J. Robert Oppenheimer forever changed the course of history. He may be the most important physicist to have ever lived. Part of this video is sponsored by Wren. Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: ?https://www.wren.co/start/veritasium1 For the first 100 people who sign up, I will personally pay for the first month of your subscription!
If you want to learn more about Oppeheimer, I strongly recommend the book 'American Prometheus' By Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. It is a remarkable book, very much deserving of the Pulitzer prize it received.
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A huge thank you to Dr. Martin Rohde and Dr. Antonia Denkova from the TU Delft for proofreading the script and providing valuable feedback.
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References:
Bird, K., & Sherwin, M. J. (2021). American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Atlantic Books.
Smith, A. K., & Weiner, C. (1980). Robert Oppenheimer: letters and recollections. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 36(5), 19-27. - https://ve42.co/Smith1980
Combes, J. M., Duclos, P., & Seiler, R. (1981). The born-oppenheimer approximation. Rigorous atomic and molecular physics, 185-213. - https://ve42.co/Combes1981
Rhodes, R. (2012). The making of the atomic bomb. Simon and Schuster.
Oppenheimer, J. R., & Volkoff, G. M. (1939). On massive neutron cores. Physical Review, 55(4), 374. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1939b
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1927). Bemerkung zur Zerstreuung der ?-Teilchen. Zeitschrift für Physik, 43(5-6), 413-415. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1927
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1927). Zur quantenmechanik der richtungsentartung. Zeitschrift für Physik, 43(1-2), 27-46. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1927b
Born, M., & Oppenheimer, R. (1927). Zur Quantentheorie der Molekeln Annalen der Physik, v. 84. - https://ve42.co/Born1927
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1928). Three notes on the quantum theory of aperiodic effects. Physical review, 31(1), 66.
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1928). On the quantum theory of the capture of electrons. Physical review, 31(3), 349.
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1931). Note on light quanta and the electromagnetic field. Physical Review, 38(4), 725.
Furry, W. H., & Oppenheimer, J. R. (1934). On the theory of the electron and positive. Physical Review, 45(4), 245. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1934
Oppenheimer, J. R. (1935). Note on charge and field fluctuations. Physical Review, 47(2), 144. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1935
Oppenheimer, J. R., & Snyder, H. (1939). On continued gravitational contraction. Physical Review, 56(5), 455. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1939
Oppenheimer, J. R., & Phillips, M. (1935). Note on the transmutation function for deuterons. Physical Review, 48(6), 500. - https://ve42.co/Oppenheimer1935b
Malik, J. (1985). Yields of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions (No. LA-8819). Los Alamos National Lab.(LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). - https://ve42.co/Malik1985
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Written by Petr Lebedev & Derek Muller
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What a burden he had to carry! But Im sure if it wasnt him someone else had done it... because unfortunatly its human nature.
@stargazeronesixseven Says:
🙏 The Little Boy & Fat Man atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima & Nagasaki during WWII Japan were Peacemaker Bombs that Saved Millions of innocent Men , Women & Children from long , miserable , inhumane tortures, sufferings , injuries & death from the non-surrendering Imperial Japanese Military in the Pacific theatre during WWII ... J. Robert Opperheimer should be proud to be chosen to make these Peacemaker atomic bombs when they were desperately needed & prayed for ... 🕯🌼🌿🌏✌🕊
@dj_atek_2951 Says:
Oppenheimer definitely had adhd haha 12:01
@pizzapabpro3160 Says:
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, not at Princeton
@dominicbonogofski Says:
Fun fact: anyone born in Los Alamos during the time that the Manhattan Project was ongoing, their place of birth on their birth certificate was actually just their P.O. box number.
@natejones5402 Says:
Ok look im I hvac class rn and the Freon was invented so we don’t use propane and butane which is explosive in are air condition units so we don’t die,but you’ll are trying to change it back like in class we’re taught not mess with those explosive refrigerants, it’s kinda like we’re regressing like why can’t you make it safer refrigerants instead of the same explosive refrigerant we started with
@alastairhaddix7436 Says:
man made climate change is a lie quit spouting that garbage
@Rickets1911 Says:
Communist traitor.
@sahibealam1904 Says:
Scientists give humanity hope not death instead you are politically influented.
@sahibealam1904 Says:
He very proudly says that he is the death and detroyer of the world for killing the innocent people. Scientists are not doing this they give people hope not death 😢
What if others do the same thing with other nations
American are just businessman actually they are not American they persecute Americans to become American.
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@TheSkypetube Says:
I thought we were building a rice cooker
@apurvtrivedi4871 Says:
Indian culture lacks glamour, but indian thoughts are rich....
@Wraith100 Says:
I would have given anything to meet Dr. Oppenheimer
@dtn1712 Says:
So the US killed 200k civilian and made thousand more suffered for years while they were winning the war and obviously the bomb were not necessary but they did that to scare any future enemy (aka the communist) and they didn't get any war crime convicted? Such a great hypocrisy power
@rogain662 Says:
I would say that the totality of benefits derived from great discoveries has been significantly routed to doing harm to humanity.
@douglasteixeiradeabreu Says:
A Dublagem em português é feita por quem? Não vi nos créditos, amo seu canal!
@MrSivilla Says:
Could they not have shown Japan what they had without actually using it over the 2 cities? If you don't surrender, we'll drop this on you...type thing.
@gabrielm.4554 Says:
Loooots of errors
@stevenplatt2679 Says:
anyone put together that he destroyed the nuclear family with a nuclear bomb or we still just glancing over that
@trickedouttech321 Says:
smoking had nothing to do with his throat cancer, in fact, most people who die of throat cancer have never smoked in their lives, my father was one of them died at 43 in 1986 and was a non-smoker. Don't get me wrong, I not saying smoking is a good thing. I can't stand all the wrong info and fauls narratives out there. In fact, more people have died of throat cancer than have never smoked than those who did smoke. Trust me I spent years trying to understand why my father died when I was 12 yo. I can not stand how wrong humans are, why did you even mention that Oppenheimer was a smoker, it has zero to do with his cancer so why, I just don't get it.
@deonpetrus Says:
Please do a video on why Carbon or CO2 has been so demonized when all plants need it. Are people so dumb as to forget that without plants we will not have any Oxygen to breathe ?
@roshan3113 Says:
The geeta verse that he said after the detonation was to calm himself but it was the devils work.
@erikdevereux4997 Says:
Two points from someone who teaches about nuclear weapons:
1. The better way to understand the energy released by fission is as the kinetic energy of the fission products - large, positively charged ions - pushing away from each other at 30% the speed of light.
2. There are no films of the moment of detonation of Little Boy. The observation plane did not arrive to film. Most of the footage in this video is from Nagasaki of which there is a film from detonation of Fat Man thru the rise of the mushroom cloud into the stratosphere.
Finally, Oppenheimer was not a Communist ever and everyone close to him but his mistress had abandoned communism well before the Manhattan Project.
@aravindj1443 Says:
“More than 95% killed were civilians” that hits differently and all the science just went away for a moment. Wonderful narration. Kudos. Yet to watch the movie. Glad I landed here earlier.
@rafaelpera1027 Says:
melhor nao
@kunaldebbarma8086 Says:
The Russians actually had a 100 MT Tsar Bomba but they didnt have an aircraft to carry the payload
@radharamandwivedi7609 Says:
Sadly he didnt understood that Gita is about killing inside evils and not talks about killing the outer world.This is the way that indian things are written in a story way such that people can grasp the concept but now a days people are not able to get the actual message including oppenheimer. People always hate outer evil but their inner evil keeps growing and growing.
@moontayne_ Says:
Thank you so much for this video. I've recently accepted a full-time role at Los Alamos National Lab, and I think it's important to do research and understand the history and implications of the work I will be completing. I'm very excited by the culture of the laboratory and the ability to help through my role with the different failsafes and safety measures that are being put in place for the nuclear weapons that already exist, and it's been interesting to continue to research the different projects that the lab is working on after the war!
@purplepictures5213 Says:
We were actually so close to a "Fallout" reality
@telezma7878 Says:
Wonder how far are we right now in our fusion energy quest, a video on that would be great.
@PIMG_ Says:
11:09 Rizzler
@MuzanJ Says:
0:42 ayo what
@ivan.457 Says:
the attacks on Japan are pretty much terror attacks. So wrong, poor people.
@IRumburakI Says:
Only whale oil worked. That's crazy man.
@Superboy999T Says:
"How to make an atomic bomb."
Just as I needed!
@shhavdow3279 Says:
At 23:54 I don’t know, or maybe that’s a face while the bomb explode, tell me what you think ?
@user-yc1nb1zt5r Says:
Uranium isn’t green
@HoneySharma-xw2xd Says:
Gita ❤️
@frozenlicks Says:
Nolan: oh great...Thanks for the spoilers!
@aleksejsm.1677 Says:
This man ... that is not a face of someone who is sorry for his creation, hes deeply enjoying the power he created - maniacal face, he is a destroyer of the worlds ...
P.s. oh, yes, that was proven later on in the video.
@waluiginumberone548 Says:
"For every person who dreams up the electric lightbulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb." - Mr. Electric
@tlpenguin3758 Says:
Is this what the song from fallout was about?
@TheHatManCole Says:
I know no one will see this comment, but I think people understimate how many lives the bombings saved, how inevitable the atomic bomb was, how both of the bombings weren't nearly as distructive as the Tokyo firebombings, how children we being trained as suicide bombers, how those tatics were being used on other Japanese islands that were being invaded, how many American lives the bomb saved by preventing the Invasion of Japan, how much shorter the war was because of the bomb, how Japan is only still around today because of the bomb... some of the things I have said are theoretical, but the worst of what I have mentioned was not. There are those who have seen it with their own eyes. I don't trust Oppenheimer as be best moral assessor of his own creation. Let those boys in Guam be the judge of that, let those boys in Iwo Jima be the judge of that, let those boys in Okinawa be the judge of that, let their fiances, wives and families be the judge of that. They lived that day, but they also saw their enemy, the ones that remained, and knew that they too lived because of that bomb. Nobody had to die anymore for America or for Japan anymore. Oppenheimer is a scientist. He only sees statistics, the deaths on paper. He never saw the lives. He blocked those out.
@Cosmin27383 Says:
0:44 this video is about how to build an atomic bomb. Tank you, long awaited tutorial.
@pyjamamc2826 Says:
What scares me, much more than the atomic bomb, is the fact that there is a substantial number of people who sat through the entirety of Oppenheimer and came away with "Oppenheimer is shocked that the weapon he made was used. What a dumb guy."
@racetime1960 Says:
I enjoyed this video very much.
Right up to the point where you started in the lies about climate change.
If you reallu believe in "man caused climate change" I strongly encourage you to do some deep research into it. Look for sources other than the common talking points of the propaganda machine so you can learn the truth.
@bullterror5 Says:
PISS OF LEO DICAPRIO, YOURE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF HISTORY, THE WRONG SIDE
@bullterror5 Says:
THEYVE ARMED GOD WITH MANY, MANY, MANY REASONS TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY - WHICH HE HAD ALREADY ANNOUNCED WAS ON THE HORIZON BEFORE THEY DID ANY OF IT
@bullterror5 Says:
AND THEY TRANSFERS THE CERN DARK MATTER LAB THEY SET UP ON THE HOUSE TO THE CAR AND CONTINUED THEIR EXPERIMENTS
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