The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer FULL SPECIAL | American Experience | PBS America
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- In the Spring of 1954, the U.S. government put J. Robert Oppenheimer, the country's preeminent atomic scientist and the man behind the atomic bomb, on trial for national loyalty. The setting was a hearing to determine the status of Opppenheimer's security clearance, but the drama that unfolded was a parade of all the fears of a paranoid Cold War government desperate not to be outgunned.
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PBS is so heavily underrated. I hope public broadcast will get more of the attention it needs
Unfortunately PBS is blighted by leftist propaganda.
To thrive more than it does, public broadcasting needs content that is correctly balanced and created by people who can think, weigh issues using maths and logic, and not talk down to people. In America at the moment these attributes frighten the left and the Democrat political machine
almost total agreement ... PBS NEWSHOUR has been a private for profit company originally owned by both McNeill and Lehrer. The opening commercials are mega pharma mega defense contractors and Warren Buffet corps .. oh .. and viewers like you. American Experience and documentary series are excellent.
I am from the Netherlands and I just love PBS. High quality docs!
PBS is one of the very few American information service programmes that here in England are thought to be reasonably honest and trustworthy.
Extremely well written and produced documentary. Sadly, this man was not a security risk or a madman but a rather sensitive and lost soul with a brilliant scientific mind. A patriarch who did what his cou try asked him to do and distressed at what the atomic bomb did to the civilian targets in Japan . He wanted to see some control over these weapons of mass destruction. A atomic scientist , not a military man he feared what the world knows know. Both Russia and the USA have enough destructive nuclear weapons to destroy the plant. It's weather those in power have the sense not to use them. Oppenheimer was a scapegoat for these military men and they wanted and did destroy him. It's sad and shameful. Thank you for this film that he was not the destroyer of worlds.😢
Well, he can still be, now even more than ever
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The world was insane then and becoming worse as history repeats, esp coming into November 2024
ps - your spellcheck, like mine, sometimes produce some comical concepts 👌
Its weather ?? Its whether and planet not plant
I viewed this a couple of days after watching Oppenheimer, the film. Both are revealing.
In mid 50's, we lived on west coast of N America.
As kids we found it whimsical when our mother would remark "they let off another bomb, kids" during unusual summer rains that soaked the land and coincided with news reports.
Thus, we played indoors during those strange days
Fantastic documentary. Perfect accompaniment to the film at the cinema I watched last night. It's good to know the facts behind the dramatic licence in the film. Many thanks.
Yeah that was my biggest issue with the movie - I really liked it but having first read the biography Nolans screenplay is based off I thought there were a few too many dramatic liberties taken.... Still a fine movie though.
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The film is very good indeed, I saw it last week along with my brother (who once studied theoretical physics - we still share an interest in physics and astronomy). Beautifully written, acted, staged and directed...I'm sure it will pick up a couple of Oscars next spring. An in-depth portrait of a complex man and the twisted times around him.
There's a crucial line towards the end of the film where Gen. Leslie Groves is asked: "based on what we now know, would you have hired him as scientific director?" and he replies: "Based on the criteria of the Atomic Energy Act - which didn't exist in 1942, when I appointed him - I wouldn't have given him a security clearance, no. /brief pause/ But honestly, going by that law I wouldn't have hired ANY of those guys!". By the standards of the later law (which was written as the Cold War was already underway) he wouldn't have hired any of the top physicists who contributed to the project and made it a success - and so, there wouldn't have been a US bomb in time. I assume this line is most likely adapted from Groves' real statements, either at the hearings or in his 1962 book about his time with the Manhattan Project (which I think I'll try to get hold of).
If you enjoyed this and the movie check out the Oppenheimer miniseries from 1980.
@@QuasiMonkey Yep, I found that one here on CZcams a week or two before I went to see the new film. Looks really good, but I've been quite busy and haven't had the time to watch it yet. Nolan's film is great and I feel sure it will catch several Oscar nominations next spring.
After viewing this, I’m not sure I need to even view the movie now. Splendid job!
with 3 days interval... the movie and this doc enrich each other.
This is an extraordinary piece of work. I hope J Robert would have liked it. There is no room for any complexity in politics especially in American politics. We often associate "If you are not with us, you are against us" with that very little man, George W Bush, but it is a cry from simpletons who do not know or care what he/she is doing.
This is shown, I think, in some of the hearing scenes in the movie with Roger Robb. They can’t get the nuances of thought and emotion.
Well said - Bush is easily the biggest war criminal
Hoover, Strauss, Bush Jr. are mopes including an upcoming fascist in 2024
Amazing documentary. perfectly depicted the trial and the witch hunt against J Robert Oppenheimer.
The country asked him to do what he did and it’s not as if he had not given a previous warning because he did! People with brilliance are used and then dumped!
It feels like we've all been used n abused
Yup! His country did him dirty just like our country did Alan Turing. Both men helped end the war.
Excellent documentry.
David Strathairn is excellent actor. Very underrated!
Documentary brilliant giving all the details. Movie was excellent too within the parameters imposed on it by being a movie.
You did a great job of telling a compelling story.
Just watched the movie, now it's time for the documentary.
doc is far better; strauss was bastard and mccarthy too; 50ths in US was far worse shit than here; megabastard teller was hated by any humble human scientist; and now, we are consuming any moral NAZI bullshit again ...
Nice documentary 😊
Not very much has changed, ego drove these people to commit unspeakable sins against an innocent world.
Yeah! So I think that life is hard. I have no inkling of hard. Much respect Mr Oppenheimer, "you were a man, my friend".
If people like this, I highly recommend the 1980 BCC series Oppenheimer, starring Sam Waterson as Oppenheimer, it can be found on youTube
Interesting Story , Never New So Many Things About This Man ...
You weren't supposed to.
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*knew
@@January.- you beat me to it.
Wonderful!
He gave a weapon to a civilization that did not have the intelligence to understand what they had, and went down the road of human extinction..
But the nation did in fact not destroy the world. In fact, it looks like the world has been kept from being destroyed due to these horrid weapons
Fortunately, we are still on the road, not at its end ... not yet.
@@jacobjorgenson9285 Those weapons only bought time, and has prevented nothing, for those who’ve been eagerly rewriting history with woke ideological determination are intent on succeeding in world domination or killing us all trying..
Dirty politics destroyed a great scientist
Oppenheimer broke the rules stipulated by his security clearance, so he lost that clearance. He knew scientists at Los Alamos were being approached by the soviets and didn't report it, but worse, he lied when asked.
He wasn't "destroyed"; he went on to have a career at the top of the academic establishment and enjoyed a comfortable life.
For a full and objective account, the Ray Monk biography is superb. This doco is very good but very one sided, in tone if not in substance.
This is far better than the movie
Oppenheimer is a brilliant boy, an handsome guy, and the renown scientist - greater than many. Live on Oppenheimer !!! God gave you that ability to stop (bomb) evil - look at that!!!
Jewish monster, one of many "-steins" and "-heimers".
With or without him there would still be a nuclear weapon
Nobody remembers Tellers or Straus!!! They had personal jealousy.
It reflect the conflict between the civilians and the military people
This was interesting.
There is a little satisfaction to know that Edward Teller lived long enough to be 95 and despised for the rest of his life by the International Research World Scientific community as "Dr. Strangelove" ...
Teller was indeed reviled in the media as an ice-cold trigger-happy warrior who just wanted to build bugger and more fearsome bombs, but during the war both he and Oppenheimer were aware of the moral complexities of bringing these new weapons into the world.
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Don't twist my post .
I said : "despised by the Scientific Community" .. nothing to do with the Media.
Also, your comment is very short sighted.
Whatever happened during the WW2 effort happened, my intention was to be implicit in whatever they did "after WW2" and what legacy they brought upon themselves.
Exemple : Edward Teller is credited for fusion fuel nuclear core (hydrogen) when R.Oppenheimer and a majority scientists in Los Alamos would have none of it in their final Report, but also the miniaturization of a dry source nuclear core rendering possible the development of single warhead ICBM, SLBM and later multiple warheads ones ..
Historically, the Atomic bomb's purpose was to "end a war", Edward Teller's legacy was to turn his work into how to create weapons that were meant to "wage a nuclear war".
E.Teller had no moral compass at all from the beginning.
This demonstrates paranoia. If you do not trust a person, you cannot trust anything they say.
I love you, please keep up your good work and maintain your dry sense of humour.
The guy heavy eyebrow scientist who wanted to build the hydrogen bomb (instead of the atomic bomb) who worked with Oppenheimer should be interrogated. Why is nobody looking there???
Edward Teller. He wasn't a communist either, he was a Hungarian refugee. I met him at the wedding of his daughter to my best buddy several years ago. (My then-husband worked with her and I worked with the groom and we set them up on their first date, lol.)
Probably because he wasn't under suspicion of being a communist.
Oppenheimer had too many friends connected to communist parties, even if they weren't dedicated to the cause, it didn't matter due to the extreme gvmnt fear of communism.
Einstein advised Oppenheimer to ignore the whole lot of them.
Einstein is the true assessin, not Oppie
@@carmengtv1Nuclear fission was inevitable, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller... Someone was going to make it happen.
Unfortunately, always the US' Achilles heel; it cynically, corruptly consumes itself from within.
Amazing Story I loved it. beautiful natrentaited. films of 1 and 2 showed originality. Need more Documentary's like this.?.
The Science of Death
You mean the science of Killogogy, invented by David Grossman.
You will SEE
"Guilty until proven innocent" - that's a bizarre perversion of justice and VERY un-American ! The movie is great, but the US government put a guy through the meat grinder who had helped them win WW2. I'm not saying that JR Oppenheimer is a hero - and he wouldn't call himself this either - but his treatment during the trials was - politely speaking - grossly unfair, and viewed realistically absolutely scandalous. The McCarthy era is a black mark on American history !
Truth tellers are always run out in America . Light and dark always come in equals and thus the USA has a huge pitch black underbelly
True😂
This great, well-made, and wonderful way to tell history's story. So many ways to tell stories, how lucky are we ? ☺🤓
And all free on CZcams !
As Elon Musk reportedly said, because of the Internet, people today know more than even a President (of the United States) knew just decades ago.
They should make a film about this geezer I think it would do okay at the box office
Oppenheimer's eyes are so black and dark. Its like his soul is totally gone and he is just a shell of a person.
A rare case of a scientist with the "thousand mile stare" ...
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He had blue eyes. ;)
You support me in my free time, I support your splendid film, thank you
McCarthy..... The Ken Starr of his day..... Problem solvers and problem makers , Ted Cruz comes to mind as a ^problem maker" among the others
If you think inproblems,there are a simple word Hunter
So, this case was more about capitalist interests in the weapons industry than anything else. Wish the programme authors had explored the trillions the government spent and manufacturers made on the build-up.
yeah, the communist don't have the bomb, what a....
Oppenheimer understood that procession of nuclear weapons enabled countries to accomplish the darkest of goals and policies with no possible retribution, the lose of all humanity,
My Dad gave me the same thing, also a collection of the different mineral sands.
I feel sad for the man, but at the same time, because of men like him we live in fear of a nuclear war since 1945...
That's what bothers you? He was responsible for thousands of deaths!
He saved millions of lives...Japanese and American 😊
communist
The Russians figured it out as well.
Without nuclear weapons we would still have super power wars . They keep the world in check !
Feel sorry for the many who died
Since Oppenheimer thought about people, they didn’t want him in their military plan. He might stand in the way based on his godly Jewish conscience. Like I said, there are killers and then there is Oppenheimer with a consciences.
Oppie never smoked a pipe! Cigarette's were always hanging from his mouth or swinging in his fingers.
Such naughty little boys are no longer in charge of big toys , we have higher power protection
I feel not too much sorry for this man, what he unleashed was evil and he also had a big hand in dropping them
A honestly humane man, hunted by his own brilliance was betrayed by the politics of his own country.
Story of Robert J. Oppenheimer 😢
Haunted by not hunted
He looked older than 62.
Cette video est pleinement enrichissante !!!
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very good but far too many commercials, turned it off.
Wait, this isn't the Barbie movie...
Like many others, I'm conflicted on the US's development of nuclear weapons. The Soviets had their own scientists working on the same thing - we'd have been in much worse shape had they gotten there first, I think. Of course I wish nobody had ever discovered this science, but we can say that about a lot of things. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction, for sure!
With all due respect to the narrator, but there is a far superior version of this documentary with Zoe Wanamaker doing the narration. Her fabulous voice adds an authentic, sensitive gravitas to the accompanying action. It was on CZcams about 10 years ago but it must have dematerialised into the 11th dimension. Shame.
It is currently on the iPlayer if you have access.
Get a job sweetie! You’ll be ok
Well I would not say fabulous voice
@@jacobjorgenson9285 How utterly glib of you,
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This documentary is somehow more poignant than the recent film
A feature film should show and not tell and is a piece of art at the end of the day, a doc on the other hand is obliged to tell. I think that’s the real distinction between Nolan’s work and this
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The role of various countries in the defeat of Nazi Germany is complex and multifaceted. While the United States did provide significant support to Britain and other Allied nations through the lend-lease program, it's true that the Soviet Union (Russia) played a crucial role in the defeat of Nazi Germany, particularly on the Eastern Front.
The Soviet Union's sacrifices and victories, such as the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad, were pivotal in turning the tide of the war against Germany. However, it's also important to acknowledge the contributions of all Allied nations, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and others, in ultimately defeating the Axis powers.
Historical narratives can vary depending on cultural and national perspectives, and it's not uncommon for different countries to emphasize different aspects of their own contributions to the war effort. Hollywood, as a cultural industry, often portrays events in a way that resonates with American audiences, which may sometimes lead to oversimplified or skewed representations of historical events.
The photo of his father, at about 7:11, am I the only one who sees a real resemblance to Lord Lucan? 🤷🏻♀️
Coitadinho... Tão inocente quanto o tempo.
Just shows how much filth there is and always has been in American politics
PBS at their best. Strange that my American friends can NOT watch this video :\
What? I'm sure they are allowed to watch it .... I'm in Australia watching it why would it be banned. It isn't Russia China North Korea or Iran.
@@raymondparnell439 CZcams censorship exists also for Americans, make no mistake.
I'm in Mumbai, India and watching it. Strange that Americans can't
@@tykjenffs Nah, American Experience episodes are available free in the main PBS portal www.youtube.com/@AmericanExperiencePBS where those episodes are often geo blocked for most international viewers with only select episodes available outside the US. They made this one available on PBS america for international audiences due to the recent movie on Oppenheimer.
@@raymondparnell439Nope. I turned off my VPN and it said "was not available in your country". I knew censorship had started to get bad in America, I just did not know HOW bad
I stopped watching that ridiculous movie to come here. Thanks PBS for being regularly awesome.
Can we get the Eastern version of this. The western view is different and must be compared.
I'd been thinking I would go see the recent movie, but after watching this there's no need. Along with the Trinity program and probably a few others I haven't yet discovered, PBS has documented a history that simply doesn't need hollywood. Indeed since I discovered PBS on youtube, I haven't yet seen a dud on any topic. Only one hitch - there was that one brief scene addressing why they didn't merely demonstrate the bomb to the Japanese. But the explanation given was a non-answer, made no sense at all. I was surprised the producers opted to go with it.
Strauss I’m went through his Karma experience.
I’m sure
Why they talk so bad about the guy??? He is a German Jew not a English American. He knew that Hitler was killing his Jewish people and he had to do something about it. Think about that !!!
Why don’t we agree you haven’t the faintest idea what he thought?
20yrs of psychic torture; they selected him intentionally to spit on him in any case;
The suffering caused to Bikini Islanders was horrific from bomb testing. So much illnesses and nobody cared. Documentary in youtube somrwhere. .
Americans like commercial news
the federation made mr Oppenheimer a patsy
The facts say, however, that because of this man and those who followed him, two cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dissolved and 300,000 people evaporated; plus the hundreds of thousands of contaminated people who died as a result. And that would be a good man. There was no need to drop the bombs, which were built in the event that Hitler got there first. When the atomic bombs were dropped, Germany had already surrendered and Hitler dead. The dropping was just a show of force, like saying, _now in the world, from now on we rule_ . Continue to be fooled by propaganda!
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CIA = KGB
what the hell is AJ Soprano's guidance counselor doing playing Oppenheimer? Has the world gone mad??!
yugoslavi was never part of soviet union so this map was wrong
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@@lennarthagen3638 You only comment or message to be Racist to feel superior to all Races I don’t like Racist people That hate Indigenous People Asian people Black people Arab people
All i can say is that in my life time this man did hid job, gave what was asked of bim , but reflected on just what it was that he had put into the hands of total idiots wbo frankly i would not trust with a box of matches far less a weapon of such destruction.
Everything i have come to completely dislike completely is refected in everything the U.S. has done since.
A nation that above all has far greater degrees than one could every imagine become everything that is dispicable, though far stronger word still fall short of describing a nation so full of its own importance purely in its own eyes, and tbousands of niles away from anything or person could say they are proud of, it has become the very thing it convicted this great man of being, with one very huge difference, it is a tbousand times worst than anything they could accuse this guy of being.
In short it is without doubt the most dispicable nation on earth by far, and goes out of its way to prove the point daily.
I can only say that Mr. Oppenheimer at least rest in peace in the sure knowledge that he did his HONEST best for his country and i think knew well before the rest of us became aware that his country from day one had no moral fibre what so ever, and never would have.
I am just waitingbfor the day when thecworld finds it impossible to continue without first getting rid of the biggest component of lies and decept the world has ever had the misfortune to allow to grow thus far, if we are to servive we need to bring down to size this monster which is America, ifvwe dont none will servive.
They did him dirty.
Its not unclear if its nuclear
monster
Even he kills less people than Marx
Government behave always like a gangster.
Garnki 1st❤
I Robot. and end
This is my personal opinion only and I could be wrong for oversimplifying this whole situation but I believe he was targeted for being a Jew
Totally anoying soundtrack in the first part.
Get a job
So Japan was never in the race of "getting the bomb" ?
no hitler no hirohito = no bomb
@@drakelang8342 That unfortunately just isn't true... Once fission was discovered & shared with the world Physicist the world over understood the bomb was inevitable.
Humans absolutely would have made the bomb with or without WW2...
Their focused in Chemical & Biological weapons
Are we supposed to feel sorry for this guy? Is he being presented as being humane? Bur the highest achievement of his life was totally inhumane.
My thought exactly
No you are supposed to attempt to understand him. Obviously.
Would you feel happier if the Nazis had developed the atom bomb first?
Yes the goal of the video is for you understand his choices and decisions that eventually created the strongest war enderr in the world.
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Great video. Communism for beginners. Thanks Zach for your explanation.
Like the generational i nb ree der that you are, this one, like everything else, obviously went right over your head. Lol
Greatest world criminal ever existed on planet earth . Fully deserved in name of his victims whatever happen to him or his family . He knew very well what he was doing and killing milions with his ''baby'' bomb ,there is no excuse for him , whatever he said afterwards .Great and brilliant scientists put their knowledge in a good use to prosper the world , not to kill and destroy .War criminals , they do .
Are you aware of something called WWII? And that the scientists were asked to come up with an atomic bomb because Germany was the one who discovered the fission of the atomefirst and foremost and there was widespread fear the nazis would thus invent the atomic bomb first?
Hollywood spin, the real eye colour of Oppo's BROWN ,,,
C.Murphy plays him Peircing BLUE eyes..
Actually his eyes really were blue. (Google it - I just did, but can't post any photos.)
Fun fact most of his poems dealt with fantasies of rape and he also forced himself upon a girl in England great historical figure though.
Proof?
infamous historical figure
Lier
@@carmengtv1 *Liar.
Ya.... we need to go on another communist round up.
Communism isn't a problem, but fascism certainly is.
You know what this documentary needs? A few more adverts. I was only getting an advert every 7- 8mins. Wish they were every 4 mins.
Pay for the pleasure of such content then! You tube prime
@@jacobjorgenson9285 why would I go prime, I just said I like watching adverts and wish the upload had more of them.
Perhaps he was on the autism spectrum?
no hitler no hirohito = no bomb
No need to kill thousands of civilians... You can not justify that