American machinery and men powers the drive to Berlin and victory in Europe.

美国的士兵和武器成为了攻占柏林的主力，并确保了最后在欧洲大陆的胜利

But men are still dying fighting the Japanese.

但与日本人的战斗中阵亡人数仍节节攀升

America turns to technology once again.

美国人再次寄望于科学技术

A weapon to end the war.

一个能结束战争的武器

A weapon to change the world.

一个最终将改变世界的武器

The Alamogordo Desert, New Mexico

新墨西哥州 阿拉莫戈多沙漠

July 16, 1945. 5:27 a.m.

1945年7月16日 上午5时27分

In three minutes,

再过三分钟

American technology will change the world forever.

美国科技将彻底改变世界

Robert Oppenheimer,

罗伯特·奥本海默

the theoretical physicist who loves poetry as much as science.

一位钟爱诗歌就如热衷科学的理论物理学家

The FBI would track his every move,

联邦调查局监视着他的一举一动

worried that he's a Communist...

疑心其为共产党分子

yet Oppenheimer leads the biggest scientific test in history,

但奥本海默此刻却主导着有史以来最大的科学试验

the top-secret Manhattan Project.

被列为顶级国家机密的曼哈顿计划

Theoretically, fission physics could enable enormous amounts of explosive energy to be released from a single device:

理论上 核裂变物理可以使一件单一装置产生巨大的爆炸能量

the atomic bomb.

这就是原子弹

The bomb is the most technologically advanced weapon in the world,

原子弹是世上最先进的武器

but nobody is sure whether it will work.

但没人知道爆炸是否会成功

Even many of the people who worked on the bomb itself

甚至连许多参与制造原子弹的人自己

were skeptical that the bomb would actually work.

也对试验成功持怀疑态度

No one had ever done anything like this.

这是一项史无前例的试验