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Reviewing Oppenheimer On the Anniversary of the US Dropping the A-Bomb · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your hos Alex Garrett and welcome inside to another edition of the Alex Garrett
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  Podcast Network on the Go tonight outside of Regal Cinemas with Gabby where we just
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  saw Hoppenheimer. Now you can see any of the days and it's been out.
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  You could see it next week. But today happens to be the day
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  August six, nineteen forty five, the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic
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  bomb on Hiroshima. So to see the entire history, the way it was
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  built up to this day in nineteen forty five, talk about either irony or
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  just adding to his historic nature of a day like today. And firstly,
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  I always believe it's something we should not apologize for in the sense of America
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  shouldn't have done it at all. I think that's a terrible way to approach
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  things. I think this movie comes out not only around the anniversary and on
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  the anniversary. Could see it today, but in a time where the Adam
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  bomb and the bombing of Heroshima and Nagasaki are really criticized, even by President
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  Obama back in the day, specifically in twenty fifteen. But if it did
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  not happen and America did not sort of defend itself after Pearl Harbor, even
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  though it was four years then what would that be? And this is what,
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  you know, what I think is happening today is nobody is allowed to
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  defend themselves. Daniel Penny couldn't defend the whole subway car. And it's the
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  same mentality of don't defend yourself. That is why the Adam bomb has been
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  totally and the idea of bombing Japan as we did has been totally crapped on
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  over the years here. But when you think of Appenheimer himself, see,
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  I had known that this was an underground project. I think we all did
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  the Manhattan Project. But I also started to wonder when you realize they had
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  a test as Adam Bomb before it actually you know, bombed a real city
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  in the in Japan, in the world. You're telling me this test was
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  well, it was well documented, was considered a secret test when you can
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  military see the plumes of smoke as you've seen every Adam Bomb imagery real in
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  real life. By the way, that secret, I don't know. It's
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  very weird that sort of an undetected It had to have had some reaction in
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  New Mexico, and that's the other part. But having project in Los Alamos
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  in New Mexico, and then I don't know, President Truman called Jay Robert
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  Oppenheimer a cry baby. In real life, they actually said some of these
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  things were fictionalized, but the story is true. The people that are portrayed
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  were real. And while I think Oppenheimer he did his job what he was
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  hired to do, it definitely was a US Intel government you know kind of
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  secrecy because no one was allowed to know this project was going on. No
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  one was allowed to know we were building Adam bomb. No one was allowed
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  to not even our allies, you know. Alpenheimer suggests our allies know.
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  And the whole idea of morality that was questioned not only by everybody under the
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  sun right now, but in this movie. You know, there was a
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  there was a moment in the movie that I thought when Oppenheimer says, they
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  have to have a moral advantage to this, meaning you can't just drop it
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  on a city without letting some people know. Unfortunately, going along with my
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  dad had told me from years about this Adam bomb that the Russians did have
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  intel on it because there might and then proven to be leaks from Los Alamos
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  and espionage in Los Alamos because Oppenheimer got too close to the Soviet to the
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  Communists Party and Communist sympathizers, if you will, And what I think is
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  admirable is that he didn't let that sway him to give actual leaks or give
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  actual information. I can see the criticism of having him, of him being
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  too close to the Communist Party, but at the end of the day,
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  that criticism should be overshadowed by what he did and what he accomplished. And
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  I think this movie also showed an appendeiver the idea that there was a passing
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  of the torch that Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and I you know,
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  Einstein was around back in the nineteen forties and beyond. I mean, the
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  idea of the passing of the torch from Einstein to Oppenheimer was pretty well documented
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  by Christopher Nolan and highlighted by Christopher Nolan, who did a hell of a
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  job. He actually screamwrote the play and the movie and directed it. That
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  man is talented, and the soundtrack. I mean, we were waiting for
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  the boom of the atomic bomb and the delay of that until it actually happened.
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  I mean there was so much you, so much use of the audio
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  and drum dramatics of the audio, usage of the bomb, of the music,
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  of the tracks, if you will, that you were on your edge
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  of the seat. I mean I saw people with their feet up, And
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  I think that's kind of weird because this is a serious movie about something that
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  changed the world and change America from the better. But I think that this
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  cross examination, that's the term I was thinking of. Jay Robert Oppenheimer played
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  by played by Sillian Murphy, was very very useful. And I would say,
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  you know, they're saying movies wasn't effective enough, and I would say
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  it was a very effective cross examination. But with that power that he got
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  as director of the Manhattan Project came this. I don't think he was designed
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  to do bad for the country, but it did come with enemies, and
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  well, I think it's fascinating about iron Man becoming this Lewis Strauss. See
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  some of these names were I had just really gotten a known today, But
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  Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Conference, it was a whole government initiative that
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  he had it up, played by Iron Man Robert Downey, and I thought
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  Robert Downey played a damn good role today with that, and if you've seen
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  the movie you kind of know what I'm referencing. If you haven't, I
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  say you go see Oppenheimer. It's more educational, intellectual historical than I would
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  say, Barbie, So go see Oppenheimer. Even if the anniversary did pass
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  us today, it's still indeter So I would. If you're fascinated by science,
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  if you're fascinated by physics, if you're fascinated by the history, I
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  mean, and the and the political and the sort of how we got here.
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  I think this movie and then we talk about this a lot in preserving
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  America as fabric in history. Christopher Nolan does that through this movie, and
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  he does it very well. I think he helps preserve that, Yes,
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  the Adam baumb was you know, it happened, It did good. It
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  shows that Aubanier did his job. It showed that years later the backlash caused
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  him to have enemies. Some he developed through the process of making this Adam
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  Baumb but some came after. I truly believe that someone when they realize,
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  oh wait, the public doesn't really like what we did in Nagasaki and Hero
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  or chievement, they backed away from him, and in the case of his
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  Lewis Strouss, who was I guess a Commerce depth Cabet nominee for and actually
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  this was an Eisenhower appointee in the Commerce department. So how he went from
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  science to commerce I being the head of the American Energy Commission was kind of
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  an interesting switch. And you could tell the way Nolan wrote it out the
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  way it was portrayed. Strouss wanted Jay Robert Oppenheimer out of his hairs for
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  good, so he said this whole I would say kangaroo court by the way.
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  They were so hell bent on the leaks, and the rightfully so,
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  coming from Los Alamos, because I think that Robert Appernheimer's judgment of some people's
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  character lacked. I think he didn't he trusted everybody when he really could have
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  been a little more self preservation and I would say looking up for himself more
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  and more so. But he did for the good of the project to not
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  ruffle feather. So he's trying to be standing. They'll put him in the
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  ass after. But the thing about that is they cared so much about the
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  leaks, I mean, the McCarthy era and all the blacklisting back in the
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  fifties and the forties, Why haven't we found out who leaked the Supreme Court
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  opinion on robi Wait. The opinion aside is one thing, but the leak
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  of the Court in the highest manner should be treated as if we're leaking atomic
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  bomb development secrets from Los Alamos. So I think there's a lot of tie
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  ins from then to now and question as to why when we were so protective
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  of our secrets back then. But any leak now is kind of selective if
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  they go after it or not. Right, that's how it feels. But
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  here's what Eisenhower said, and you'd say, if you've seen Oppenheimer, I'm
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  gonna extend this a little bit for you. When losing Strauss, he said,
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  I'm losing a truly valuable associate in the business of government, meaning he
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  was losing an ally that would continue the military industrial complex. That's how I
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  read it, because obviously that's what was around. That's why they wanted to
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  keep building, because they wanted to build this complex, which guy have all
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  this weaponization. And I think the fear was that you could use the atom
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  bomb once, who can use it all the time? Well, thankfully we
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  haven't seen the atom bomb we dropped anytime soon. But I couldn't help but
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  think our reaction to Pearl Harbor in nineteen forty five, on this day,
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  August sixty, and the reaction to what the Japanese did. It took a
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  few years, but they developed it, they tested it, and they did
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  it. I couldn't help but think about nine to eleven, because it did
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  take us years after nine eleven to kill Osama bin Lan. But more importantly,
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  we didn't strike that area. You know, they say all these wars
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  happen, and it's true, Iraq War and and then war in Afghanistan,
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  which we've still been reeling from, especially because of the horrible withdrawal in twenty
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  twenty one. But we never had the Adam bum effect reaction like we did
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  in nineteen forty five. And I can't help but think, is that just
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  because there has been a lessened approach in the military and advisers to the president
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  to not go after our enemies as hard anymore, we seem to not give
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  a crud you give. China sent over COVID kids, you know, from
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  the Wuhan lab, intentionally or not. But they let it to happen.
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  There's not been much reaction to that as I think people would like it to
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  be, especially those who lost family members in COVID. So the Adam bomb
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  was also a once in a lifetime thing because that was the show of America's
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  strength. And while I think we can all be very, very you know,
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  reflective on the loss that that bomb did, I think the whole negativity
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  against the atom bomb is missing the point. That was a defensive America that
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  we'll never see again, especially when you see the bidens continually, and then
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  any politician continually selling out their political soul to the enemy one way or the
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  other and not taking action, especially now, you know, with the Russia
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  Ukraine thing, and while maybe that didn't affect us, but not taking action
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  in certain parts just shows we're not that tough anymore. And that's why I
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  think there's a romantist, a romantic feeling toward the A bomb and in the
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  sense of that was America's strength right there, that we showed we could do
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  that, and we did do it, and it was because of Jay Robert
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  Oppenheimer's direction, how flawed, how wild and crazy, and you know,
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  he slept with eight communists multiple times, so his judgment wasn't always good.
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  And the whole point was, you could be a genius, but you have
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  to have some common sense and some wisdom, which it seems like Oppenheimer did
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  lack. But at end of the day, at the end of the day,
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  in August six, twenty twenty three, the anniversary of the a bomb
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  land of being dropped in Hiroshima and dropped in Nagasaki, the birthday of Gabby
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  Pisani thirty four years ago, today we can sit here and say Oppenheimer did
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  good for the country, and it's a country that needs to find that strength
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  again and show the world, hey, you give us a disease, we're
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  not gonna let that slide. You burn our bit, you throw bricks through
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  our businesses and riot, we're not gonna let that slide. That's what that
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  showed in nineteen five. And maybe maybe we're not going to get there again,
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  but it did create a new kind of energy, a calmness, if
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  you will. That's and of course out and World War two, but it
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  it just silenced the opponent, the enemy, and that's what we'll never see
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  again. Instead, we're gonna see, you know, politicians and I don't
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  want to mention any names. The Bidens saying to China and Russia, hey,
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  guess what we're gonna have the we've got with the atom bomb to the
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  Biden brand. That's how crazy it is. Okay, We've gone from dropping
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  the Adam bomb in the show of strength to dropping the Biden brand in WhatsApp
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  as a way to get money into the Biden industrial complex. I've called them
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  that multiple times and I'm sticking by the Biden industrial complex. We've gone from
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  a show of strength to a brand that has the president United States need to
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  use smaller steps. That's all you need to know about this country. Oh
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  and coke being found in the White House. That's all you need to know.
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  And damn it, I wish we showed strength again because they think,
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  you know, Russia's going after the pink. Russia and China want dominance.
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  But it was to put a kapper on this fascinating to me because see what
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  my dad had told me about the Russians getting all these secrets of the atom
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  bomb right from Los Alamos. How they did that with the bombshell. And
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  that's the last thing about this. This movie showed the atom bomb from that
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  went from the atom bomb to the bombshell hearings, crucifying what time would call
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  the father of the atomic bomb, Jay Robert Oppenhamer, and that shouldn't have
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  been So maybe we do need a little wisdom with our Genie Garrett on the
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  go outside of Regal Cinemas after this showing of Oppenheimer, go see it this
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  weekend then while it's all out, and I hope you like it. If
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  you're a history buff or even a science buff, you definitely want to check
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  it out. Have a great night. August sixth a date to remember and
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  to see Albenheimer on this date. Feel it's kind of synchroniz synchronistic. Have
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  a great night.