Oppenheimer | Featurette: Trinity Test - video Dailymotion

The film follows the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Transcript

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]