The Day After Trinity (1981)

Frank Oppenheimer: Self

Quotes 

• Frank Oppenheimer : [on Hiroshima]  The first reaction was, "Thank God it wasn't a dud." But before the whole sentence of that broadcast was finished, one suddenly got this horror of all the people that had been killed. And I don't know why - up to then I don't think I'd really thought of all those flattened people. We talked often about having a demonstration where there weren't people. Maybe on the mainland so that the military would see it, but where there weren't people. And then the thought that they had actually dropped it on a place where all those people were and the image of those people, which came before any pictures of it, really was pretty awful. But the first thing was, I'm sure, "Thank God it worked."

• Frank Oppenheimer : [on Trinity]  I wish I could remember what my brother said, but I can't. But I think we just said "It worked." I think that's what we said, both of us. "It worked."