What Manhattan Project Scientists Said the Night Before Trinity Test

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July 16, 1945, marked the dawn of the Atomic Age, but the hours leading up to the detonation were filled with terror, dark humor, and profound existential dread. In the middle of the New Mexico desert, at the Jornada del Muerto, the world's most brilliant physicists huddled in bunkers as a violent thunderstorm threatened to trigger the bomb prematurely.

In this video, we explore the psychological state of the Manhattan Project scientists the night before the Trinity Test. We examine the infamous "betting pool" started by Enrico Fermi regarding whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in the atmosphere and incinerate the planet. We look at J. Robert Oppenheimer’s nervous exhaustion, George Kistiakowsky’s decision to sleep directly under the bomb tower to prove its safety against lightning, and the chilling final conversations before the countdown reached zero.

Discover what was actually said in those final hours—from technical debates to poetry recitals—before the flash that was brighter than a thousand suns changed warfare forever.

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