During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves appoints a physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. “This is a national emergency. We’re in a race against the Nazis. And I know what it means if the Nazis have a bomb. We’ve got one hope,” Oppenheimer, says to a group of men in suits.
Believing that the Nazis have an 18-month head start on their own atomic bomb, Oppenheimer and Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, rush to recruit scientists from all across the country.
“Why? Why? How about because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world,” Groves yells at a scientist who questions “why” he should move his family to the “middle of nowhere for who knows how long.”
“Are we saying there’s a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?” the lieutenant asks, to which Oppenheimer replies, “Chances are near zero.I can perform this miracle. The world will remember this day. Our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen,” Oppenheimer says.
The work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.
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