To everyone complaining about the inauthentic and implausible audio, I'd like to point out that the much more historically accurate, "slide whistle, wet fart, gong" sound effect sequence was copyrighted.
Drones were used in Upshot Knothole in 1953 as well. Who were the drone pilots and what units were they assigned to ? How many pilots were trained in drone operations for these tests? The mother ships were T-33 twin seaters, so that one could pilot the Mother ship and the other could fly the drone.
It was the largest man made explosion in all of human history at that point by an astronomical margin, and the movie Oppenheimer somehow found a way to make it look small.
So about 1000 nukes detonated in nevada and 100 or so in the pacific. I get testing to ensure designs work etc... but anyone else get the feeling that the majority were done just because?
My grandfather was a valet at a strip casino back then and when he found out I was doing a paper on the impact of atmospheric testing he told me about the parties held by casinos to "Watch the giant mushrooms grow". When I realized he was serious my Jaw dropped
32 seconds; 346 m/s; 3517.06 ft away.....there's probably a lot more affecting the speed of sound here, but the fact that we're even in the ball park of LESS than 1 mile from a nuclear detonation?
Please people understand something Oppenheimer (the movie) is not a movie about the BOMB, is not a movie about NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, is a movie, as the name says, about THE MAN i read the book also, they barely mention the trinity experience The idea of the movie is to show, to picture how it was for oppenheimer, what he was feeling etc And ALSO, these footages are WAY closer to the bomb than the scientists were, and therefore, saw the explosion I think the movie shows “sort of” the explosion in the same way many of them “sort of saw” But could be a bit more interesting i agree
