THE DAY AFTER TRINITY

Produced by: Jon H. Else

The movie “the day after trinity” was made for a certain person’s life. He was a
theoretical physicist named J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie was released on
January 20, 1981. The title came from an interview seen near the conclusion of the
documentary. Robert Oppenheimer was asked about his thoughts about the urging
effort of the late president Robert F Kennedy towards President Lyndon Johnson in
initiating the stop of nuclear weapons and then on it was 20 years too late and then he
paused and responded “it should have been done the day after trinity”.

The movie was about the mind behind the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki where the nuclear testing done at trinity site Mexico in July 1945; the rise of
the Manhattan Project producing first ever nuclear weapons under the World War II. He
understands the principles of atoms and used the idea of quantum mechanics. He said
himself there is a possibility to create bombs. He thought that in order to save the
western civilization he thinks that it is necessary to create and he actually leg the
creation of atomic bombs. According to another brilliant mind Physicist Albert Einstein
confirms that it is possible to create as such.

I think that the documentary explicitly connotes the ability of Robert Oppenheimer
to initiate such actions in producing the first ever nuclear weapon. The dialogue in the
movie was simple and understandable. It was blatantly old observing the resolution of
the film. This is a documentary and the people are being interviewed and information is
well shared. There are some archival clips that were shown in the video that are actual
videos. There were symbols of the Nazis that were clipped and the mood or tone that I
as an audience felt intense about the documentary.

In my humble opinion, the making of the atomic bomb is quite inconsiderate in

the sense of how it was created. I know that the site of trinity is located in Mexico, if I am
one of the people who lived near the site I would actually feel unsecured knowing that
there are experiments which are explosive related. However, I think that the Manhattan
Project was a top secret before that made the people who might have lived near to the
site blinded to the fact that it was there all along. Another one is the bombing was not
the only way to save the western civilization and again it was inconsiderate to the part of
the Japanese who were truly a terror in that period of time, I believe that they were left
with no choice after the bombing of pearl harbor the perception of war was initiated and
the option is to bomb back.

In conclusion, this quantum mechanics that Robert Oppenheimer experimented with

atoms was a breakthrough given that the birth of nuclear weapons has begun in the
very moment. And then on, humanity is dealing with the most dangerous and
catastrophic weapon ever made. Hence, the name “the day after trinity”.