maybe drop this bomb in tokyo bay, kill very few people make a hell of a demonstration, and maybe then the ferocious power of this thing. oppenheimer rejected, uh, that course, as did the planners in washington. (playful chatter) oppenheimer: we did think about whether, uh, its destructiveness, uh, its danger, uh, could be vividly demonstrated over a barren and uninhabited target, and we were very doubtful of that. very few people would have had a more thorough understanding than j. robert oppenheimer of what was about to unfold when these weapons were used in combat. oppenheimer contemplated, knowing that this destruction would be unworldly. (wind whistling softly) bird: his secretary, anne wilson, told me this story that i'm still struck by. after the trinity test, she's walking to work one day with robert. he's a few steps ahead of her, and he's suddenly muttering, "those poor little people, those poor little people." she stops him and says, "robert what are you muttering about?" and he looked at her and-and explained that, you know, the bomb was going to be used on a japanese city