The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project

The Moment in Time documents the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II when it was feared the Nazis were developing the atomic bomb. The history of the bomb's development is traced through recollections of those who worked on what was known as "the gadget". [6/2000] [Science] [Show ID: 5090]

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Education

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• Los
• Alamos
• atomic
• bomb
• nuclear
• weapons

[BrianMc469]

I am death , the destroyer of worlds .  R. Oppeheimer

[69salford69]

@SWEEE333EEET "If The states had been bombed, and surrendered, the imperial army could have continued expanding and posed a serious threat to the world."

= Yes, I do not dispute your comment, however SOME would have the opinion that since World War II, the USA has continued expanding, posed a massive threat to the rest of the World which eventually led to World War III - The war on Terror - which has cost millions of lives and looks like we are bringing this "War" to Pakistan and Iran

[ItunesTopSongs]

I'm not against the bombing in Japan, I'm only against the second bomb. I'm in no doubt have huge respect for Feynman, Einstein, Oppenheimer, and everyone else who attended the Manhattan Project. They did what they must, and probably saved us from terrible things.

[Noise509]

"I am death,

The mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy.

Even without your participation all the warriors

Standing arrayed in the opposing armies

Shall cease to exist."

-Krishna

[Blackfriday420]

@emidoisback Countries on all sides used many bombs to raze cities, but the figured out to do it with only one bomb. I hear people like you complaining about the nuclear bomb, but they say nothing about the non-nuclear bombings. It's war People like you only focus on the one questionable thing the US did in the war. You ignore the almost 6 mil civilians slaughtered by the Japs because of race and culture, you don't know about it and you don't care. Only thing you care about is the US looking bad

[Blackfriday420]

@emidoisback What a moronic comment! You are saying that the US killed because of racial and cultural differences? The Japanese killed more innocent civilians, because of cultural and racial differences, than the total number of people (civilians and enemy soldiers) the US killed in WW1 and WW2. Look it up if you don't believe me, but I can guess you won't because you don't care.

[emidoisback]

It now seems to be a false statement, that is nevertheless kept repeated, that the bombs did stop the war. Actually it appears now more and more clear that the bombs were rather irrelevant, it was instead the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that made the situation unbearable for Japan. Secondly I do not think for a second that US dropped the bomb out of the desire to save lives, that's ludicrous. They were quite comfortable with killing Japanese who after all had a different culture, race, religion

[CViFi]

@69salford69 And again who are we to say that democracy is right; Politicians are too easily corrupted. I'd actually go for a fair monarch. The think is that they don't have to think short term. (4 year intervals)

They can actually tell the movie industry that "Suck it up, it is EASIER to pirate than to buy, even when you don't consider what you pay; fix THAT problem instead, I don't need your campaign money, because I'm the King/Queen and don't get elected." And they might sober up a bit.

[1984jlj]

Great documentary. I grew up in Los Alamos and left at age 17........now I know why I glow in the dark :D

[108Dax]

New realized how skew oppenheimers nose was. clever lad though.

[galegregory97comcast]

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