Robert Oppenheimer speaking at UCLA 5/14/1964

[@pbennett13]

Just saw 'Oppenheimer' film... it's amazing how much Cillian Murphy sounds like him... Great movie worth seeing

[@BartAlder]

"Bohr was the first recipient of the Atoms for Peace Prize. No one quite knows what that prize is for... but everyone agreed this was the right man to give it to."

[@desaivinod1]

Oppenheimer deserved a Nobel for his work. But because of suspicion of his left connection he was denied. His security was taken off.

[@ramanunnikrishnan7354]

@@desaivinod1 which particular work, his work seems to be rather diverse from nuclear to astrophysics

[@desaivinod1]

Please read his biography

[@muttleycrew]

Timestamp: 2:00

[@stridgefreerd9061]

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[@KB4QAA]

Corrected title: Robert Oppenheimer on Niels Bohr and Nuclear Weapons:

[@kevinscott9499]

I agree was expecting Oppenheimer talking about Oppenheimer

[@MistressGlowWorm]

Neils Bohr is God, Oppenheimer saw that.

[@exoplanet11]

Thank you.

[@ragingturtle93]

⁠u

[@jmjm1920]

German discovered Uranium American found Plutonium 💣 😊

[@jimtussing]

His voice is full of sincerity and sounds like Mr. Rogers.

[@dgaf6]

I'm a girl in a new generation. By that i mean i was born in 2001. Sometimes I feel sad that I can't talk to someone like mr.Oppenheimer. His incredibly pleasant speech, the softness and depth of his voice make Oppenheimer an absolute genius in both oratory and ordinary communication. Rest in peace, Julius Robert Oppenheimer ♡

[@dirtyunclehubert]

he was the mr rogers of nuclear mass destruction.

[@Red_22809]

I totally agree with you! Although I was born in 2010

[@williamreeves32]

So exactly right.

[@dgaf6]

@@joey3708 It would be an honor for me to talk with such men of science! You are a lucky guy, sir!

[@LoyalOpposition]

I graduated high school in 2000, but everything I love (music, film, humor, etc) was made before me. I can't talk to anyone...

[@landedinlukla]

The eloquence of Oppenheimer's speech is...simply unbelievable. Wow.

[@ssotkow]

Also, he can often speak off the top of his head for one hour without supplemental notes.

[@yankeeskunkee8519]

you mean his zombie like monotone, you have very bad taste imo

[@alexanderemese6083]

There's a deep hint of sadness in his voice. "What have I done?" Why couldn't I prevent humanity from being given the opportunity to wipe itself out? It's not the disappointment of not receiving a Nobel Prize. 

[@vatchekerametlian8752]

O

[@DrBliss23]

This stuff is important history. People like Oppenheimer walk this way for a short time, and their legacy changes the world irretrievably. It is so cool to be able to listen to these movers and shakers from the past. KZbin is far more than cute kitties, and amateur porn, thank the Lord.

[@REAPER3fitty]

there's amatuer porn here?...

[@songchen4505]

+REAPER3fitty amateur pop?

[@-taz-]

+James Caldwell Yeah or you can listen to this and watch cute kittens in another tab with the audio muted. That's what Oppenheimer would have wanted.

[@DrBliss23]

Anything is possible in the big city. Lol.

[@roymarius1634]

Movers, shakers, salad-shooters...

[@denormal9580]

There's something very distinctive about his voice. He speaks each word with purpose and very clear thought, as if he really cares about what he's saying. No doubt he's a highly mindful man that really cared about his work.

[@ayushvasurudragour427]

exactly what i thought

[@mangoman667]

The weight of the instant death of 115k people and eventually 375k total is on his shoulders. It sounds like a terrible burden to bear.

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

@@mangoman667 It was a collaborative work made possible with hundreds of scientifics. He wasn't at the top, all followed orders and pressures and nobody did it, it just happened. That seems the attitude of all who were being involved. Nobody wants to own that chair.

[@tomlahr9372]

It was a tragedy for Oppenheimer to believe that burden was deserved. Obviously Oppenheimer built on the work of others. The development of atomic power was inevitable. Oppenheimer, as a scientist, was a lone voice advocating for a serious global consideration of the future potential benefits, and horrors, of nuclear power.

[@robertpenoyer9998]

@@mangoman667 You've made an unfair comment. We were at war. Good people were being deprived, tortured, and killed in large numbers. The priority of war is victory and bringing the war to an end. Oppenheimer and his colleagues gave America a tool of war that brought that war to a nearly immediate conclusion and, in the process, saved millions more civilians and soldiers alike from suffering and dying.

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

What Teller & the others did to him; throwing him under the macarthyite juggernaut was unforgivable. A man of rare sensitivity & intellect.

[@dovbarleib3256]

Teller looked at anyone standing in the way of his H bomb as a mortal enemy. It is odd because after Germany surrendered, Teller was one of the physicists at Los Alamos who recommended caution while continuing development of the much "smaller" fission bomb!

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

@@dovbarleib3256 Not to mention his mathematics were flawed, didn't Ulam come in his office & tell him so? Not a pleasant person. Ego & spite, not a nice combination.

[@daviddavis-vanatta1017]

@@dominicseanmccann6300 Yes, true re: Ulam. Im fact, the quip in the math-physics world is that Teller is not actually the "Father of the H-bomb." Ulam is the father, because he gave Teller the seminal mathematics and solution to the problem that Teller struggled with. Ulam's idea therefore impregnated Teller's work, and so he actually became the "Mother of the H-Bomb." When I first heard this story, I laughed at the clever quip. But in time, I see it's really the more accurate truth of who was in fact the father, and who the mother, of the H-Bomb. So, OK, if it requires both a father and a mother, is Oppenheimer the rightful "Father of the A-Bomb?" If not, who is? And if so, who for the A-Bomb can make the rightful claim of motherhood?

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

@@daviddavis-vanatta1017 😀

[@kensurrency2564]

it came down to the difference in their philosophies. teller and mccarthy operated under the specter of fear, while bohr and oppenheimer were advocates of peace and love. i don’t know if it ever occurred to teller that an open world is possible.

[@edwardjones2202]

I love how at their level, Bohr can be said to have "sometimes done mathematics"

[@daviddavis-vanatta1017]

Yes, I think it is basically the quite real difference between using existing, or known, mathematics as a tool to accomplish a study into an unknown, vs. essentially creating (or discovering, we can debate that elsewhere) some new aspect of mathematics in order to solve (probably) a really tough problem. The literal invention of the imaginary number, i, might be an example of work that was actually "doing" mathematics. Bohr was much more a good user of mathematics, her could understand it well, than he was a pioneer explorer into new aspects of mathematics in order to answer some deep question, explain some phenomenon, etc. I think it's fair to say that most of his work was more in the former areas than in the latter.

[@freethomas8047]

There is something about hearing him talk that captivates.. a great man of history and importance

[@elly2154]

A man with so much money and he builds the most destructive bomb known to earth, its cruel really

[@dovbarleib3256]

He sounds like Mr Rodgers, at the frontier of Nuclear Physics.

[@bradfordmccormick8639]

A gentle man in an ungentle world.

[@ruthsikorski5495]

I like much more hearing the man than listening to others talk about him. He has great understanding and kindness in his voice.

[@carolyndewey8625]

Yes--it's one thing to hear people say "he was a charming physics professor and project leader" and another thing to be actually charmed.

[@chocolatemafia64]

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people cried, a few people laughed, most people were silent.”

[@XIAOMEICHEN-t3z]

It looks like history is created by humans, but history has been creating itself.

[@SandraKashton]

Oppenheimer died within three years of this speech. He knew the potential of his legacy creation to destroy the World and he had no control over its future use. He lived and died knowing that he had become the destroyer of worlds. A sad epitaph for one with a brilliant mind and sensitive soul.

[@stevedriscoll2539]

Yes, very sad. I think all reflective people find themselves in a laybrinth (yeah, I know I spelled it wrong) of dilemmas that involve intense struggles between personal ambition, and moral and ethical sensitivities...and, I guess, human limitations.

[@krel3358]

yeah except now its directed energy weapons, AI, and Cybernetics, so I think his soul can rest easy. Nuclear weapons are many decades out of date and of no consequence.

[@adelajasinkova262]

Some of my favorite parts: Beginning 11:00 26:19 32:00 36:20 58:50 1:08:06 + 1:09:38 + 1:10:16 1:12:47 1:14:12 His soothing, deep and calm voice saying carefully picked up words that are easy to understand, yet they all bear some importance, is a beautiful example of how people should speak, teach, present and inspire. He is funny, he is calm, he is serious, he is humble. At the end, when the thunderstorm of applause destroys your ears, you can hear how emotional and happy he is that the people understood his speech and value it. The last sentences, messages and life lessons are something that every politican/person in the world should hear. The world would've been a better place if we all did.

[@ssotkow]

He passed away three years later. His spirit and energy already depleted in 1964. Not the same charismatic speaker as he was in the past. The witch hunt hearing destroyed him.

[@owlredshift]

World would also be a better place if people stopped saying, "uhhh" "um" "like" It's SO EASY to [not] do, and for lazy people it's LESS things one 'has to do.' Give it the old college try, I say. Bad language, and using UHHH every other word are indicators that you don't have anything valuable to add. (Not you, OP/adel, just piggybacking on your comment)

[@I3loom]

@@owlredshift Listen more carefullly. Oppenheimer says it, too. It's human nature to think before (at least ideally) and while speaking. We are social animals; not word processors.

[@abenduahdesmond6725]

One of the genius minds in history. Rest in peace

[@2wayss]

Just to listen to him, gives me a lot of emotions-

[@liambartley2338]

He's simply one of the greatest American physicist, if it wasn't for his (according to Hans Bethe) "poor athematic" he could have won a Nobel Prize! He predicted the Positron, black holes and neutron stars!!

[@edwardjones2202]

What did Bethe say exactly?

[@jcreajr]

@@edwardjones2202 and then some...

[@daviddavis-vanatta1017]

That is one of the most interesting "what if ...." questions in physics. What would Oppenheimer have done in physics, for physics, but for WWII and the Manhattan Project? He was deeply interested in the 1930's work to rectify and join completely quantum mechanics and special relativity. By the late 1930's, everyone knew that this unification was the golden apple, the great secret, and what would propel physics forward for a long time to come, and without which it would remain stalled. Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga ended up with ownership of, and recognition for, the work that did this unification that we now call Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED). After some passage of time, it became clear that Freeman Dyson's name justifiably should be included with the other three for QED. But history is now history, and no one can ever know whether or not, if Oppenheimer had been able to turn his genius toward this problem, his name too, or even alone, might have been on the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics. If not, his name almost surely would have been recognized for some pinnacle in physics, for all time, rather than for a weapon that is the Vishnu-Shiva "Destroyer fo Worlds."

[@mattmarkus4868]

He's considered by some super smart nobel prize winning physicists as the smartest man alive.

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Thanks for posting this memorable lecture.

[@UCLADrasninArchive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Ericwest1000]

This is an amazingly profound speech by J. Robert Oppenheimer. I am reminded, again, of how tragic that Franklin Roosevelt's sudden death in February 1945 - was for both Americans and for the future of the World. Truman was a piker. Rest in peace, Niels Bohr and J. Robert Oppenheimer. (As Oppenheimer has said "The physicists have known sin." What an understatement...

[@mikloslojko2457]

FDR's sudden death happened in April 45. Otherwise spot on.

[@ionian1973]

Amazing how the entire time he speaks you could hear a pin drop. You'd think he was talking to a room of 6 people. At the end, when the audience launches into applause, it's amazing to hear how packed the room actually is and how quickly they launch into thunderous applause. Very impressive. Good luck today getting a room of college kids to give you that kind of attention!

[@russellmakar579]

Works both ways, good luck getting professors like Oppenheimer or Feynman today.

[@andrewdeen1]

***** I recently watched a Noam Chomsky lecture and the audience baffled me in more ways than one. Not exactly like this or the Feynman messenger lectures - same fedoras, but back then "hats off" was more than an expression apparently.

[@WashingtonMonster86]

***** Not to take away from oppy, but I think the silence was more of a symptom of times. People listened, respected, had a natural curiosity for the esoteric science, and most importantly, were patient to a lecturer.

[@WashingtonMonster86]

***** Now you can't talk and gather thoughts simultaneously or people think your dumb, or boring. I'll point to the trend in youtube videos snipping dead space out of lectures for proof.

[@oomahuntressprotectress848]

Russ Makar good like getting professors, not, like, Oppenheimer or Feynman

[@theclassypenguin88]

Awesome. I love hearing him talk.

[@MistressGlowWorm]

I love your photo. My favorite of him.

[@moinmoin1293]

Elizabeth, I keep seeing comments from you all over the places I go. You seem to love Oppenheimer just as much as I do.

[@MistressGlowWorm]

That would be an understatement 💕

[@moinmoin1293]

Hehehe ;-) I`m also a woman by the way (I know my name is misleading). Amazing how he is still able to charm us after his death.

[@MistressGlowWorm]

Such a beautiful man and a gentle soul. Such depth in his beautiful blue eyes.

[@jpotter2086]

On my birthday! And just an hour away! .... 13yrs before I was born :D

[@winnieblews]

That round of applause at the end was staggering. You can truly tell at this time in his life he was treasure by many, hated, feared by the media and the establishment. He was a true visionary.

[@January.]

*treasured

[@truthseekertree]

Visionary? No. There r kind humans who r visionary. He was a psychopath

[@neilreid2298]

Reading his biography. What a giant.

[@DamjanPlamenac]

The ending makes me cry (Sherwin version)

[@jacobpike5661]

You can hear Oppenheimer's voice crack @39:43, after the long pause, as he refers to "the development of the bomb." Twenty years on and his conscience never rested.

[@yankumar5280]

thanks for sharing UCLACommStudies

[@flyjet787]

Very moving.

[@jeromeblanchet3827]

Cillian Murphy finding his Oppenheimer's voice will be harder than Heath Ledger finding the Jocker's voice.

[@guitarista67]

Who cares?

[@narunatsu1]

I think Cillian is a perfect casting choice. He can do different voices very well and he has similar looks. When I read the bio I couldn't imagine anybody else as Oppie, than cillian

[@jqyhlmnp]

@@themovingforestWho cares?

[@themovingforest]

@@jqyhlmnp diminished intellects definitely won't

[@chronicallygilliann]

He did that 💯

[@sunnysideamps]

We lost a good one when we lost Oppie. He got the shaft...so sad.

[@KpxUrz5745]

His is the face of pure intelligence. It's as close as we get.

[@emaria7244]

I cried when I listened to this. What they did to this brilliant soul was horrible. Rest In Peace

[@thelonespeaker]

what did they do?

[@jefflyon2020]

@@thelonespeaker As i understand regarding J Robert Oppenhiemer was that immediatley following the end of the Mannhatten project the group of great minds at Los Alamos was split into two camps with most regretting and condemning the use of the atomic bomb, and Edward Teller (working with Stanislaw Ulam) especially, advocating the "super"...or, thermonuclear two stage bomb to be developed with unlimited yield poetential ,and more efficient A.S.A.P before the Soviets got crackin and finished the RDS-6 "layercke, or sloyka" weapon.Then, the infamous and evil "comittee against unamerican actions", or whatever they were called started to make life hard for Oppy,Branding him publically him a commie and yanking his security clearance., and in turn he sorrowfully gave them names (i think,sorry if i am wrong)...which furthur created friction and unhappiness ( he was a sensitive man),and the rest of his life struggled with decisions made during wartime with his excellent work as lead scientist on the atomic bomb project during second world war. Hope i didnt make a fool of myself trying to answer your question. (Dr. Oppenhiemer was a amazing speaker, not any sort of a orator, or politician, but honest and engaging in my opinion.

[@kw7807]

@@thelonespeaker black balled him

[@kw7807]

no they blackballed him. Oppie was not a sociopath at all.

[@emaria7244]

@RED PILL PORTAL no I do not think he was.

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

Might not have been the most socially adept and friendly guy but his intelligence is unrivalled and you can tell when he respects someone he holds them in high regard

[@January.]

*regard

[@numbersix8919]

@@January. Nobody uses this word correctly anymore.

[@bobbowie5334]

Amazing archive. We literally are listening to the dulcet voice of the *God of Destruction.*

[@7landentertainment281]

a voice of salvation for millions. He ended a war that killed over 70M people, it was a numbers thing. The invasion of Japan would of killed hundreds of thousands on both sides.

[@tonymarchant2860]

God of destruction seems a term too far

[@bobbowie5334]

@@tonymarchant2860 His own quote.

[@tonymarchant2860]

@@bobbowie5334 a bit harsh o himself

[@daviddavis-vanatta1017]

@@tonymarchant2860 That he was,. Very much so.

[@justsaiyansteve]

Such in depth analysis of other people. Amazing.

[@christinemartin63]

Good God ... I will remember this world-weariness in his voice for as long as I live.

[@jerrypolverino6025]

A truly great individual and humanitarian.

[@ttrestle]

Best Mr. Rogers speech I’ve ever heard.

[@theswampfox9584]

I was thinking the same thing when I started listening to him 😂

[@hamzamahmood9565]

Who's here after watching the absolute masterpiece that was Oppenheimer????

[@markcook3570]

Before to get to know some base line facts and to familiarize myself with his accomplishments early in his life. Impressive indeed...

[@censortube3778]

The 1980 BBC series Oppenheimer with Sam Waterson ? Yes !

[@sophiewooloo]

god that applause at the beginning 😭🥺❤

[@deborrastrom8559]

He talks like & reninds me of Mr. RODGERS > who was also a well spoken & witty man with deeper intelligence than he would speak of. > Our ability to hear Oppenheimer speak so elequently is a miracle. It gives us a deeper understanding of the man & seriousness of his own research. Thanks for this posting. 🎉❤😢 Very inspiring 👏.

[@sifuslimwellness5735]

A brilliant feat was witnessed in Oppie's responses to his opposition's attorney. The brilliant and brutal attorney Roger Robb, "an experienced prosecutor in Washington," had practiced his cross examination after listening to illegally taped conversations of Opie and his attorney. So, even with a complete understanding of Oppie's defense and inner thoughts, Robb was unable to deny Opie's intellect from rising to the occasion to create insightful remarks on a number of occasions. Though his security clearance loss was to begin his national and emotional downfall, Oppie, a very strange fusion of psychological shortcomings and scientific (linguistic, intellectual, and many other realms) brilliance, still impresses us to this day.

[@pawelsawicki1750]

What a great lesson of history, humanity and burden of responsibility

[@jarrodyuki7081]

nope he should be glad we can finally end humanity. the world is not for humans to share it belongs to psychopaths.

[@japan906]

That is a beautiful reflection and delivery of humility and humanity. Thank you.

[@kantizalavadia9874]

A lot refered Mr. Rogers will be forgotten may be in decade but Mr Oppenheimer will be remembered at least for another century.

[@mariatoth2242]

So wise and eloquent ❤

[@maryfitzpatrick2738]

Wow he even bears a resemblance to Cillian or visa versa but it’s almost erie. Can’t wait to see this❤❤

[@saggusings]

Yes, he did great things. But here he is just a man who is remembering his friend. This is very much a eulogy or an act of grieving for the death of his friend. Beautifully done, but quite saddening. Life is a bird song, after all.

[@nikitachaykin6774]

Happy to hear that Kapitsa was mentioned so warmly.

[@TomNovak2113]

It's sad he isn't as remembered for what he probably feels was his great contribution to the sciences -- and certainly cosmologists agree -- and that was first discussing the idea of "black holes" being real and a legitimate end for massive stars. He followed Einstein & Schrodinger's math and made the assertion they never did.

[@yankeeskunkee8519]

I think it is much sadder for all of the lives lost because of the war pigs. You have very twisted priorities imho. Get well soon!

[@gregparrott]

This is Intense. I knew Oppenheimer was very disturbed about the creation of 'The Bomb', His reservations lead to false suspicions of him being a communist and very unjust treatment of him after WWII. But I have never heard of Bohr's views, let alone how they would influence Oppenheimer's views

[@buckhorncortez]

You need to read more about the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer was a willing and enthusiastic participant. You misunderstand his background. In the 1930's he was a member of a Communist Party front organizations and both his wife (in the 1930's) and his brother were members of the Communist Party USA. In fact, Leslie Groves had to personally intervene and direct the FBI to ignore his past associations in order to get him a clearance to work at Los Alamos. This can hardly be categorized as "false suspicions" unless you're tying to make him a victim of something other than the life choices he made.

[@gregparrott]

@@buckhorncortez That does add context. Thanks for the historical perspective. And yet, unlike Fuchs. Oppenheimer stayed true to the project to the very end. He never betrayed the country and earned better treatment than he received in return.

[@buckhorncortez]

@@gregparrott I know for a lot of people, they think he was somehow duped into working on the atomic bomb. He wasn't. By October of 1942, he had spent at least a year working on fast neutron interactions which are critical for atomic bomb theory. He also contributed $1,000 a year ($18,000 in 2020) to the Communist Party starting in the late 1930's (probably 1937), and ceased contributions in 1942. The money was supposed to be for use by the rebels in the Spanish Civil War. When confronted with the fact that the money may not have been used for that purpose, his response was, "I never thought of that." For a guy who was as intelligent as Oppenheimer, he often proved he wasn't very smart about making life choices.

[@gregparrott]

​@@buckhorncortez Back in 1937, helping the Spanish was arguably a good cause, as the communists were the only ones actively fighting the fascists, specifically Mussolini and Hitler. Mussolini sent in ~50,000 troops along with thousands of tons of weapons. In 1937, Hitler's Luftwaffe used Guernica to test aerial bombardment strategies and used his transport planes to fly in proxy fighters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica Prior to WWII, I doubt communism had the same connotation that it does today.

[@LinasVepstas]

Well, don't lose track of the fact that he lead the project. Yet, in some ways, the development of it was inevitable. If he'd walked away, and not participated, someone else would have done that work. It would have been built. When you're in a situation like that: it will happen with you or without you, and you know you have the ability and talent to do it, its very hard to say no. Here, the moral issues were epic in proportion. You're fighting the war on the side of the good guys, and your creating a weapon of mass destruction. To be in this position and to remain stout and resolute ... Ooof.

[@bm-wt3zf]

Listening to great minds.. is awesome..we have learned so little

[@ghostbuster_winchester]

I feel like I would have learned quite a lot from a good long conversation with Oppenheimer. I find we have similar traits and he was a genius, we would have had so much to talk about.

[@scratchdog2216]

Read 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tradgedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer' by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

[@mikkokarkkainen2807]

It is a very good book indeed

[@daviddavis-vanatta1017]

@@mikkokarkkainen2807 I second that quick book review. It is a superb book on Oppenheimer and his work, and the time he lived in. Kai Brd was an undergrad classmate of mine.

[@ghostbuster_winchester]

Reading it right now!

[@MichaelDouglas-lr9ej]

Wow, he truly was a visionary of his time. He even had the foresight to warn everyone that the Barbie movie must be watched after his future biopic movie.

[@halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

There’s a Mr. Rogers quality to the sound of his voice…to me

[@zoozolplexOne]

just think it is the sixties when he is deilvering this talk !!!

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

As Oppy talks I am immediately fitted to think of Niels being like Geoffry Hinton today. Struggling against a tone of misunderstanding to a light guiding his path no one could see.

[@Americangirl1991]

I like listening to him speak ❤️

[@dovbarleib3256]

He is/was Mr. Rogers at the frontier of Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Physics with a great capacity for leading a widely diverse group of scientists to achieve an objective. The Nobility of his purpose for that objective became more tarnished after it was put to use. And he knew that early on.

[@areirving]

Yes, even the quality of his speech/elocution is remarkably like Mr. Rogers'

[@inesborstel5592]

THANKS!!

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

All the mens involved in the development and realization of the bomb, talked and wrote in a far ''discrete'' manner of having no responsibility at all while being actively involved in it: or they did it all toghether, or nobody did something. It just ''happened''. Calling Oppenheimer the father of the bomb is unfair, and understanding that in wartimes no warm heart is allowed and the urge of blaming someone indirectly (the soviets), seemed to be the major goal than to develop the bomb itself. Fear of the soviets was the trigger to test the bomb on populations. Bohr wasn't intended for political actions, but human action. Politics and leaders have no human interest while being on war. Things are done.

[@davidstokar887]

Amazing speaker

[@rlinmt]

This is the modern day Gettysburg address

[@micsunday14]

Magnificent.

[@orientbeachbum8346]

I heard some years ago that Oppenheimer was a very intense guy who did everything as if he were killing snakes. In other words, that he was so quick he'd seem almost impulsive, like an athlete. Listening to him here, he doesn't seem anywhere near as intense as I've heard.

[@shobhakumari6523]

I have read through mainstream media he had Depression,mental issues,attacking aggressive,met Therapist,etc.Hearing him in this Lecture total opposite He is Someone Genius,Thoughtful,calm & Honest person.

[@TheWorldsTraveler]

He had that reputation when he was younger, certainly. By all accounts he mellowed out when he got older.

[@jgalway]

I'm sure he spoke to his peers differently. More of a "you should know better" tone.

[@ImBarl]

that is simply just not the case brother

[@MistressGlowWorm]

Symptoms do mellow over time. Sometimes the Intellectuals are too far ahead of the Emotionals. In time one catches up to the other.

[@curtneilson5502]

wow, the applause is emotionally moving. imagine today, some loons would throw cranberry juice on him and call him a murderer. oh UCLA, the height from which thou hast fallen.

[@francesco7168]

Anyone else thinks Oppenheimer sounds like Mr. Rogers? Like the tone, cadence, and emphasis...it's scary!

[@rblauson]

A lot of people don’t understand without this man and the success of the Manhattan project, the US would have invaded mainland Japan and likely lost 1 million men. As bad as Hiroshima / Nagasaki were- ( and Oppenheimer understood this ) it was better than the alternative of an invasion of Japan. He saved many many many American soldiers from certain death.

[@nickborquez9468]

In that scenario, do you think that the Soviets would have invaded from the north and Japan would have eventually been divided in two like Korea? It seems to me that many more lives would have been lost under a communist North Japan as well.

[@rblauson]

@@nickborquez9468 perhaps but we’ll never know. The Soviet’s were definitely on our heels and Stalin was as much an imperialist as he was unpredictable.

[@rblauson]

@@nickborquez9468 perhaps but we’ll never know. The Soviet’s were definitely on our heels and Stalin was as much an imperialist as he was unpredictable.

[@sob5607]

Who else came cz they heard Cillian Murphy is going to play him?

[@1-0-9]

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds." Robert Oppenheimer

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

He was quoting from the Hindu Bhagvad Gita. Vishnu .

[@jonathanlister5644]

Dear God Almighty, not only did they have to solve the problems of nuclear physics but they had to try to subtly slap them out of their political dreams into the actuality of modern political philosophy. I'm a physicist I know all about the development of the physics but This shocked me!

[@lawrencetate145]

It doesn't surprise me at all that Oppenheimer sounds a little bit like Mr. Fred Rogers.

[@oldsachem]

I'm an old man. In my long life I've never heard anyone say this, and I've never thought of this till now, but if the Soviets and the Russians had not conguered the Germans on the East in 1945, we, the US, would have nuked the Germans in Berlin or in the Ruhr. Think about it. How different the world would be.

[@paulhofmann3798]

I wonder how this realization would change German politics right now in the context of Ukraine war.

[@markdouglas8073]

And if Stalin had not forced communism upon Eastern Europe, we might not have had the Cold War. But Stalin was Stalin, Mao was Mao, and North Korea is still hermetically sealed in a hyper-idolatrous cult of communist lies claiming the USA is their sworn enemy, and Kim has now developed multiple warheads with increasing ability to hit the USA.

[@albanyorganics3030]

Japan would have won in the Pacific. We couldn't make enough uranium for more than the two bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Tellers hydrogen bomb was still years away.

[@paulhofmann3798]

@@albanyorganics3030 wed onto know that for a fact. There are some that claim after the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan, the Japanese would have capitulated. I guess we don’t know.

[@howl_with_the_wolves]

Oppenheimer was no communist though he dated a women who was,very brilliant man obviously,however,I'm struck by how much he sounds like Dr.Strangelove from Kubrick's movie,my guess is Sellers based strangelove on Oppenheimer.

[@dandiaz19934]

Maybe this will explode, give that they are filming the Oppenheimer movie on site.

[@owlredshift]

A lesson to all the zoomers that say UHH and UM and LIKE every other word; who are afraid to leave even a split second open to silence instead, lest they be talked over or lose the attention of the listener. This eloquent, transatlantic voice that everyone adores is truly gone forever, lost to the likes of Chinese apps that somehow encourage users to speed up everything to chipmunk speeds and jump cuts to keep your attention and click bait and lifted pick up trucks without mufflers.

[@FloyDJode]

Clap for the weapons manufacturer 👏

[@Georgann-x3l]

Will be interesting to see if they get his voice right,❤🦋🙏🏻

[@sscstudent4064]

Good work

[@somewhere6]

This man is clearly under stress/depressed. It is all over his voice. Understandable given his recent experience.

[@SA-ff9uc]

He was always depressed.

[@landedinlukla]

Wow. Next to Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Malcolm Gladwell, I can listen to this man forever

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Malcolm Gladwell😂

[@211212112]

Reading about how he socialized with his students was interesting. He was kinda of a little higher class Feynman before Feynman.

[@luismanuel2612]

I got the impression that when Oppenheimer was talking about Bohr, he might have been referring to himself, his own experiences, and his ideas...

[@jlmurrel]

There's a somnambulistic aspect to his pattern of speech. He sounds pedantical, detached and depressed. An intellectual, yet a man who was probably autistic.

[@사막여우88]

He's the standing God who brought the power to human to eliminate themselves.

[@twistedoperator4422]

Interesting tick he had with mhmmmhm

[@paulhofmann3798]

It’s his way to release tension. Sometimes it makes sense in the context as if he is laughing about his own words.

[@ghostbuster_winchester]

It's kind of soothing almost, it nakes his speech sound way gentler for some reason

[@waynzignordics]

I was wondering to myself if Oppenheimer would boycott speaking at what has become of UCLA today, then realized he'd never be invited. '64 was just about when the disease first took root at universities across the country, too, so well done on the timing.

[@iamhanat6135]

Robert Oppenheimer 1964

[@iloveamerica1966]

3:58 did anyone else catch the em-hmmm as he was concluding his paragraph on Bohr's family? It sounded just like the guy in Sling Blade who would say em-hmmm after almost each sentence. 4:58 "young philosopher hmm" 5:57 ..."purpose hm" 8:09 "...it _was_ wrong hm" Just interesting. I'm sure there's a name for this affectation...OCD perhaps? Billy Bob Thornton ..."the way he talks em-hmmm." kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3bchGOFatqDqbMm34s Mind you that Thornton allegedly observed someone / many IOT to create Karl's voice manner. (Feel like I'm talking to an empty auditorium, here. Who else will ever see this comment?)

[@--Skip--]

I just chalked his hmmm's to nervousness due to the distinguish crowd he was lecturing to. UCLA ain't PodunkU.

[@stanlee2200]

I reckon I like mustard and biscuits...mmhm and I tinker around with thermonuclear bombs mmmmmm...I like the way you talk

[@aimee-lynndonovan6077]

He died of throat cancer a few years later, all that nicotine. So I suppose that was part of the affectation also.

[@kforest2745]

Haven’t heard a discussion about bigger picture and awards. Recall an actor did. Someone said in so many words it meant nothing to their ego to win recognition and have their name plastered everywhere they didn’t give a damn about special and manipulative organizations demanding infinite score

[@gabbyhyman1246]

He sounds like Peter Lorre!

[@birdman4274]

I thought the mafia had entered the room when the applause started at the beginning 😂😂

[@kenw8875]

brilliant presentation. economy of verbiage and colorful storymanship. mandatory audio content before the 21 Jul launch of “Oppenheimer”. am certain Nolan hit a super grandslam! 🚀 🔥

[@brianbozo2447]

For a person who worked in a rigorous factual based field of study, he also appears to have a real interest in people and their lives. The periodic " hmm" expressions suggest a possible vocal tic or tourette feature.

[@nickborquez9468]

You’re right. In the book American Prometheus it is mentioned that Oppenheimer had verbal tics when he gave lectures.

[@SA-ff9uc]

Professor Frink.

[@ghostbuster_winchester]

I am 99% sure the man was autistic. Explains the genius, the tics, and the social struggles.

[@briguy4781]

Talks exactly like Mr Rogers

[@BraderGeoYT]

Years later, he now has a movie played by Cillian Murphy

[@billofrightsamend4]

Dempster and other scientists deserve credit, Oppenheimer didn't build this thing by himself.

[@alamedavigilante]

Not bad for a man already dying of throat cancer.

[@doranosaurus1415]

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a neighborly day for a neighbor...

[@dianahohimer1107]

Lol I was thinking the same.

[@Anthony-er9sb]

He was really full of regret in his voice reely a wonderful human being there was lots of people in on it and didnd feel regret he did and the movie will spread a message around the world to us all about the danger of the atomic bomb s in the hands of stupid people

[@csibesz07]

Yet explain how he rejected to sign, and convinced others not to sign the letter that was sent by scientists to not use atomic bomb on civilians?