The film follows the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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00:00 The world will remember this day.
00:04 The Trinity Test and the revelation of the first atomic explosion to the world
00:12 was one of the most important moments in the 20th century.
00:15 It was a massive, miraculous project that many thousands of people were involved with.
00:21 It touched government, it touched science,
00:24 it had huge ramifications for all sorts of ordinary people.
00:28 The Trinity Test and the development and the race
00:31 and the fact that it was all attempting to save kind of humanity from fascism.
00:37 World War II would be over. Our boys would come home.
00:40 This is a matter of life and death.
00:42 But I can perform this miracle.
00:44 What was really interesting was going back and trying to understand what these guys were thinking
00:48 and the terrible decisions that were placed in front of them.
00:51 I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon, but I know the Nazis can.
00:56 We live in the world that we live in because of what happened at Los Alamos.
01:00 Why would we go to the middle of nowhere for who knows how long?
01:04 How about because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world?
01:08 All through humanity we've been blinded by ambition and pursuit
01:12 and then the ramifications is something else.
01:14 That's happening, isn't it?
01:16 I think that's why it's so bizarre and amazing that Chris is making this movie now.
01:20 We're seeing parallels.
01:22 It's a profoundly overwhelming experience watching it.
01:25 It's not a history lesson. It's not telling people this is what you must learn from this.
01:29 But I think it's very clear it can reflect back on what's happening in the world today.
01:34 When I asked Chris what was interesting about why he wanted to make it,
01:38 he said, "I always found that very interesting when they were doing the Trinity test."
01:43 They were asked, "What are the chances of this going wrong and it blowing up the entire world?"
01:48 Chances are near zero.
01:50 Near zero.
01:52 What do you want from theory alone?
01:53 Zero would be nice.
01:55 Detonator charge!
01:56 What is that decision to just still go ahead and do it?
02:01 It's an extraordinary moment in human history.
02:03 And I wanted to take the audience into that room and be there when that button is pushed
02:08 and really fully bring the audience to this moment in time.
02:12 Three, two, one.
02:18 [Explosion]
02:21 [Music]