A ton of people did die.

It was total war. Of course they did. But the bombs stopped the invasion of Japan and saved likely 500k to 1M lives.